How My Garden Grows, or Not, Sic: Journal Entry: 06/27/2024

 06/27/2024 - I picked a couple of Japanese Eggplants to air fry with some butternut squash today. I also repotted the four new pots Japanese Eggplants in a new pot. 

 

I then repotted the new three knock out roses I recently bought. Two them are replacements for the roses that were killed by a malicious person, and third one is being use to balance out the arrangement. The arrangement is one white rose bush between two rose bushes. The roses are smaller and cost less, than the larger white one. The moonflowers, white will bloom this fall,  are also there too. The remaining red rose bush from the first arrangement was relocated.

 

The fig trees and elephant plant have recovered from the attack. There has rain almost everyday, so I have been watering much less. my tomato plants have grown but flowering has failed, which is strange given the fact that the tabasco peppers are doing well, perhaps, I should move them to another location.

Evelyn’s Indoor Garden: ‘Gardening Indoors under Artificial Lights’ Journal Entry 06/05/2024

 Before going out into yard, I finished bathing the large houseplants. They, like the plants outside enjoy a good bathing of their leaves now and then, usually once a month.

Ponytail Palm - generic photo

 

How My Garden Grows, or Not, Sic: Journal Entry 06/05/2024

 My white "Knock Out" rose bush has died. I don’t know what was put in its barrel but I could not reverse it. It was in that barrel for two years without a problem. It was an easy plant to care for, and looked so beautiful and healthy earlier this year. The same is true of my Chicago fig trees and the Elephant Ear plants. They were targeted. All of them have either mysteriously died of some unknown substance or are struggling to live. I wish people would stay out of our yard. There are “no trespassing” signs and security cameras everywhere. However, I haven’t been able to catch the criminal attacking my plants because another criminal associated with them is turning off my network at night and has not been caught either. Worse my internet provider is not doing anything to find that criminal among them. I have reported these internet interruptions repeatedly. 

I also found cat poop floating on the top of the screen covering the kitchen containers that I use to reclaim water. I was so disgusted with the criminal that place it there that I forgot to take a picture; however, I dumped the water, cleaned the containers with soapy bleach and through the two draw sting screen netting in the washer. What a nasty minded criminal and to think he/she is one of our neighbors, who really should make an appointment with a shrink for his/herself.

He/she is probably responsible for the number homeless people wanting to start up conversations with me on the street and the buses. They have been reported. One woman was a real nut job or a good actress because of her tales of woes were so bad. I finally told her “enough was enough”, and I really hope she understood that I never want see her or her like again. Should she or any others homeless people attempt to strike conversation with me, I will call the police then and there.

As for all the security cameras, don't be fooled. We are on the side of the law after all, and the cameras are not there because we fear anyone, but no thanks to the narcissists and their erk, we are trying to catch thieves and other criminals trespassing and destroying our properties.

Nevertheless, I was up at 3 A.M. doing laundry and leaf feeding all the garden  plants with their specialized Miracle Gro. The same stuff I buy and use every year

How My Garden Grows, or Not, Sic: Journal Entry: 06.02.2024

06/02/2024 - On Friday May 31, 2024, because of the intense heat, I used my trusty water meter to determine which plants actually needed watering, and only watered them. This is the same method I use with my houseplants. I also added some fertilizer granules to the edible plants.

 

Because my back and hips have paining me a lot this week, I am forgoing removing the dead leave that have fallen from the oak trees, and doing it tomorrow.  It is these leaves that I asked my neighbor’s gardener to help me with but instead my monstera plants were cutting up. There was no mistaking what leaves I was talking about. What was done to my plants was plain meanness, and without provocation.

Evelyn’s Indoor Garden: ‘Gardening Indoors under Artificial Lights’ Journal Entry 06/02/2024

06/02/2024 –Today I am posting an image of the sago palm that we have owned for four years. Usually when the plant sprout new fronds I cut them off, but this year I decides to leave them on and show how well the sago palm grows under the plant lights. Whenever these fronds shoot up we think of plant life on an imaginary alien planet -- John Carter's Mars.

New Sago palm fromds 06/03/2024

 

 

Schefflera Amate 06/03/2023

 

 Wintergreen Weeping Fig Tree – Ficus xutting and parents 06/03/2024

In addition, the Schefflera Amate that I bought back in March because is growing well under just the plant lights, and of the four cutting from the “Wintergreen Weeping Fig Tree – Ficus”, that I was propagating only one rooted. The photos above shows it size (19 inches) in comparison to its parent (43 inches). Because these plants look better with multiple branches, I will try propagating more of them too group together in the future.

The photo above shows my dehydrator that is drying some mint and basil leaves, which are being places in the jars as the leaves dry to a crispy state but not burned.