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scrubjayspeaks) wrote2025-03-08 02:41 pm
scrubjayspeaks) wrote2025-03-08 02:41 pm
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Pandemic Garden Club
Welcome 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...
Sorry about missing last month. While recovering from surgery, I had neither the computer access nor the energy to deal with compiling a post.
Y’all, the weather has been...a lot. It warmed up enough that the fruit trees are flowering. Then we got rain. Then cold. Then more rain, with a surprise freak hailstorm that hit my tiny town harder than anywhere else. It has been two days and there are still huge piles of accumulated hail. This clump slid off one of the shade clothes at the front of the house. The other gave way under the weight and will have to be reattached. The two on the side are currently sagging under many pounds of hail, which melts during the day and refreezes overnight.
We got some rain, and I got this shot. Seeing a little water drop cupped in each palmate leaf was just the epitome of the season.
One solitary goldfields flower, braving the weird weather.
The grape hyacinths came up in a few spots again. It’s funny how I can evenly distribute a type of bulb around the castle garden, and over the years, the plants will decide which spot they favor well enough. The daffodils always prefer the north side, while these like the south side, and so on. The tree at the center is just a skinny thing, and the whole area is small, so it’s hard to believe there’s a significant range of microclimate right there. And yet.
For Christmas, my mum had given me two sets of little solar-powered mushroom lights. I finally got around to setting them up. They now form a fairy ring around the tall ash in the wildflower garden. I love anything that glows or lights up, and I love anything to do with mushrooms, so these are a joy.
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...
Sorry about missing last month. While recovering from surgery, I had neither the computer access nor the energy to deal with compiling a post.
Y’all, the weather has been...a lot. It warmed up enough that the fruit trees are flowering. Then we got rain. Then cold. Then more rain, with a surprise freak hailstorm that hit my tiny town harder than anywhere else. It has been two days and there are still huge piles of accumulated hail. This clump slid off one of the shade clothes at the front of the house. The other gave way under the weight and will have to be reattached. The two on the side are currently sagging under many pounds of hail, which melts during the day and refreezes overnight.
We got some rain, and I got this shot. Seeing a little water drop cupped in each palmate leaf was just the epitome of the season.
One solitary goldfields flower, braving the weird weather.
The grape hyacinths came up in a few spots again. It’s funny how I can evenly distribute a type of bulb around the castle garden, and over the years, the plants will decide which spot they favor well enough. The daffodils always prefer the north side, while these like the south side, and so on. The tree at the center is just a skinny thing, and the whole area is small, so it’s hard to believe there’s a significant range of microclimate right there. And yet.
For Christmas, my mum had given me two sets of little solar-powered mushroom lights. I finally got around to setting them up. They now form a fairy ring around the tall ash in the wildflower garden. I love anything that glows or lights up, and I love anything to do with mushrooms, so these are a joy.