Pandemic Garden Club
May. 8th, 2020 07:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
scrubjayspeaksWelcome to the May edition of Pandemic Garden Club! Growing good things in strange times!
Anyone is welcome to comment with what they're growing right now, things they would like to try, problems they're encountering, and questions they have. Share resources, answer questions, shout encouragement.
As for myself...
The butterfly garden (so named because it started as a focus on pollinator-friendly plants and is now technically just the "bonkers mass of flowering stuff" garden)is doing amazingly well. I was late in planting my seeds because, while the winter was comparatively mild, it didn't get consistently warm enough until very late, and then it immediately started raining for weeks. Hopefully, we won't now get so hot that everything stalls out and fails to bloom. For now, though, so many plants are coming up.
I'm particularly pleased because there are a bunch of California poppies coming up, and those seeds were actually three years old and I really didn't expect them to germinate. It has created a small dilemma, though--I...might...need to thin some of the plants???
I don't know how to cope with this possibility. I don't have the heart to pull any of them up! But they're so crowded! And, not incidentally, so unevenly distributed. I somehow ended up choosing lots of plants with exceptionally small seeds and I clearly did a terrible job of dispersing them.
Not so with the vines, at least! I planted them around the tree trunk, which this year has been fortified with a loose structure of chicken wire, so they'll have something to grow up. I have several types of morning glory and one of moonflower. Those are just the cotyledons (seed leaves) coming up, so I don't know which ones have so diligently sprouted. But at least one set of things is growing exactly where I intended.
I also have a ton of this. I really don't know what it is. It kinda looks like an herb, and I did plant some shiso and some catnip. Doesn't really look like either of those. So. We'll see. Boy howdy, there is a lot of it.
I always love the moment when the first true leaves start to emerge on a seedling. There's something brave about it. The seed leaves managed to sprout and reach the surface and the light, and now it's decided to grow in earnest, to grow into what it will really be.
Anyone is welcome to comment with what they're growing right now, things they would like to try, problems they're encountering, and questions they have. Share resources, answer questions, shout encouragement.
As for myself...
The butterfly garden (so named because it started as a focus on pollinator-friendly plants and is now technically just the "bonkers mass of flowering stuff" garden)is doing amazingly well. I was late in planting my seeds because, while the winter was comparatively mild, it didn't get consistently warm enough until very late, and then it immediately started raining for weeks. Hopefully, we won't now get so hot that everything stalls out and fails to bloom. For now, though, so many plants are coming up.
I'm particularly pleased because there are a bunch of California poppies coming up, and those seeds were actually three years old and I really didn't expect them to germinate. It has created a small dilemma, though--I...might...need to thin some of the plants???
I don't know how to cope with this possibility. I don't have the heart to pull any of them up! But they're so crowded! And, not incidentally, so unevenly distributed. I somehow ended up choosing lots of plants with exceptionally small seeds and I clearly did a terrible job of dispersing them.
Not so with the vines, at least! I planted them around the tree trunk, which this year has been fortified with a loose structure of chicken wire, so they'll have something to grow up. I have several types of morning glory and one of moonflower. Those are just the cotyledons (seed leaves) coming up, so I don't know which ones have so diligently sprouted. But at least one set of things is growing exactly where I intended.
I also have a ton of this. I really don't know what it is. It kinda looks like an herb, and I did plant some shiso and some catnip. Doesn't really look like either of those. So. We'll see. Boy howdy, there is a lot of it.
I always love the moment when the first true leaves start to emerge on a seedling. There's something brave about it. The seed leaves managed to sprout and reach the surface and the light, and now it's decided to grow in earnest, to grow into what it will really be.
