Plant activity
10 February 2023 11:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
igenlodeI did a little watering and feeding for the first time this year, as the pots felt suspiciously light (previously they have been raised up to keep them from sitting in a constant puddle!) Repotted the mullein and the holly, both of which were terribly potbound -- they should probably have been root-pruned, since I don't actually want them getting a lot bigger, but I shrink from inflicting wounds on the plant when it is not actively growing and when more hard frost is forecast.
I'd like to plant some seeds, since everything in nature is busy germinating (I have been thinning out the mass of poppy seedlings in the yellow poppy pot, and around the miniature rose), but again there seems little point, even in the mini-greenhouse, if more frosts are coming. Things do catch up with amazing speed once the temperatures are right...
I found a worm in one of the bags of dry compost that I emptied out of the pots last autumn; to my amazement, it was still alive. (The compost was nicely friable but not quite dry -- I found a seed had germinated in it, growingincredibly ætiolated, and transplanted it to one of the blind narcissus pots to see what would happen -- which is I suppose how the worm managed to survive!) I did do my best to evacuate all the worms before bagging up the compost, but evidently missed that one.
I have also removed the incredibly thick layer of moss from on top of the holly and the spring onion pots; I had alllowed it to stay in order to retain moisture during the summer months, but right now it is making the dry pots almost impossible to water since the drops just roll off! (I should probably do the same to the sage....)
I'd like to plant some seeds, since everything in nature is busy germinating (I have been thinning out the mass of poppy seedlings in the yellow poppy pot, and around the miniature rose), but again there seems little point, even in the mini-greenhouse, if more frosts are coming. Things do catch up with amazing speed once the temperatures are right...
I found a worm in one of the bags of dry compost that I emptied out of the pots last autumn; to my amazement, it was still alive. (The compost was nicely friable but not quite dry -- I found a seed had germinated in it, growingincredibly ætiolated, and transplanted it to one of the blind narcissus pots to see what would happen -- which is I suppose how the worm managed to survive!) I did do my best to evacuate all the worms before bagging up the compost, but evidently missed that one.
I have also removed the incredibly thick layer of moss from on top of the holly and the spring onion pots; I had alllowed it to stay in order to retain moisture during the summer months, but right now it is making the dry pots almost impossible to water since the drops just roll off! (I should probably do the same to the sage....)