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Second morning bike ride
Apr. 18th, 2012 09:01 amYesterday was so much fun that I think today I'll ride down to the Wal*Mart by the Delaware, via. the natural foods store, and buy my summer yoga pants and some whole grains that I can use as cat grass. The skies are a little threatening, so I may change my mind.
Meanwhile, both of my hippeastrum pods are definitely starting to split open. I will give them another day or so in case the seeds are still ripening inside the pods, and then I'll see what I've got. The 'papilio' x 'emerald' is so heavy I've had to stake the stem.
Roy has pointed out, not terribly gently, that there's a hippeastrum population explosion around here and something will probably have to be done. Indeed, and I plan to reduce two windowsill planters to a measly five bulbs, possibly as early as this evening. Virus being a problem, the remaining bulbs will be discarded and the soil sterilized in a 350 oven for a couple hours.
This morning I did something I had been putting off since last fall -- I re-potted the Nopalxochia. An internet friend, a nurseryman, had warned me that I could expect to find nothing but muck at the bottom of the pot after the plant's meltdown last summer, so I'd been dreading the experience. Today I unpotted it and found....healthy, sweet-smelling soil shot through with live roots! So much for my internet expert friend. But I refreshed the soil at the bottom and sides of the pot, watered it in, and think I may keep it indoors this year and see what happens.
I'll want to remember one of these days, so I should comment that on Monday, April 17 Roy and I pruned our curly willow severely. That is to say, we cut it off about 6" above the level of the soil in the pot. We are hoping to have a curly willow shrub. If not, we will have a nice big pot to use for something else.
Meanwhile, both of my hippeastrum pods are definitely starting to split open. I will give them another day or so in case the seeds are still ripening inside the pods, and then I'll see what I've got. The 'papilio' x 'emerald' is so heavy I've had to stake the stem.
Roy has pointed out, not terribly gently, that there's a hippeastrum population explosion around here and something will probably have to be done. Indeed, and I plan to reduce two windowsill planters to a measly five bulbs, possibly as early as this evening. Virus being a problem, the remaining bulbs will be discarded and the soil sterilized in a 350 oven for a couple hours.
This morning I did something I had been putting off since last fall -- I re-potted the Nopalxochia. An internet friend, a nurseryman, had warned me that I could expect to find nothing but muck at the bottom of the pot after the plant's meltdown last summer, so I'd been dreading the experience. Today I unpotted it and found....healthy, sweet-smelling soil shot through with live roots! So much for my internet expert friend. But I refreshed the soil at the bottom and sides of the pot, watered it in, and think I may keep it indoors this year and see what happens.
I'll want to remember one of these days, so I should comment that on Monday, April 17 Roy and I pruned our curly willow severely. That is to say, we cut it off about 6" above the level of the soil in the pot. We are hoping to have a curly willow shrub. If not, we will have a nice big pot to use for something else.
