it's been really hot here, but I've gotten into watering all of the outside plants every day (I water my aloe and haworthia once a week) and they seem to be doing pretty well! even the tropical hibiscus, somehow.
I'm especially happy about my lavender and the roses, I've mentioned previously I think that roses are special to me because of my grandmother (my grandfather would grow them in the backyard in these huge rose bushes for her and bring them in) and these are the first ones to ever grow and thrive. they're not purely red roses, but I do really like the pattern on them.
That's a really beautiful rose! I bet your grandparents would love the colors it's putting out.
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we had to cut down a native cherry tree last year because it was crowding the deck. a new one popped up just far enough away that we decided to keep it, and it is absolutely thriving!
we also have some weird fruiting trees out there, which are dropping all over the place. might be an almond tree? and another one might be a plum or peach tree? whoever planted these was really going wild.
Hah that's going to be my memorial plaque at the farm when I'm gone! I'm glad that native cherry decided to leave you with some offspring that were in a better place for you to enjoy.
Daily watering is likely far too often ... I'm not seeing quick useful links to peperone (as you can imagine, I'm getting a lot about pepperoni and pepperoncinis).
But if this is a C. annuum cultivar, these are adapted to arid climates. Let the plants tell you when they need water (droopy leaves); they spring back remarkably quickly, like in under an hour. It sounds like you're drowning them and ending up with other issues as a result.
Yea. I'll reduce watering. The seeds had an Italian label so that's all I know, thank you fornthr advice, I'll stop watering will maybe Thursday. Probably later
I forgot an onion in a cotton bag and it started sprouting with the heat. Thinking of planting it; should I just bury it with the shoots exposed? Want to get some paprika to deter deers too.
You might only get green onions off of it at this point, but burying it like you asked will certainly get you more, and more nutritious ones. I vote yes!
Might be hard to get a proper "lawn" of "cat grass" going with your little munchkin rolling around in there all the time, but it's definitely not bad for them 👍
We do have a couple containers of cat grass I rotate in so that they can have some to eat, but like you said getting a "lawn" out of the grass is difficult. It's usually very large, thick seeds that don't disperse very evenly
Wasn't this reported months ago? And zones didn't suddenly shift just because the USDA said so. They've shifted over time because of climate change. The USDA just finally got around to catching up.
I used to be news director for an NPR member station, and even I think this is sloppy work.
This is a tool derived from that report which directly shows how the user's local environment has changed. Kind of trippy to see that the environment of my childhood is not the same as the environment I'm living in now. It's a good educational tool.
That's not how I read the headline. Given that this story is so old (months and months), if it's newsworthy at all today, it should be "USDA Finally Updates Climate Maps for the First Time in a Decade."
Anyone who needs them has been paying attention to the climate for years. It's a neat bit of science reporting, but it's hardly "Here's What Suddenly Changed."
I see what you're saying. I wasn't aware that the USDA had updated the zones, so that was news to me at least. The appsite they built is neat. It does actually drive home that this is abnormal and will continue to accelerate in the future at least.
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