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scrubjayspeaks) wrote2023-12-09 07:15 pm
scrubjayspeaks) wrote2023-12-09 07:15 pm
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Pandemic Garden Club
Welcome to the December 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...
It’s been a quiet month in the garden, apart from chucking a few more bulbs in the ground, and I’m low on energy myself. So I’ll keep this short.
The winter-blooming aloes are starting up again. I have the sheets arranged a little differently over the biggest aloe. I’m hoping to strike a better balance between keeping them warm enough and allowing the flower stalks room to grow. They got very squashed last year.
One of the two lupine bushes is thriving. It once again has flowers. I have no idea what the yearly cycle is supposed to look like for that plant. They just kind of do whatever they please.
My parents have bought live Christmas trees for most, if not all, of my life. The one we had for the last few years finally got big enough that it wasn’t going to be suitable anymore. It got planted out in the field, and this little one got selected as the next one. It’s very flat on one side. This will work fine for putting it in the house, but it does look slightly silly. This will be my second black pine. I quite fancy them, as they grow up to be rather twisted and odd-looking. That, as far as I’m concerned, is the proper way for a pine tree to look.
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...
It’s been a quiet month in the garden, apart from chucking a few more bulbs in the ground, and I’m low on energy myself. So I’ll keep this short.
The winter-blooming aloes are starting up again. I have the sheets arranged a little differently over the biggest aloe. I’m hoping to strike a better balance between keeping them warm enough and allowing the flower stalks room to grow. They got very squashed last year.
One of the two lupine bushes is thriving. It once again has flowers. I have no idea what the yearly cycle is supposed to look like for that plant. They just kind of do whatever they please.
My parents have bought live Christmas trees for most, if not all, of my life. The one we had for the last few years finally got big enough that it wasn’t going to be suitable anymore. It got planted out in the field, and this little one got selected as the next one. It’s very flat on one side. This will work fine for putting it in the house, but it does look slightly silly. This will be my second black pine. I quite fancy them, as they grow up to be rather twisted and odd-looking. That, as far as I’m concerned, is the proper way for a pine tree to look.
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The front bed the SU weeded for me and dug the gladiolus out of is covered in weeds again despite the alyssum I put down both as plants and seeds. Also there are gladiolus sprouting up where we missed baby bulbs. Whoops.
I've got basil coming out of my ears. The stuff in starter pots has been relegated to the back room and a grow light so it doesn't drown.
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All hail the neverending reigns of Gladiolus and Basil, the plants that just won't quit! :D