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scrubjayspeaks) wrote2023-07-08 08:41 pm
scrubjayspeaks) wrote2023-07-08 08:41 pm
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Pandemic Garden Club
Welcome to the July 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...
Containment breach! When I put the first succulents in the ground, they got planted in heavy hardware cloth enclosures. I have some clumping ones that continue to put out pups, but they're staying close to their parent. This little gremlin, though, is a runner off of Flat Fuck the Aloe (who was a lot flatter when living in a pot). It is nowhere near the boundaries of the basket. I don't object. If it can survive the gophers, more power to it. A strong, independent aloe who don't need no wire basket.
Oh, look at that: corn, beans, and squash, all coming up together. Very satisfying. I feel like they should be farther along for the time of year. In fairness, though, my sense of seasonal timing this year seems to be hilariously off. I blame the extended period of rain in early spring. I no longer have any idea when things should be growing.
After professing an aversion to them as unsettlingly weird, mum still gave in and planted walking onions. They still haven't produced anything usable for cooking. But they are, as promised, unsettlingly weird. Alien tentacle clusters.
I'm once again delighted to see that the four o'clocks have reseeded themselves. It's a mix of standard and marbled ones coming up. It's particularly nice because they kick off when everything else but the hollyhocks have died back. They'll hang around until the first frost kills them in autumn. Very good.
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...
Containment breach! When I put the first succulents in the ground, they got planted in heavy hardware cloth enclosures. I have some clumping ones that continue to put out pups, but they're staying close to their parent. This little gremlin, though, is a runner off of Flat Fuck the Aloe (who was a lot flatter when living in a pot). It is nowhere near the boundaries of the basket. I don't object. If it can survive the gophers, more power to it. A strong, independent aloe who don't need no wire basket.
Oh, look at that: corn, beans, and squash, all coming up together. Very satisfying. I feel like they should be farther along for the time of year. In fairness, though, my sense of seasonal timing this year seems to be hilariously off. I blame the extended period of rain in early spring. I no longer have any idea when things should be growing.
After professing an aversion to them as unsettlingly weird, mum still gave in and planted walking onions. They still haven't produced anything usable for cooking. But they are, as promised, unsettlingly weird. Alien tentacle clusters.
I'm once again delighted to see that the four o'clocks have reseeded themselves. It's a mix of standard and marbled ones coming up. It's particularly nice because they kick off when everything else but the hollyhocks have died back. They'll hang around until the first frost kills them in autumn. Very good.
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Not sure why the leaves all look half-dead though. This is my first time growing them, so they could be getting too much/not enough sun, water, etc. But I'm mostly a "stick it in the ground and see what happens" kind of gardener, so if I'm getting flowers I'm generally happy. =]
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Honestly, unless you're trying to cultivate something very rare and/or very finicky, this is usually a good enough approach. If it's going to require a ton of babying to survive conditions where you are, it might not be a great option anyway. And hey, flowers mean it's doing well enough to carry out its normal life processes--sounds like success to me!