I have quite a few houseplants that still need moving up, but need to get more potting soil and keeping what I have for the garden plants that will need space more urgently. Meanwhile I've spread the fronds of my asparagus fern held in place with halved chopsticks- thinking by the time I get around to repotting the plant, the stems will hold themselves in place- more evenly spaced and attractive.
I keep peeking under the mulch wondering if my rhubarb made it through the winter- and it did!
I did not protect my camellia at all this winter- once or twice just knocked snow off it when the branches were getting bent down. Seems it did fine- there's plenty of fat buds and I'm hoping for blooms- I see a hint of pink color!
One of my newer plants, the st. john's wort, also came through the winter just fine:
and the borage I moved into a pot is okay too (though it looks like slugs have found it)
I never gave this 'wild' mint any special attention, but this spring moved it into a larger pot with some better soil. It's already responding well
Potted up the leaf beet chard seedlings. Ate the extras I pinched off from sprouted clusters.
Next to go into paper pots will be the second set of marigolds, and the sweet peas. But I'm holding off a week or so for reasons in next post.
Our rhubarb is doing fantastic this year. We just have it in a pot, and put a bucket over it when the pink shoots came up, and now it's nearly ready to harvet.
ReplyDeleteI always thought rhubarb would get too big for a pot? Mine has trouble making it through the hot summers we have here.
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