Pandemic Garden Club
Oct. 7th, 2022 04:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
scrubjayspeaksWelcome to the October 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...
It has been all trees, all the time this past month. We placed our order for next year's bare root fruit trees. This past year, we added to the collection of apple and Asian pear trees. So this time, we focused on adding stone fruits--new varieties of apricot and peach, and trying damsons for the first time. But those are trees for later, and I clearly needed trees for now as well.
I finally got a match to the previous liquidambar tree for the wildflower field. These were both meant to fill the empty spots left by the dead elderberries.
Speaking of which, I bought two more of them. I know, I never learn. Except I do! Because I'm putting them in a more sheltered area and they get little shade cloths until the heat ends. (We think it was the brutal heat that killed the last ones when we finally took them out of pots and put them in the ground.)
My obsessive tree-buying spree allowed us to finish filling out the first north line of trees. We're putting them in as an eventual windbreak and partial privacy screen. Also as part of my continued attempts to improve our microclimate. There are two pines and a cedar here, alternating with manzanita. For now, while they get established, they'll get watered. Eventually, though, they'll be fairly drought-tolerant.
Which is still very much a thing here. But we did get the first rain of the season. Now we've got morning fog fairly often. It's a start, you know?
And finally, have a nice little flower from the spider plant. It hasn't been as aggressive about blooming this year, compared to last, but it's growing well.
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...
It has been all trees, all the time this past month. We placed our order for next year's bare root fruit trees. This past year, we added to the collection of apple and Asian pear trees. So this time, we focused on adding stone fruits--new varieties of apricot and peach, and trying damsons for the first time. But those are trees for later, and I clearly needed trees for now as well.
I finally got a match to the previous liquidambar tree for the wildflower field. These were both meant to fill the empty spots left by the dead elderberries.
Speaking of which, I bought two more of them. I know, I never learn. Except I do! Because I'm putting them in a more sheltered area and they get little shade cloths until the heat ends. (We think it was the brutal heat that killed the last ones when we finally took them out of pots and put them in the ground.)
My obsessive tree-buying spree allowed us to finish filling out the first north line of trees. We're putting them in as an eventual windbreak and partial privacy screen. Also as part of my continued attempts to improve our microclimate. There are two pines and a cedar here, alternating with manzanita. For now, while they get established, they'll get watered. Eventually, though, they'll be fairly drought-tolerant.
Which is still very much a thing here. But we did get the first rain of the season. Now we've got morning fog fairly often. It's a start, you know?
And finally, have a nice little flower from the spider plant. It hasn't been as aggressive about blooming this year, compared to last, but it's growing well.
