Pandemic Garden Club
Jun. 8th, 2025 10:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
scrubjayspeaksWelcome to the June 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...
Corn and pumpkin update!
I am just the “I want to see it grow up healthy” meme every time I look at them. I love the randomly out-of-its-lane sunflower.
Years ago, I won a rather large operculicarya decaryi in a raffle. This is really too nice of a plant for the likes of me. I had been keeping it in the cold frame--it loses its leaves every autumn, but I don’t trust it to survive actual freezing. I’ve just been ignoring it for the most part in there. Problem is, it’s getting too tall for the cold frame. So I hauled it out and pruned the hell out of it. (Sorry, I didn’t think to take a before picture, but it was bushy and growing in about sixteen different directions.) For the summer, it’s going to hang out in the space between the two cold frames. Come winter, uhhhhh...that’ll be a problem for future!Jay.
I’ve got some type of clarkia growing here and there as late-season wildflowers. I always enjoy stripey, remix-style colors on flowers, like the marbled four o’clocks.
I got a couple of cuttings of mystery opuntias a while back. This one is finally putting out a new paddle. Succulents are mostly a slow-growing category of plants. I am not patient, generally speaking, but I can be relied upon to forget a plant exists for a while. Provided it manages to survive, I get to be pleasantly surprised by its progress.
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...
Corn and pumpkin update!
I am just the “I want to see it grow up healthy” meme every time I look at them. I love the randomly out-of-its-lane sunflower.
Years ago, I won a rather large operculicarya decaryi in a raffle. This is really too nice of a plant for the likes of me. I had been keeping it in the cold frame--it loses its leaves every autumn, but I don’t trust it to survive actual freezing. I’ve just been ignoring it for the most part in there. Problem is, it’s getting too tall for the cold frame. So I hauled it out and pruned the hell out of it. (Sorry, I didn’t think to take a before picture, but it was bushy and growing in about sixteen different directions.) For the summer, it’s going to hang out in the space between the two cold frames. Come winter, uhhhhh...that’ll be a problem for future!Jay.
I’ve got some type of clarkia growing here and there as late-season wildflowers. I always enjoy stripey, remix-style colors on flowers, like the marbled four o’clocks.
I got a couple of cuttings of mystery opuntias a while back. This one is finally putting out a new paddle. Succulents are mostly a slow-growing category of plants. I am not patient, generally speaking, but I can be relied upon to forget a plant exists for a while. Provided it manages to survive, I get to be pleasantly surprised by its progress.
