Pandemic Garden Club
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scrubjayspeaksWelcome to the June 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 yellowish aloe that bloomed last month has SET SEED! This is not a drill, I repeat, we have aloe seeds! I'm hoping it got cross-pollinated by the other big aloe that lives in the same section of greenhouse. They're fairly similar in leaf structure, so I'm not going to be revolutionizing the field of aloe crosses here, but the other one has weirder flower structures and I want to see what they do together.
As you can see, the pods are still green. I have to wait for them to start drying out to collect them. Then I...I have to manage to grow aloe from seed. I have technically done this once before--I have an aloe vaombe that will someday be a tree but is, for now, about two inches tall and being babied in the office. So I am only moderately worried about my prospects.
It's been a big month for flowers again. We've got some lovely bachelor's buttons out in the wildflower field, along with whatever this dude is going to be eventually. There are several more around the field, but this one is the furthest along so far.
Also, the spider plants I got from a coworker are apparently very happy on the backyard shelving, as they have sent out many flower vines. A+, very pretty, would grab handfuls from the break room again.
Out in the cottage garden, my previous years' planting of wildflower seeds have decided to be the gift that keeps on giving. Despite not laying any more wildflower seeds down there this year, I've got Palmer's Penstemon coming up for the first time.
It's absolutely lovely to look at--weirdly long stems, a soft, matte green leaf that looks like nothing else, flowers that are an adorable cross between snapdragon and foxglove in shape and patterning. I'll have to see about obtaining more of that seed specifically--it came in a mix from two years ago, I think--and flinging it about indiscriminately in the future.
I've been mulching everywhere. We've had a pile of trash hay the horses won't eat out in the field and, uh, turns out we made a really excellent mulch pile out of it without actually meaning to. So we've been spreading it around the vegetable and flower areas. Not too thick, as we don't need it for heat right now, but just to help with water retention. Because wow, vegetables are thirsty mfers.
How could anyone deny these baby pumpkins all the water in the world? Look at them! They're still wearing their seed cases like little hats! *clutches heart* (Yes, yes I DID give in and plant more Halloween pumpkins again this year. We lost some of the bushel gourds to freaking insects, so I had squash hills going spare. I am weak, and pumpkins are wily.)
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 yellowish aloe that bloomed last month has SET SEED! This is not a drill, I repeat, we have aloe seeds! I'm hoping it got cross-pollinated by the other big aloe that lives in the same section of greenhouse. They're fairly similar in leaf structure, so I'm not going to be revolutionizing the field of aloe crosses here, but the other one has weirder flower structures and I want to see what they do together.
As you can see, the pods are still green. I have to wait for them to start drying out to collect them. Then I...I have to manage to grow aloe from seed. I have technically done this once before--I have an aloe vaombe that will someday be a tree but is, for now, about two inches tall and being babied in the office. So I am only moderately worried about my prospects.
It's been a big month for flowers again. We've got some lovely bachelor's buttons out in the wildflower field, along with whatever this dude is going to be eventually. There are several more around the field, but this one is the furthest along so far.
Also, the spider plants I got from a coworker are apparently very happy on the backyard shelving, as they have sent out many flower vines. A+, very pretty, would grab handfuls from the break room again.
Out in the cottage garden, my previous years' planting of wildflower seeds have decided to be the gift that keeps on giving. Despite not laying any more wildflower seeds down there this year, I've got Palmer's Penstemon coming up for the first time.
It's absolutely lovely to look at--weirdly long stems, a soft, matte green leaf that looks like nothing else, flowers that are an adorable cross between snapdragon and foxglove in shape and patterning. I'll have to see about obtaining more of that seed specifically--it came in a mix from two years ago, I think--and flinging it about indiscriminately in the future.
I've been mulching everywhere. We've had a pile of trash hay the horses won't eat out in the field and, uh, turns out we made a really excellent mulch pile out of it without actually meaning to. So we've been spreading it around the vegetable and flower areas. Not too thick, as we don't need it for heat right now, but just to help with water retention. Because wow, vegetables are thirsty mfers.
How could anyone deny these baby pumpkins all the water in the world? Look at them! They're still wearing their seed cases like little hats! *clutches heart* (Yes, yes I DID give in and plant more Halloween pumpkins again this year. We lost some of the bushel gourds to freaking insects, so I had squash hills going spare. I am weak, and pumpkins are wily.)
