Pandemic Garden Club
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scrubjayspeaksWelcome to the March 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...
A mushroom update! I went through the process of soaking the blocks again to force a second flush. The white ones never produced anything more, which is a shame since they were the most delicious to me. The brown and pink both produced a small second batch. Small both in quantity of mushrooms and in size of individual mushrooms.
But that picture up there? That is actually a third flush from the pink ones. I didn’t soak it again; I didn’t even bother spray it. I didn’t think I would get anything more. After being the slowest to start and grow, it is proving rather resilient. I may soak the others one more time, just to see if I can coax anything more from them.
The fruit trees are all coming into blossom. This is the apricot out front. I’m trying to convince mum not to panic about frost and cover everything in sheets. The violence of the process seems to lose as many blossoms as the frost and wind take on their own, so I’m not sure what good it is.
Right under the apricot tree, miner’s lettuce is growing. It grew wild everywhere at our old place, where it came in with the late winter rains. We brought some of it up here in potted plants, intentionally or otherwise, and it looks like it has naturalized at this point. This is one of the few shady spots where it stays cool and damp enough for it.
And in the castle garden, we have crocuses...
...and grape hyacinths.
I once again don’t seem to see any evidence of the new bulbs that have been planted in the last year. There should be some wood hyacinths, for one. Not to mention the alliums I’m still waiting for. I think I planted some ranunculus as well, but at this point, I can’t remember. Maybe they too will be on a weird multi-year delay like some of the others.
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...
A mushroom update! I went through the process of soaking the blocks again to force a second flush. The white ones never produced anything more, which is a shame since they were the most delicious to me. The brown and pink both produced a small second batch. Small both in quantity of mushrooms and in size of individual mushrooms.
But that picture up there? That is actually a third flush from the pink ones. I didn’t soak it again; I didn’t even bother spray it. I didn’t think I would get anything more. After being the slowest to start and grow, it is proving rather resilient. I may soak the others one more time, just to see if I can coax anything more from them.
The fruit trees are all coming into blossom. This is the apricot out front. I’m trying to convince mum not to panic about frost and cover everything in sheets. The violence of the process seems to lose as many blossoms as the frost and wind take on their own, so I’m not sure what good it is.
Right under the apricot tree, miner’s lettuce is growing. It grew wild everywhere at our old place, where it came in with the late winter rains. We brought some of it up here in potted plants, intentionally or otherwise, and it looks like it has naturalized at this point. This is one of the few shady spots where it stays cool and damp enough for it.
And in the castle garden, we have crocuses...
...and grape hyacinths.
I once again don’t seem to see any evidence of the new bulbs that have been planted in the last year. There should be some wood hyacinths, for one. Not to mention the alliums I’m still waiting for. I think I planted some ranunculus as well, but at this point, I can’t remember. Maybe they too will be on a weird multi-year delay like some of the others.
