Pandemic Garden Club
Aug. 10th, 2024 04:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
scrubjayspeaksWelcome to the August 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...
Mystery melon? We’re not entirely clear on what got planted where and what survived. So this will be fun to cut into and discover its exact nature.
I’ve been very happy with the lupines out in the wildflower field. Some were planted as shrubs, some were planted as seeds, and I’ve got some of each thriving. They bloom for much of the year, which is lovely to see in an otherwise dry and brown field.
Leading in the category of heroic efforts, the four o’clocks continue to reseed on their own and grow despite extreme adversity. (Read: all the weeds that got away from me this year.) They’re later this year and still small, but I can’t complain when they’re doing it all on their own.
This isn’t from my garden but from a local park I visited with a friend. There was a lovely huge stand of elderberry, which is a shrub with delusions of grandeur. It was full of ripe berries, which I did not attempt to harvest because who knows what the hell has been done to it on public property. I want to print this out and pin it to the fence between my own two elderberry shrubs as encouragement. They have not enjoyed our scorching summer, even with some shade cloth, and I feel they need a strong role model.
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...
Mystery melon? We’re not entirely clear on what got planted where and what survived. So this will be fun to cut into and discover its exact nature.
I’ve been very happy with the lupines out in the wildflower field. Some were planted as shrubs, some were planted as seeds, and I’ve got some of each thriving. They bloom for much of the year, which is lovely to see in an otherwise dry and brown field.
Leading in the category of heroic efforts, the four o’clocks continue to reseed on their own and grow despite extreme adversity. (Read: all the weeds that got away from me this year.) They’re later this year and still small, but I can’t complain when they’re doing it all on their own.
This isn’t from my garden but from a local park I visited with a friend. There was a lovely huge stand of elderberry, which is a shrub with delusions of grandeur. It was full of ripe berries, which I did not attempt to harvest because who knows what the hell has been done to it on public property. I want to print this out and pin it to the fence between my own two elderberry shrubs as encouragement. They have not enjoyed our scorching summer, even with some shade cloth, and I feel they need a strong role model.
