Pandemic Garden Club
Apr. 11th, 2026 12:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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...
Ah, the joys of gardening:
A big trailer full of compost! The place that processes the county’s green waste does a giveaway of the resultant compost twice a year. This will be used to fortify existing garden patches and continue the conversion of the plot directly outside out front door into a corn patch.
I liked this pair of photos that captures the transformation that lacy phacelia goes through. It has these normal-looking flower clusters that then unfurl into the fiddlehead version. I got a few nice stands of them in the wildflower field this year.
Also in the wildflower field, and almost anywhere else that more than a drop of water has been provided, are patches of California poppy. When I go out to clean the horse corrals after work, I sometimes get some really great evening light. This will disappear as summer comes on, but for now I get the glow without the heat.
My operculicarya decaryi had gotten too tall to continue living in the cold frame. (We will not discuss its cramped and bent top bit, indicating it has been too tall for a while already.) So this winter, it had to survive outside. It’s between the two cold frames and up against the side of the house, so it’s as sheltered and warm as I can get it. And it has survived! It still doesn’t believe that leaves belong on branches when it could, instead, just grow them directly on its trunk. But I’ll take what I can get.
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...
Ah, the joys of gardening:
A big trailer full of compost! The place that processes the county’s green waste does a giveaway of the resultant compost twice a year. This will be used to fortify existing garden patches and continue the conversion of the plot directly outside out front door into a corn patch.
I liked this pair of photos that captures the transformation that lacy phacelia goes through. It has these normal-looking flower clusters that then unfurl into the fiddlehead version. I got a few nice stands of them in the wildflower field this year.
Also in the wildflower field, and almost anywhere else that more than a drop of water has been provided, are patches of California poppy. When I go out to clean the horse corrals after work, I sometimes get some really great evening light. This will disappear as summer comes on, but for now I get the glow without the heat.
My operculicarya decaryi had gotten too tall to continue living in the cold frame. (We will not discuss its cramped and bent top bit, indicating it has been too tall for a while already.) So this winter, it had to survive outside. It’s between the two cold frames and up against the side of the house, so it’s as sheltered and warm as I can get it. And it has survived! It still doesn’t believe that leaves belong on branches when it could, instead, just grow them directly on its trunk. But I’ll take what I can get.
