Job woes

Blooming cocktail vodka begonia

As many others in the world I have having job issues. I've been unemployed for half a year. I can't find anything and have applied to a million places! I had I guess a job for a few weeks but it was a very uncomfortable situtation. I was taking photographs of houses but it wasn't for a real estate company. Stray dogs would always find me and one day I was pounded on by a way to friendly great dane. Home owners didn't like me because I was taking pictures of their house and they are not selling it. It just felt like I was in danger out walking the streets, stray dogs, and doing something that make me feel like a criminal. Besides that no go at jobs. I applied and called to every garden center, wholesale nursery, anything that I could find to deal with plants. Either no one was hiring or I just didn't get hired. Not only that I never get interviewed. I'm doomed with the no experience. My volunteering and going to school just doesn't cut it.

In January I thought for sure I found something. Just doing plant merchandising but it payed decent, would give me something to say I've had experience with plants, is temporary and close to my house. I thought I was golden! Until now I'm still waiting to start and there have been major communication lacking. The manager says family problems and I really do want to believe him really. But I'm running low and money and need a job SOON! Supposedly I'm supposed to start training next week....we'll see. I'm hoping the one garden center that is hiring will call me for an interview and hire me. I've applied to them before and called them several times expressing my interest. So if by friday I don't hear from them it's a no go. They won't pay as much as the other place but that's even if I ever start working there.

Why is it so hard to find a job? I know it's not really the season for there to be jobs. It seems that everyone wants to work with plants. I was told 30+ applications were handed in to that garden center to be reviewed. That is me up against 30 people who I'm sure have had more experience with plants then I have had.

Today for my herbaceous plants class we are going to a TNLA (Texas Nursery and Landscape Associate) meeting about plant nutrition in the greenhouse, nursery and turf. Hopefully I will meet some people who can be my contacts. I'm excited...plus there is free food!

Seedlings!

Seed Flat with seeds planted

Yesterday I mentioned I planted all the seeds I had and had some sprouting. Well here is my seed flat and the sprouting seeds! I shouldn't have planted them all in one flat because some I believe need a different growing temperature. I just didn't have enough soil to fill up another flat. Shame on me. But I was able to save half of the packages of most of my seeds just in case these do not take off. Here is the list of what I planted in this flat:
Osteospermum African Moon
Gaillardia Razzle Dazzle Mix
Orchid Mist Cascade Petunia *used all those tiny little specks of seeds!*
Delphinium Summer Blue
Parsley Big Mountain
Gazania Kiss Rose
Laurentia axillaris Blue Stars
Nemesia Mello Red and White


The Osteospermum African Moon sprout


3 sprouts coming up of the Gaillardia Razzle Dazzle Mix. These photos were from yesterday and they are bigger today.


One pale yellow sprout of the Gazania Kiss Rose.

Of course I hope that more do sprout up soon. Today while checking the pot that has the stock and sweet pea seeds I noticed some new different sprouts. So I was right and the ones that sprouted before where stock and today there are sweet pea sprouts!


Stock Tudor sprouting up in pot with sweet peas *not yet showing in this pic*.

Green Thumb Sunday Reds

Coleus

Things have been starting to grow. The weather has been warm so my plants have been starting to come alive again. Now I can finally put the small plants I have in peat pots outside day and night.

Just last week I planted all the seeds I had bought a few months ago. The Osteospermum African Moon, Gaillardia Razzle Dazzle, Stock Tudor, and another plant have started to sprout.


Cocktail Vodka Begonia

Yesterday I bought some pots to replant plants into. The cocktail vodka begonias survived great outside and all 4 of those are now planted in a large container. My mint got put in a larger pot it was seriously rootbound. The corkscrew vine got planted into a larger container because it needs to grow and expand and had roots coming out the bottom of the peat pot. I'm excited that the corkscrew vine has survived now I can only hope it does well outside. The previous corkscrew vine that I left outside through the frost has started to grow very well. I had repotted the ill corkscrew vine in hopes that it would heal it's self up. It had come down with something because of the water lodged soil that it was planted in. Really I thought it would not make it and just die but it's starting to strengthen back up. There are more plants I need to repot to a larger container. I've ran out of soil though and need to go buy more before I do that.


Red and Green Coleus

Green Thumb Sunday



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