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scrubjayspeaks) wrote2023-10-08 09:34 am
scrubjayspeaks) wrote2023-10-08 09:34 am
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Pandemic Garden Club
Welcome 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...
Once again posting shots of the four o’clocks, which continue to hold the title of Most Successful Plant. They’re bigger than ever this year, they’ve once again set seed, and they’re still blooming strong. (They’ll go until the frost kills them.)
And the reason I need that consolation is because of this: this is basically what we’ve got for corn. The ears I posted last month were, indeed, about all we got. It never even got tall enough to walk between. The squash has been okay-ish. The beans, per usual, are nothing to speak of.
The true tragedy, though, is that I have zero pumpkins this year. None. I could cry.
We’ve decided that next year, fuck it, we ball. We’re doing a full pumpkin patch again, like we did the first year. We’re okay with being overwhelmed by squash. In fact, we crave it now.
I need to be able to stand hip-deep in plants and feel the subtle threat that they might drag me down into a Halloween underworld with their many tendrils. It’s called self-care.
Speaking of subtly threatening things--I find it menacing (in a charming way) how the hollyhocks leave these towering spikes of drying seed heads swaying over the landscape.
As ever, the chaparral current’s leaves dried up over the summer. There's a little still green on it, which caught the light in a particularly lovely way the other evening. As the weather cools, it will start to put out new growth again. It’s always reverse of everything else in terms of growing season around here, which just makes me love it more.
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...
Once again posting shots of the four o’clocks, which continue to hold the title of Most Successful Plant. They’re bigger than ever this year, they’ve once again set seed, and they’re still blooming strong. (They’ll go until the frost kills them.)
And the reason I need that consolation is because of this: this is basically what we’ve got for corn. The ears I posted last month were, indeed, about all we got. It never even got tall enough to walk between. The squash has been okay-ish. The beans, per usual, are nothing to speak of.
The true tragedy, though, is that I have zero pumpkins this year. None. I could cry.
We’ve decided that next year, fuck it, we ball. We’re doing a full pumpkin patch again, like we did the first year. We’re okay with being overwhelmed by squash. In fact, we crave it now.
I need to be able to stand hip-deep in plants and feel the subtle threat that they might drag me down into a Halloween underworld with their many tendrils. It’s called self-care.
Speaking of subtly threatening things--I find it menacing (in a charming way) how the hollyhocks leave these towering spikes of drying seed heads swaying over the landscape.
As ever, the chaparral current’s leaves dried up over the summer. There's a little still green on it, which caught the light in a particularly lovely way the other evening. As the weather cools, it will start to put out new growth again. It’s always reverse of everything else in terms of growing season around here, which just makes me love it more.