04/26/2024 – besides trimming and feeding the plants with their specialized Miracle Gro water based solution, I transplanted the Tobasco pepper plants.
The locked garden needs to have the remainder the of the dead leaves and branches removed, but other than routine maintenances of the plants, that area is nearly completely for the spring.
04/22/2024 - I received and planted the lemongrass stalks four is a pot, but as they grow if they overcrowded I will repot a couple in another pot.
I also planted the climbing Moonflower seeds in the Out Sunny planters. They, like Morning Glories, are unique in their blooming behaviors. Whereas Morning Glories bloom in early hours of the day, Moonflowers bloom at dust and into the night. Moonflowers are also very fragrant flowers and fill the evening air with the scent of jasmine and vanilla.
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04/21/2024 – Today I setup the Better Boy planters with a cone and water bottle. It is never to early for them because the weather will be topping 90 degrees plus soon and I want the tomatoes plants to thrive. I am also thinking of placing them in a more sunny location. When I awake tomorrow morning, I will measure the amount of full sun those are getting in the garden. If they are getting an average of six hours a day, I will leave them where they are now.
Terracotta Self Watering Spikes
I also threw out the four young rosemary plants I recent bought. I am not sure why they died, but two of the four plants I left in the pots them arrived in and the other I transplanted in my raised bed, and strangely enough they all died within three day of delivery. I replaced them with the remaining thyme, basil and chives plants, which were in the window plant center. Luckily, I still have the older Rosemary plants. It looks a little straggly now, but it will fill out over time
All that is left for me to do is trim up the two yucca and corn plants. My husband (Fang) will help with the final clean up of the garden's grounds.
04/18/2024 –After some reflections, I decided that the baskets of the OutSunny planters are too small for the Better Boy tomatoes. From my recollection, I grew them in wooden half barrels because they were and are large indeterminate plants. Therefore, I transferred them to 7 gallon half barrels, with two plants in each barrels.
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| Young Better Boy Tomatoes plants |
As for the OutSunny planters, I want to plant some Moonflowers in them. I also, transplants the German thyme and chives in the raised bed.
I must postpone the other garden work I planned to do this weekend, for the chores I must do in the house.
"A woman’s work is never done", Proverbs 31.
So true
How to Grow Better Boy Tomatoes
Also I don’t have them yet, I went ahead and made the soil and fertilizer mixture them will need to grow.
I also top dressed the raised bed and transferred sweet basil and two rosemary plants in it. There is an older rosemary from a year or two ago that make up third plant. When get the German Thyme and Chives they fill in the extra space in the raised bed. I am thinking about getting some Lemon Grass to make another pot of herbs and maybe some Hot Pepper.
04.16.2024 - not much to say. The plants are doing, and all I needed to do was water them with Miracle Gro added.
Container Garden journal entry.
04/15/2024 - 04/15/2023 – yesterday, I spend time trimming and repotting plants. Before repotting the ferns, I trimmed away all of the dead and dried fronds and did away with some of the lower root. With the help of some rooting hormone, plant feed and Azomite (a natural mineral product) the ferns will generate new roots and fronds in a month or so I have learned that ferns look more graceful when their fronds are allowed to grow when not pressed against walls and fences
As with the three Monstera plants, I divided the huge planter of Mother-In-Law's Tongue (Sansevieria) plants, which can be partially seen in the previous post laying on its side. The reason for its position is that it was so heavy that it took both Stanley and I to sit it look right but being so heavy and nothing to prop it up, the planter just toppled over again. Just .like the ferns the Mother-In-Law's Tongue plants were treated with rooting hormone, plant feed and Azomite. Although, these plants can easily be rooted in plain water, I left the roots now them when I divided into five pots.
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| Before repotting 2024 |
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| How they looked in 2021 |
The photos below shows what the ferns and Mother-In-Law's Tongue plants look like now. The tape around the latter plants along with some sticks is to stabilize the plants into the old and new roots take hold, and the crates under each plant not only helps with drainage but also prevent roots from the pot from embedding into the ground.
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| Divided and repotted 2024 |
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| Before it needed repotting |
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| On its side and too heavy to stand on its own. |
04/10/2024 UPDATE- Yesterday afternoon the narcissists recognized themselves in this post and while heading out to work the narcissist irately attacked our greenhouse. As usual the zippers was ripped apart so that closing the greenhouse is possible and left waving in the wind.
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Hello, Darlings
I know that addressing my harassers is a little unsettling; however, leaving them to believe that that I am clueless of their actions insidious and criminal actions only makes them think I am stupid or cowardly, and only serves further their thoughts that their false sense of power over their intended victim, namely me, is successful. In truth, and like I have told them many times, my husband and I don’t want anything with them. Their narcissist behavior is something them will have accept and work out on their own, just leave us out of it.
Moving on with my journal entry…
04/09/2024 – Today I got out into my Mary Garden and blew out all but a few of the leaves. I put them where my husband pack them up and put them to the garage bend,. That is where we expect them stay for the next pick up. We do not want to see them in the back garden again. I still have lot to do back there, so I will do a little more tomorrow and each day or so afterward; and until the grounds and the plants my garden is in good shape. See photos below.
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Until next time,
Chow, Darlings
