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Apparently it’s World Soil Day (or was, just missed by a few minutes) so here’re my soil-based books.

Publication 494 Ontario Soils- Physical, Chemical and Biological Properties and Soil Management Practices from the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food

Soil Management- Best Management Practices from the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture Food and Rural Affairs.

Ok I didn’t realize these two books were so localized, also the books are oriented for those heavy in the agricultural business (so mentioning the of certain machinery and practices which a common gardener wouldn’t use), however much of the information they have is applicable to those who want to learn about soil. 

THE GREAT BOOK MIGRATION- *bricked*

It is SO DAMN NICE to have a tall enough wall to actually be able to put my books in a legitimate bookshelf against the wall.

I’ve shown you the plant/gardening book collection in the past, but here’s a revisit, with them moved into some “new” shelves (they were used for video cassettes in the living room before) along with all the other books that I have in my book-hoarding claws. With the house addition, I get to take over the new basement as my new bedroom to settle into eventually, so we got ahead of the game and got the books moved down there. I just realized there’s one plant book out of the shot; a tall book on roses that’s put on top of the shelves due to its dumbly huge size, but I think most of you can just use your imagination to put it in the archive of books.

The amount of unread novels/manga should make it apparent as to why I haven’t been buying or wishing for any books anymore (that is, unless they’re new plant reference books), cause my novel devouring is sadly not what it used to be, I do however plan to fix that once I move into the new bedroom as the new shelving makes it less messy/dangerous to un-shelve books for casual reading.

EDIT- also realized I got part of the plant section highlighting wrong but it’s a small bit of that so it can be overlooked *had already deleted the source file I was using for this*

First Houseplant rebloomings
Photographed November 31st 2017

Schlumbergera truncata and Clivia minata did a rush of floral growth since their new room finally got heating for the winter. Funnily the S. truncatas I have began their flower openings around American Thanksgiving (making them for once live up to their common name of Thanksgiving Cactus, normally mine bloom around January), though the yellow flowered form took the lead/show of them all. Sadly there will not be any red Schlumbergera flowers this year as it was one of the few plants that perished from the previous neglect drought. I’m going to have to keep track of what other floral forms have perished before I begin to replace them. I’m nonetheless happy that at least the yellow form is doing well, especially when you consider the fact that it was once considered a far less vigorous colour form/hybrid in the indoor garden market.