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...
My rock rose finally bloomed. I've never seen one before and bought it on a whim at a local sale for water-wise and native plants. It always looked vaguely sickly to me, and I remained convinced it was going to drop dead. But apparently it's Just Like That. I nearly missed the blooms entirely, so this one was already looking a bit manky by the time I got a photo. Still. Always nice when a plant is happy enough to bloom.
The self-seeded hollyhocks are unusually, uh, enthusiastic this year. The one pictured here has since grown another foot and is now above the level of the roof. There are dozens of ones like this at the front of the house, entirely screening it. And best of all, they do it all on their own and only want a bit of runoff from when we water the other plants in the area.
My succulent club had its annual show and sale. I did not allow myself to go overboard. I have more plants than I can cope with. Also, I'm sick of picking up weird ones that then die spectacularly for me sometime in the next six to twelve months. However, I am only one weak creature, so here are the newest additions. Two small aloes with foolish leaf shapes. And another gymnocalycium, as my other one has thrived with my benign neglect and blooms spectacularly. Still need to get them potted up into something more suitable.
I did also receive these root-bound, pot-busting agaves as rescue plants. They were unwanted at the house of a friend's parents. There are a couple others, but they want to keep the pots from those and I, oddly enough, have not wanted to get involved with repotting them during our D&D sessions there. Apart from needing to be divided up and given some legroom, they appear to be particularly attractive plants. I might put one or two in the ground eventually and let them become living caltrops.
This year's corn! And beans! And squash! Yes, we planted the Three Sisters method again, with some modifications based on last year's struggles. We didn't stagger the planting at all; last year, giving the corn a head start meant nothing else ever got any damn light at all. We might--MIGHT--even manage to thin some of the plants, if I can convince mum that it isn't the worst cruelty ever made manifest in the world. XD
And I just couldn't resist this shot of a cluster of sunflowers coming up. There is something incredibly cute about seedlings that still have their shells caught on their first set of leaves. Still wearing their baby clothes!
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...
My rock rose finally bloomed. I've never seen one before and bought it on a whim at a local sale for water-wise and native plants. It always looked vaguely sickly to me, and I remained convinced it was going to drop dead. But apparently it's Just Like That. I nearly missed the blooms entirely, so this one was already looking a bit manky by the time I got a photo. Still. Always nice when a plant is happy enough to bloom.
The self-seeded hollyhocks are unusually, uh, enthusiastic this year. The one pictured here has since grown another foot and is now above the level of the roof. There are dozens of ones like this at the front of the house, entirely screening it. And best of all, they do it all on their own and only want a bit of runoff from when we water the other plants in the area.
My succulent club had its annual show and sale. I did not allow myself to go overboard. I have more plants than I can cope with. Also, I'm sick of picking up weird ones that then die spectacularly for me sometime in the next six to twelve months. However, I am only one weak creature, so here are the newest additions. Two small aloes with foolish leaf shapes. And another gymnocalycium, as my other one has thrived with my benign neglect and blooms spectacularly. Still need to get them potted up into something more suitable.
I did also receive these root-bound, pot-busting agaves as rescue plants. They were unwanted at the house of a friend's parents. There are a couple others, but they want to keep the pots from those and I, oddly enough, have not wanted to get involved with repotting them during our D&D sessions there. Apart from needing to be divided up and given some legroom, they appear to be particularly attractive plants. I might put one or two in the ground eventually and let them become living caltrops.
This year's corn! And beans! And squash! Yes, we planted the Three Sisters method again, with some modifications based on last year's struggles. We didn't stagger the planting at all; last year, giving the corn a head start meant nothing else ever got any damn light at all. We might--MIGHT--even manage to thin some of the plants, if I can convince mum that it isn't the worst cruelty ever made manifest in the world. XD
And I just couldn't resist this shot of a cluster of sunflowers coming up. There is something incredibly cute about seedlings that still have their shells caught on their first set of leaves. Still wearing their baby clothes!
