Pandemic Garden Club
Nov. 11th, 2023 08:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
scrubjayspeaksWelcome to the November 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...
Well, damn! It took most of the year, but the morning glories have basically taken over the shade trellis on the south side of the house. Look at that vine--clearly has dreams of world domination. More importantly:
They finally bloomed! And not just a couple of late-season attempts, no. Waves of blooms all up and down the terrifying vegetal columns. Most of them are blue, which is what we actually planted. But there have been a few white ones, and we don’t know where they came from. I mean, I planted some moonflowers years ago out in the castle garden, which did a whole lot of nothing. But I don’t see how they could be cropping up now. Just a failure of sorting when the seeds were being packaged, perhaps?
In any case, we’re definitely doing this again next year. Very fun. Lightly threatening.
In unrelated news, I finally got around to planting the opuntia cuttings I had been stockpiling. The two thin, bright green ones came from my club’s freebie table. The big chunky one showed up at work, courtesy of the guy who always brings in weird cuttings from his garden. No idea what the specific variety is of either one, though the big one is a proper, edible prickly pear type.
We’ve been talking about possibly growing a living fence of opuntia (not unprecedented around these parts). Maybe these will be the start of that. They’ve been waiting months to get planted, and don’t seem any worse for wear, so I’m hoping they’ll take.
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...
Well, damn! It took most of the year, but the morning glories have basically taken over the shade trellis on the south side of the house. Look at that vine--clearly has dreams of world domination. More importantly:
They finally bloomed! And not just a couple of late-season attempts, no. Waves of blooms all up and down the terrifying vegetal columns. Most of them are blue, which is what we actually planted. But there have been a few white ones, and we don’t know where they came from. I mean, I planted some moonflowers years ago out in the castle garden, which did a whole lot of nothing. But I don’t see how they could be cropping up now. Just a failure of sorting when the seeds were being packaged, perhaps?
In any case, we’re definitely doing this again next year. Very fun. Lightly threatening.
In unrelated news, I finally got around to planting the opuntia cuttings I had been stockpiling. The two thin, bright green ones came from my club’s freebie table. The big chunky one showed up at work, courtesy of the guy who always brings in weird cuttings from his garden. No idea what the specific variety is of either one, though the big one is a proper, edible prickly pear type.
We’ve been talking about possibly growing a living fence of opuntia (not unprecedented around these parts). Maybe these will be the start of that. They’ve been waiting months to get planted, and don’t seem any worse for wear, so I’m hoping they’ll take.
