Post by nightmist on Apr 4, 2015 17:47:03 GMT -5
For some plants, it has been an absolutely grand success thus far.
Last fall this year's planting of european mandragora jumped right up, and it is growing apace in it's pipes in the basement. In another 4 years I can harvest my first ten year roots, gods willing and the creek don't rise.
Shortly thereafter, some salvia divinorum (I want to see if I can get those weird looking flowers) poked out of the dirt and shot right up, and it is thriving.
Since then I've gotten hellbore, english primroses, and meconopsis going.
The tomatoes are going great guns, the holy basil is growing apace, and the datura metel is coming on strong.
I have exactly one litchi tomato, and I may have to perform surgery to get the seed shell off it's head. It has hung in there this long, I might as well see if I can give it a hand.
The sweet peppers are still popping up sporadically, they seem to thrive for a week or two, then they wither from the top down and die.
The hot peppers are sulking, I have exactly one black hungarian that came up at all, and it is doing quite well.
I have one eggplant, and it is a thai yellow egg wherein I found a few seeds in an envelope that had gotten scrunched up in the back of a drawer.
the ground cherries have refused to germinate, that is a first for me. Usually they go nuts and try to take over the world.
The wormwood is just sitting there not germinating, the onions and the leeks have germinated so poorly that I could probably plant what I have in a couple of window boxes, and of course the petunias and the echinacea are sneering at me.
Some years I end up with more peppers than I can plant, and I almost always end up giving away allium starts. Litchi toamtoes either go nuts for me or do like they are this year and just don't go. I know both litchi tomatoes and peppers might sulk in the pots for a long time before they decide to germinate, so I'm not giving up just yet, though the clock is ticking down so far as if they will be far enough along to get anything out of them this year if they do come up.
Some day I will figure out why I can grow things like mandragora, but petunias are beyond me.
Or why I have no problems growing marigolds, but zinnias never sprout.
Last fall this year's planting of european mandragora jumped right up, and it is growing apace in it's pipes in the basement. In another 4 years I can harvest my first ten year roots, gods willing and the creek don't rise.
Shortly thereafter, some salvia divinorum (I want to see if I can get those weird looking flowers) poked out of the dirt and shot right up, and it is thriving.
Since then I've gotten hellbore, english primroses, and meconopsis going.
The tomatoes are going great guns, the holy basil is growing apace, and the datura metel is coming on strong.
I have exactly one litchi tomato, and I may have to perform surgery to get the seed shell off it's head. It has hung in there this long, I might as well see if I can give it a hand.
The sweet peppers are still popping up sporadically, they seem to thrive for a week or two, then they wither from the top down and die.
The hot peppers are sulking, I have exactly one black hungarian that came up at all, and it is doing quite well.
I have one eggplant, and it is a thai yellow egg wherein I found a few seeds in an envelope that had gotten scrunched up in the back of a drawer.
the ground cherries have refused to germinate, that is a first for me. Usually they go nuts and try to take over the world.
The wormwood is just sitting there not germinating, the onions and the leeks have germinated so poorly that I could probably plant what I have in a couple of window boxes, and of course the petunias and the echinacea are sneering at me.
Some years I end up with more peppers than I can plant, and I almost always end up giving away allium starts. Litchi toamtoes either go nuts for me or do like they are this year and just don't go. I know both litchi tomatoes and peppers might sulk in the pots for a long time before they decide to germinate, so I'm not giving up just yet, though the clock is ticking down so far as if they will be far enough along to get anything out of them this year if they do come up.
Some day I will figure out why I can grow things like mandragora, but petunias are beyond me.
Or why I have no problems growing marigolds, but zinnias never sprout.