Feels like back-to-school
Aug. 31st, 2009 08:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lblanchardI turned off the air conditioner last night and opened the windows. We didn't get our forecast 56F low, but 62F was good enough. It feels like time to buy marble-covered notebooks and sharpen my Dixon Ticonderoga #2 pencils in preparation for a new school year.
Instead, I puttered around in the back yard a bit. Three days of heavy rain had left me with considerable water in pot saucers, etc. I collected two 2-gallon bucketsful, which I dumped on the plants that never get rained on.
All the amaryllis, the mature ones and the young ones from the 2006 sowing, are inside on a moderatly sunny window. After they get a few weeks to dry out, they'll get to spend some time in the dark and then I'll start the cycle over again in January.
Last winter I reached my coleus overwintering limit, and the plants showed some stress. Of the 24 or so I have, I think I will only overwinter about a dozen, although I reserve the right to change my mind.
Instead, I puttered around in the back yard a bit. Three days of heavy rain had left me with considerable water in pot saucers, etc. I collected two 2-gallon bucketsful, which I dumped on the plants that never get rained on.
All the amaryllis, the mature ones and the young ones from the 2006 sowing, are inside on a moderatly sunny window. After they get a few weeks to dry out, they'll get to spend some time in the dark and then I'll start the cycle over again in January.
Last winter I reached my coleus overwintering limit, and the plants showed some stress. Of the 24 or so I have, I think I will only overwinter about a dozen, although I reserve the right to change my mind.
