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Garden journal, rainy day glee
Apr. 29th, 2013 11:08 amYesterday I was glumly contemplating the about-to-be-parched nature of some of my pots and plots and thinking I'd need to install a hose out front. Lo and behold! It's been raining gently since last night!
The creeping jenny I put in my neighbor's tree pit -- by the curb to help with water retention -- is perking up after looking very shocky for a day or so. That's a good thing. My seedling maple, re-potted recently and surrounded by dusty miller and swiss chard, was relocated to the front. It gets full sun there and already is looking perkier.
In what I consider one of my smarter moves, I just filled another large planter with mixed potting soil -- cheap crap from the Shop-Rite intermixed with spent mushroom compost in the bottom half, pricey Organic Mechanics potting mixture intermixed with spent mushroom compost in the top half. I've set it out where it should get gently soaked over the rest of this rainy day. Future home of apple tree and hot peppers!
My apparently dead bay tree will get another couple weeks to see if it will have a miraculous resurrection. If not, I covet its ornamental pot for my new pedestrian-but-pretty pelargonium. Another plant that I was sure was dead is a spider plant that, I kid you not, was shoved in a dimly-lighted part of the back house and not watered since October. I brought it out and gave it some water yesterday and it's already losing its pallor and greening up. I can only imagine what a day of rainwater will do for it. The Scamp will be in a drugged stupor the entire growing season.
I'm trying to decide when I should repot the keepers from the Class of 2009. July, I think, so they can re-establish themselves from July through October or November and then rest till February. And I'm wondering whether it's possible to overwinter an allegedly annual verbena. It's verbena Lanai Twister Pink and it was more than I usually spend on plants ($5.50), so I'd like it to remain part of the family, if you get my drift. I have a hanging planter space all ready for it...
The creeping jenny I put in my neighbor's tree pit -- by the curb to help with water retention -- is perking up after looking very shocky for a day or so. That's a good thing. My seedling maple, re-potted recently and surrounded by dusty miller and swiss chard, was relocated to the front. It gets full sun there and already is looking perkier.
In what I consider one of my smarter moves, I just filled another large planter with mixed potting soil -- cheap crap from the Shop-Rite intermixed with spent mushroom compost in the bottom half, pricey Organic Mechanics potting mixture intermixed with spent mushroom compost in the top half. I've set it out where it should get gently soaked over the rest of this rainy day. Future home of apple tree and hot peppers!
My apparently dead bay tree will get another couple weeks to see if it will have a miraculous resurrection. If not, I covet its ornamental pot for my new pedestrian-but-pretty pelargonium. Another plant that I was sure was dead is a spider plant that, I kid you not, was shoved in a dimly-lighted part of the back house and not watered since October. I brought it out and gave it some water yesterday and it's already losing its pallor and greening up. I can only imagine what a day of rainwater will do for it. The Scamp will be in a drugged stupor the entire growing season.
I'm trying to decide when I should repot the keepers from the Class of 2009. July, I think, so they can re-establish themselves from July through October or November and then rest till February. And I'm wondering whether it's possible to overwinter an allegedly annual verbena. It's verbena Lanai Twister Pink and it was more than I usually spend on plants ($5.50), so I'd like it to remain part of the family, if you get my drift. I have a hanging planter space all ready for it...
