Adding 2 new #SnapPea varieties to our #FoodGardens this year. Royal snap(deep burgundy) & honey snap(pale yellow) - both are edible raw or cooked. I have 6 of each in my starter pots & transplanting them into beds today.
My delayed #SaanichOrganics seeds vid will be up later today 👩🌾
I have a dormancy question. This is the first one for my one year old Venus Flytraps from seed. I seeded them way to close together (I know better now). I know the best time for separating them out is during the dormancy period, though when is best within that? Is it now when they are dormant for about a month or so with some green on them still or later closer to spring. If the latter do I just move the roots and rhizomes?
Earlier this year I decided I was going to try to grow tomatoes. I only have a small garden, but I managed to find a mini-greenhouse so that I could give the young plants a head start during the sometimes chilly Spring weather in northern England.
I bought lovely peat-free compost for them to live in, and dutifully watered and fed the plants. And during the couple of weeks of warm weather we had in late spring they flourished.
But now for the last month or so I've had lots and lots of very large, very plump, and very very green tomatoes.
I don't know what gods hang out on the Fediverse - only the coolest ones no doubt - but if any of them read this, could you please send just one week of weather that's sunny and warm (not hot, I don't want Med-level hot, just warm) to north west England.
Getting ready to harvest and plant the Venus Flytrap seedlings. This year I am trying something different and working with live sphagnum moss. The idea is to share the water and help with water retention and PH. I won't be dropping the seeds straight into the moss as it seems that it would overtake the seedlings pretty easily, but trying it as a bedding type thing. The seedling container is a mini-greenhouse with a ventilated dome. #carnivorousplants#mosstodon#florespondence#plants@plants
Oops, something went wrong. Two pots, same soil, same water, same sun, both ufo chilli seeds. The plants in the left pot have died, but the plant in the right pot is doing very well.
The movers mentioned my plants and I completely forgot about that. I have a lot of plants! Can someone advise me on what you might have done if you moved and had a lot of houseplants, some of them very delicate? #moving#plants
"Duke University has decided to close its herbarium, a collection of 825,000 specimens of plants, fungi and algae that was established more than a century ago. The collection, one of the largest and most diverse in the country, has helped scientists map the diversity of plant life and chronicle the impact of humans on the environment.
The university’s decision has left researchers reeling."
The wife and I also went to Lowe's today and bought some new flowers.
We got a red rose in honor of her mother who passed away February 2023 due to cancer, since we already have a yellow rose in honor of my dad who passed away July 2021.
Celosia is the little plant with various colored flowers, then a dark orange and yellow pansy, and a white and purple dianthus.
Please help, Mastodon gardeners and plant experts! I was away for about a month, and came back to find this monster of a plant in my yard. It’s in a location that shouldn’t be growing anything (full sun, gets very hot, all other plants there died years ago, etc.). Occasionally small, familiar weeds pop up but nothing like this. Anytime know what it is? A new weed? Uninvited but friendly bush? Man-eating alien in disguise? Help!
We can give the extra plants that love to volunteer in the #gardens and exchange a few #herbs, #trees, plants, or garden tools that people want to share.
Here is the link to the FB group if you want to find some inspiration and start some for your community. It is my last reason to still use FB.
Good ground cover plants? (DK)
What are you using as ground cover?...