Pandemic Garden Club
Jan. 14th, 2023 07:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
scrubjayspeaksWelcome 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...
Jeez, and I thought last month was short. It's been raining here. Like, a lot. I-couldn't-physically-get-to-work levels of a lot. So the garden has not exactly been accessible. Hell, I barely even have any photos from outside for the last month. Apart from the videos I occasionally took of the rain pouring down from the safety of my front steps.
The nice thing about the rain is that the ground is very soft and easy to dig. Because the bare root fruit trees we preordered arrived. We've got another apricot, another peach, and a new damson. (The damson, embarrassingly, I wanted in large part because of a Monty Python reference to them that left me mildly obsessed as a teen. Listen, I have to have my fun somehow...)
Other than that, the garden is mostly covered in tarps and blankets against the cold. My poor geraniums are looking rather squashed, in fact. Some of the aloes are blooming, because they're weirdos. The usual winter routine.
Thanks to the rain, I can also offer you this: one photo of a newly-erupted mushroom.
This is traditionally one of the first photos I ever take in the new year, back when I hardly ever managed to pull my camera out for anything the rest of the year. The annual arrival of fairy rings is the best part of our limited rainy season.
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...
Jeez, and I thought last month was short. It's been raining here. Like, a lot. I-couldn't-physically-get-to-work levels of a lot. So the garden has not exactly been accessible. Hell, I barely even have any photos from outside for the last month. Apart from the videos I occasionally took of the rain pouring down from the safety of my front steps.
The nice thing about the rain is that the ground is very soft and easy to dig. Because the bare root fruit trees we preordered arrived. We've got another apricot, another peach, and a new damson. (The damson, embarrassingly, I wanted in large part because of a Monty Python reference to them that left me mildly obsessed as a teen. Listen, I have to have my fun somehow...)
Other than that, the garden is mostly covered in tarps and blankets against the cold. My poor geraniums are looking rather squashed, in fact. Some of the aloes are blooming, because they're weirdos. The usual winter routine.
Thanks to the rain, I can also offer you this: one photo of a newly-erupted mushroom.
This is traditionally one of the first photos I ever take in the new year, back when I hardly ever managed to pull my camera out for anything the rest of the year. The annual arrival of fairy rings is the best part of our limited rainy season.
