Gardening - not just for home!

We have cats.  Two of them, in fact.  And these cats aren't fond of plants.  As such, I can't keep any plants at home, so I keep my plants at work instead!  Last Friday, I brought in the unused half of our computer desk and set it up so I could get all the plants off the windowsills and the various stands coworkers have donated.

Various plants on the desk, aloes below it, and fuschias off to the right.

Aloes!  The large one on the right came from Mom's aloe, which she's had for as long as I can remember.  It's sprouted another baby, and the other pots originated from this plant as well - on the top is Kim's, and to the left is one for our former landlord, which is now sprouting a baby of its' own!

L-R: Striped spider plant, ; the top of "Princess", now dubbed Princess Two, a parrot's beak; Kim's donkey's tail; Princess, the original parrot's beak; and a normal, solid green spider plant.

A bit of history on these guys:  The striped spider plant came from one plant downstairs here at work.  Princess the parrot's beak and the donkey tail both came from an event here at work, in which our greenhouse brought plants to teach us about propagation by cuttings.  Princess got pretty tall, so when she sent out a side shoot that started flowering, I lopped off her head and planted it in another pot (to try to discourage any more upward growth from putting her further off balance).  I named her Princess because she was very wilty when I got her, but she spruced right up if she had a semi-opaque bag over her to great a humid little greenhouse; whenever I took the bag off, she'd wilt again until I put it back on.  She eventually hardened sufficiently to no longer need the bag, which has now been pressed into service as Princess Two displays the same neediness.  The solid green spider plant came from a silent auction fundraiser at a previous employer.

Princess Two

Princess

Two fuschias, picked up for free - bonus spider mites included!  I'm still battling the mites, which infected Princess for a time and resulted in two other plants meeting their untimely demise: a kalanchoe and a Welsh onion, who were too infested to surive (and the onion is the suspected source of these little buggers).  So this is Mite Villa, and the fuschias can join the others once they get a clean bill of health.

I'm not currently growing any edibles at work - that's what the garden at home is for!

Peas behind the pumpkins

Two huge pumpkin plants

Red Acre cabbage

Potatoes in flower, then more cabbage, then another pumpkin

Carrots in back, then beets, then yet two more pumpkins

I want to save all the seeds from the peas that came from the seeds we planted last year, and this time I'll store them correctly - they sat in a pie tin in a window all winter, and still managed to grow, so proper storage should really help!!!  Then there are about 14 more feet of double-planted peas for us to enjoy - and some are ready for harvest.  The potatoes have been quite successful at out-competing the weeds, and the beet tops have made a few wonderful salads!

Greenhouse photos to come - our cukes are producing!!!