Pandemic Garden Club
Oct. 13th, 2024 09:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
scrubjayspeaksWelcome 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...
I find the grapevines more pleasing to look at than to eat. Despite being a couple of seedless varieties, they very much have seeds. And they tend to be a bit astringent. I’ll still eat them, but they’re more fun to photograph.
*sigh* We only got a couple pumpkins this year--lots of male flowers, very few female. I vaguely remember that being due to some imbalance or something, but I can’t seem to find that information again. And then! Some creature came along and snip-snopped the stem on this one. It’s just a little guy forever now, though it did color up nicely--when it came off the vine, it was still half green.
This is an unknown variety of boophone that I obtained early in my succulent collecting from a private sale. It spent years doing nothing in particular, other than being chestnut brown bulbs with long, thin leaves. It got shuffled to the back of the cold frame, where it was soon inundated with cobwebs. For the last few years, though, the biggest bulb has managed to put out a big, showy spray of red flowers. At some point, I should probably divide the bulbs and give it a better home than Spider Central.
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...
I find the grapevines more pleasing to look at than to eat. Despite being a couple of seedless varieties, they very much have seeds. And they tend to be a bit astringent. I’ll still eat them, but they’re more fun to photograph.
*sigh* We only got a couple pumpkins this year--lots of male flowers, very few female. I vaguely remember that being due to some imbalance or something, but I can’t seem to find that information again. And then! Some creature came along and snip-snopped the stem on this one. It’s just a little guy forever now, though it did color up nicely--when it came off the vine, it was still half green.
This is an unknown variety of boophone that I obtained early in my succulent collecting from a private sale. It spent years doing nothing in particular, other than being chestnut brown bulbs with long, thin leaves. It got shuffled to the back of the cold frame, where it was soon inundated with cobwebs. For the last few years, though, the biggest bulb has managed to put out a big, showy spray of red flowers. At some point, I should probably divide the bulbs and give it a better home than Spider Central.
