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scrubjayspeaks) wrote2022-12-09 05:01 pm
scrubjayspeaks) wrote2022-12-09 05:01 pm
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Pandemic Garden Club
Welcome to the December 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...
Kind of a short update this month. It's properly winter here--cold nights, dipping below freezing sometimes, with a smattering of rain. (A pretty good smattering, actually, which has been lovely.) When the weather is rubbishy, we leave the plants under their blankets even during the day. So not much to look at. A few of the succulents are going through their winter blooming, but I haven't gotten any pictures.
Mum likes to cut flowers and put them in vases and empty glass spice jars. There are a couple on my bathroom counter. And at one point, the marigolds in there started to sprout. I mean, yes, I know there are seeds in there, but I've never had a flower head just start spontaneously growing new seedlings like that. I let them be, but they ended up withering after a week or so. I don't really have anywhere protected to plant them to see them through the winter. It was charmingly weird while it lasted, though.
After another round of dormancy and looking dead, the amazing resurrecting pelargonium has come back again. I'm just so fond of this resilient little fucker.
Here it is, in all its late-autumnal glory: the orchard, or what's left of it. We've been cutting down the corn stalks--we're thinking of renting a wood chipper to grind up the dried stuff we've got lying around so it can be added to the compost piles and not take the rest of our lifetimes to break down. But the sunflowers have been popular perches and feeders for the birds, so they're still standing. They look a bit eerie, all dry and dark and bare, towering above even the fruit trees.
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...
Kind of a short update this month. It's properly winter here--cold nights, dipping below freezing sometimes, with a smattering of rain. (A pretty good smattering, actually, which has been lovely.) When the weather is rubbishy, we leave the plants under their blankets even during the day. So not much to look at. A few of the succulents are going through their winter blooming, but I haven't gotten any pictures.
Mum likes to cut flowers and put them in vases and empty glass spice jars. There are a couple on my bathroom counter. And at one point, the marigolds in there started to sprout. I mean, yes, I know there are seeds in there, but I've never had a flower head just start spontaneously growing new seedlings like that. I let them be, but they ended up withering after a week or so. I don't really have anywhere protected to plant them to see them through the winter. It was charmingly weird while it lasted, though.
After another round of dormancy and looking dead, the amazing resurrecting pelargonium has come back again. I'm just so fond of this resilient little fucker.
Here it is, in all its late-autumnal glory: the orchard, or what's left of it. We've been cutting down the corn stalks--we're thinking of renting a wood chipper to grind up the dried stuff we've got lying around so it can be added to the compost piles and not take the rest of our lifetimes to break down. But the sunflowers have been popular perches and feeders for the birds, so they're still standing. They look a bit eerie, all dry and dark and bare, towering above even the fruit trees.