How My Garden Grows, or Not, Sic: Journal Entry: 05/28/2024.

05/28/2024 – Yesterday, I gave the smaller plants some water with miracle gro. Today, I cleared away the dead leaves and broken branches.

Japanese Eggplants Floweing 05/28/2024

Tobasco peppers  growing 05/28/2024

Evelyn’s Indoor Garden: ‘Gardening Indoors under Artificial Lights’ Journal Entry 05/25/2024

 05/25/2024 – the parlor palm love it inside the house and has sprouted new fronds. On Thursday, may 22, 2024, bought a Tri-Color Dracaena, Canna Kaleidoscope Lily Garden Perennial Outdoor/indoor Plant and a Birds Nest Leslie Fern (Asplenium nidus).
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Canna Kaleidoscope Lily

The plant can absolutely stand on its own as a foliage plant, yet when outdoors it produces showy, long-lasting, large red flowers.

 

Where to place a Canna Lily indoors?   

Light
A good place is south-facing window that provide plenty of bright light and warmth for a canna lily to grow. They do best in long-lasting, direct light less than 1 foot from a window.

Watering/fertilizing
Canna Lily is a relatively rare houseplant that needs regular watering to thrive. Canna Lily likes soil that is well draining. You may want to supplement with a gentle, organic fertilizer throughout the peak growing season.

Artificial Grow Lights
Position the plant lights between 12-36 inches above and to the sides of the plants, and keep them on for a solid 8-12 hours.

Like the Tri Color Dracaena, I bought this plant for it deep Burgundy and green leaves. I learned that it will flower under the led grow lights that I have setup for all my indoor plant, but that for what I want out of the plant is best to cut off the flowers when they appear. I will also try using a forage fertilizer instead of flowering one to encourage the leave growth, and hope the plant maintain the Burgundy and green leaf colors.

 
Tri Color Dracaena
Other names: Dragon Tree

 Colorations
Ribbon-like green leaves with red and cream stripes; can be used as an accent tabletop or floor plant; tolerates low light areas.

Sunlight/ Plant Light
•    Dracaena marginata does well in medium to bright indirect light or dappled sun, which makes them a great candidate for growing under plant lights alone. It is a slow growing indoors. Mature height 8 feet indoor and spread up to 3 feet wide. However, it can reach 30ft tall outdoors.

Temperature/ Humidity
•    Dracaena plants require warm temperatures to thrive. Ideal temperatures range between 65 and 90 ºF outdoors and average house temperatures indoors. However, the plant will start to decline at temperatures below 55 ºF.
 
Water
•    Dracaena marginata is plant do not do well in consistently moist or soggy soil. It is also a drought-tolerant plant up to a point, and it should only be watered when the soil has dried thoroughly. Rule of thumb, it is best to under watering, than to overwater.
 
Soil/Roots
•    Dracaena plants like good quality potting mix. Soil amendments can include coco coir or perlite up to 25% to improve aeration.
Flowering
•    Dracaena marginata blooms small white flowers in the spring once it reaches maturity, which can take five years or longer. That said, these plants rarely flower indoors.
 
Fertilization
•    Dracaena marginata do not require much fertilization to thrive. To give them a boost during the growing season or refresh the soil, feed them with a balanced, water-soluble fertilizer diluted at half strength once a month. Feed your Dracaena from spring through summer, but do not fertilize in the winter.
 
Propagation
•    Stem cuttings are the most reliable way to propagate a Dracaena plant. Using a clean, sharp blade, cut the stem away from the mother plant and allow it to callus over a couple days.
•    Callused stems can then be placed directly in the soil. While the Dracaena is rooting, keep the soil lightly moist by misting it daily but do not soak the soil. Until your Dracaena has established roots, it only needs minimal water.
•    Cuttings can also be placed in water while they are rooting. Change the water once a week. Keep an eye on your cutting and put it in soil once you see roots that have grown 2-3” long.
•    Place the cuttings in a warm, bright spot.
•    Stem cuttings also encourage the parent plant to produce new growth
 
Diseases
•    Dracaena marginata are tough, low-maintenance plants and are not especially susceptible to pests or diseases. The most common issue with these plants tends to be root or stem rot by overwatering. Luckily, when in the house, pests and diseases on plants is rare. However, with all houseplants a weekly check for mealybugs, scales, aphids and spider mites is preventive care. On Dracaena, it is best to look for pests in the nooks and crannies of the stems where leaves meet the stems.
 
Maintenance (Pruning, Legginess, Repotting)
•    These plants require very little maintenance to remain happy. As the plant grows, lower leaves may start to fall off. This is perfectly normal. New foliage will generate from the top. Prune away any unhealthy looking leaves by running your fingers through the leaves gently from bottom to top. Dead leaves should detach from the plant easily.
•    These plants prefer to be somewhat root bound and will only need to be repotted once every two to three years. When repotting select a pot that is two to three inches larger in diameter.
 
Toxicity
•    Dracaena marginata are toxic to pets and humans. Ingesting this plant can lead to gastrointestinal discomfort. Keep out of reach of children and pets

 
Birds Nest Leslie Fern (Asplenium nidus)

They prefer medium to bright indirect light, high humidity, and moist, well-drained soil. Because they thrive in warm, humid environments, these ferns make an excellent choice for a bathroom. Bird's nest ferns have a slow growth rate and grow more slowly and remain smaller when kept indoors versus outdoors
These ferns have long, erect bright green fronds that grow from a central rosette. Unlike some other ferns, which grow feathery leaflets, bird's nest ferns have smooth, lance-shaped fronds that sometimes develop gentle ripples when grown with sufficient light.

Bird's Nest Fern Care

Light
Bird’s nest ferns grow well in filtered sunlight to partial shade. Don’t expose them to direct sunlight other than the very early morning sun. Harsh direct sunlight can burn the leaves. Indoors, an east- or north-facing window is ideal.

These plants like soil that’s loose and rich in organic matter with excellent drainage. A peat-based potting mix is good for container plants.
Water

 
These ferns prefer consistent soil moisture, but do not do well sitting in soggy soil. Water whenever the top inch of soil is dry. Avoid watering directly into the center of the plant, as this can encourage mold growth and rot in the dense nest. Aim water at the soil to avoid wetting the fronds.

Temperature and Humidity
Bird’s nest ferns thrive in temperatures between 60 and 80 degrees Fahrenheit. This plant can tolerate temperatures down to 50 degrees, but anything colder can harm the plant, especially with prolonged exposure. Indoors, protect your plant from air conditioning or heating vent drafts.
This fern prefers high humidity and moist environments, such as a bathroom, greenhouse, or terrarium. You can also run a humidifier near the plant to create a more humid environment.

Fertilizer
During the fern's growing season, which is spring through the early fall, feed once a month with a balanced liquid fertilizer diluted to half strength. Apply fertilizer to soil not fronds, as direct contact with fertilizer can burn foliage. Stop feeding in the fall, then resume the following spring.

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I also fed and watered all the other indoor plants.

How My Garden Grows, or Not, Sic: Journal Entry: 05/25/2024

 05/25/2024 - On Thursday afternoon I bought a couple of oregano plants, which I repotted this morning. That evening I rinsed the Sevin from the plants and only watered those that needed it. The barrel in which the white roses are still has too much water in it. The rose is trying the bud but they are small, I will not water the plant until I can nub the barrel easily which would mean it is drier and actually need it.

 

 

 

How My Garden Grows, or Not, Sic: Journal Entry: 05/192024

05/19.2024 – As stated in my last entry, I cleared out the dead leaves and branches from the three oak trees; and just as I thought, it is beneficial to clean the backyards once a week so not to have more leaves than necessary.

How My Garden Grows, or Not, Sic: Journal Entry: 05/18/2024

05/18/2024 – Today I repotted the new herbs. They are parsley, eucalyptus, lemon balm and lavender plants. I also trimmed the dead blooms off of the flowering plants.   

 

Fred needs a coat of Sevin. There are thrips on his leaves. It was these thrips that prompt me to over spray the roses earlier this month. 

The white is showing signs of recovery from whatever that miscreant put in it container. Tomorrow I will clean up the dead leaves. By not do it on the Mother Day holiday, there is a larger amount back there than what I cleared out two Sundays ago. 

 

How My Garden Grows, or Not, Sic: Journal Entry: 05/17/2024

 05/17/2024 – I have been monitoring my gardens since I posted my May 7th entry. The reason is that the narcissists took advanced of what I wrote that day and put some chemical in my container that has my white roses. They also pulled up the reserved water bottles that setup for the plants that need the extra water to stave off the heat and drought. Those water bottles take up to 7 days to empty, but the narcissists pulled them up the same night that I put them out there. Whatever they added was bad chemical that caused the white its good leaves. I have not refilled the bottles yet.

 I KNOW WHAT I DID TO MY PLANTS, NOTHING I DID CAUSE THIS SUDDEN LEAP DROP! STAY OFF MY PLANTS AND GREENHOUSE!!!

Another neighbor is jumping the fence and turning off the security cameras because the birds, cats and wind are activating the alarms. They do this with no regards to the fact that those cameras of up because of the crimes they committed against up and that we are no fools to believe that they would come to our aide should we ever needed help. And, yes, there is someone who is also turning off our internet at night and sometimes when we get deliveries. I believe it is a bad internet tech that came out here but did not do him job and have been corrupted by our bad neighbors.

It is clear that these narcissists, and other bad people they enlisted to commit crimes for them, thought I was uneducated and mentally impaired person because the  lies those Southside drug pusher families andscammers that they have been associated with since the repair of roof their roof a couple years ago told them; however, now that these neighbors of ours know different , meaning the truth and understand that they were lied to, they cannot bring themselves to leave us alone and move on with their own lives.

We learned not to trust them and to report their trespasses and damages they do. The bible said we should forgive them; however, it also states that there are some trespasses that are outright hateful sins and can never be forgiven.

To you I write about:

YOU DON’T WANT TO READ ENTRIES LIKE THIS, AND THEN STOP TRESPASSING!!! STOP DAMAGING OUR PROPERTIES!!!