Pandemic Garden Club
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scrubjayspeaksWelcome to the April 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...
The wildflower field, in the warmer weather, has started properly blooming. A lot of the plants are fairly low, so the abundant foxtails have largely swamped them. I have to get up close to spot some of them.
Tidy Tips is so small and cute, especially when I get a cluster like this. And they’re pretty much just reseeding themselves at this point.
One of the mixes I planted had yellow lupine in it, rather than the usual blue/purple that I have as both annuals and perennial shrubs. As the flowers are aging, they’re picking up the deep orange color as well. Very pretty.
I’ve had Great Valley phacelia growing before, I think, but this is lacy phacelia. It’s much taller and really stands out above the sea of grass.
Out in the orchard, the stone fruit trees have been blooming for a while now. Despite rough weather, including hail, they don’t seem to have dropped their blossoms as badly as they have in past years. Maybe we’ll actually get some fruit???
These aren’t mine, they’re mum’s vegetables. She’s got them laid out in the office. This year, she invested in proper grow lights. The seedlings have turned out much more vigorous because of it. We’re really trying to figure out strategies to deal with our area’s tendency toward late frosts and weird weather, without pushing our planting time down so late that summer heat stunts everything. :/
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...
The wildflower field, in the warmer weather, has started properly blooming. A lot of the plants are fairly low, so the abundant foxtails have largely swamped them. I have to get up close to spot some of them.
Tidy Tips is so small and cute, especially when I get a cluster like this. And they’re pretty much just reseeding themselves at this point.
One of the mixes I planted had yellow lupine in it, rather than the usual blue/purple that I have as both annuals and perennial shrubs. As the flowers are aging, they’re picking up the deep orange color as well. Very pretty.
I’ve had Great Valley phacelia growing before, I think, but this is lacy phacelia. It’s much taller and really stands out above the sea of grass.
Out in the orchard, the stone fruit trees have been blooming for a while now. Despite rough weather, including hail, they don’t seem to have dropped their blossoms as badly as they have in past years. Maybe we’ll actually get some fruit???
These aren’t mine, they’re mum’s vegetables. She’s got them laid out in the office. This year, she invested in proper grow lights. The seedlings have turned out much more vigorous because of it. We’re really trying to figure out strategies to deal with our area’s tendency toward late frosts and weird weather, without pushing our planting time down so late that summer heat stunts everything. :/
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Date: 2025-04-16 10:54 am (UTC)I just made a first little potato harvest from the yard! I'm hoping to get some more dirt soon - a bit late to plant most things, but we had car trouble. so it goes! at least I do want to re-plant one tomato into a fresher, larger pot :)
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Date: 2025-04-20 07:55 pm (UTC)Oh, potatoes! I'm so envious. We tried once and didn't have very good luck. Maybe we'll try again some day. Instead, we're planning to try sunchokes as an alternative edible tuber.