Welcome!!!

If you stumbled among this site, "Evelyn’s Twigs, Thyme and Stranger Things Gardens" is a collection of journal entries that I have kept on my computer for years, and have now decided to post. The journal contains my successes and failures with my favorite selections of plants. I'm talking about more than 50 years of caring for and living with green things. Not everything is here. More of it is learned and store in my head. However, here I will share facts about each plants, my research, as well as my personal and gathered tips on their care. I was not planning to post my houseplant and backyard journals online, so editing them for errors was not a priority to me. This being the case, perhaps, one day I will correct all the spelling and grammar errors in both of them. We would not want people to think I did not know better, when I was only being lazy. Again, no apologizes. It is what it is for now.

Saturday, April 11, 2026

Raising of the Center Light Tubes

Because the lettuce plants have grown so tall that they grew up and around the 7 inch height area of the light tubes, I raised the center light tubes on the homemade hydroponic light center that I created last month. While the plants has already grown enough to supply us with two salads and topping for sandwiches, they are still quite young and will grow fuller and taller in time. At the same time though, some of the onions and chives plants are growing; however, they look weak and thin. Even so, they are said to mature in 85 to 90 days. Perhaps by then they will look like the effort of planing and nurturing the seeds.



This bottom photo is of a small planter of grass for cats. It is super easy to grow and Sam (our cat) loves it. I am happy with it too because this Cat Grss Plus stops Sam from chewing on my other plants and then voniting. The sense of the grass draws him to it like magnet, and he eats some each morning without vomiting. He has already learned that he can eat without being shouted at.

Cat Grss Plus controls hairballs, has wheat that acts an anti-inflammatory, and improves cats digestion and metabsm systems.