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scrubjayspeaks) wrote2021-01-08 08:33 pm
scrubjayspeaks) wrote2021-01-08 08:33 pm
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Pandemic Garden Club
Welcome to the January 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 season of seed catalogs has begun! The first two have arrived so far. It's always cheering to be able to look through collections of seeds during the winter when nothing much is growing. I not-so-secretly far prefer browsing for things to buy in printed catalogs. Websites are fine if you already know precisely what you want, but nothing beats a catalog for serendipity and wishful thinking.
We got a little bit of rain, just enough to soften the ground. So the area to become my new wildflower patch got disked and harrowed so it's ready to work. I haven't ordered the seeds yet--a lot of places were still working on processing the next year's seed supply when last I checked--but at least the land is ready. My hope had been to get the seeds down the next time we were forecast to get some extended rain, so I wouldn't have to fuss with watering them. They are, after all, meant to be native plants that will fend for themselves for the most part. But rain seems to have been cancelled this year, so no real hope of that.
Finally, I bought this moon almanac...thingy. I've bought plenty of Llewellyn books before, being a certain sort of pagan creature, but not this one. I saw it listed in, of all places, a seed catalog and thought, huh, yes please. (I ordered it from my local indie bookstore, which gave me an excuse to, uhhh, buy a few other books at the same time. :D) I've never used an almanac for planting purposes. I haven't really gotten a chance to look at this one yet--it just arrived this week, during my joyous overtime experience. It will, if nothing else, be a pleasant amusement through the coming year.
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 season of seed catalogs has begun! The first two have arrived so far. It's always cheering to be able to look through collections of seeds during the winter when nothing much is growing. I not-so-secretly far prefer browsing for things to buy in printed catalogs. Websites are fine if you already know precisely what you want, but nothing beats a catalog for serendipity and wishful thinking.
We got a little bit of rain, just enough to soften the ground. So the area to become my new wildflower patch got disked and harrowed so it's ready to work. I haven't ordered the seeds yet--a lot of places were still working on processing the next year's seed supply when last I checked--but at least the land is ready. My hope had been to get the seeds down the next time we were forecast to get some extended rain, so I wouldn't have to fuss with watering them. They are, after all, meant to be native plants that will fend for themselves for the most part. But rain seems to have been cancelled this year, so no real hope of that.
Finally, I bought this moon almanac...thingy. I've bought plenty of Llewellyn books before, being a certain sort of pagan creature, but not this one. I saw it listed in, of all places, a seed catalog and thought, huh, yes please. (I ordered it from my local indie bookstore, which gave me an excuse to, uhhh, buy a few other books at the same time. :D) I've never used an almanac for planting purposes. I haven't really gotten a chance to look at this one yet--it just arrived this week, during my joyous overtime experience. It will, if nothing else, be a pleasant amusement through the coming year.