Dear are a major problem in my garden. They have entirely destroyed my hostas, oak leaf hydrangea, and butternut squash. They also defoliate do bunch of my raspberries (they eat around the thorns). I hate coming out to a previously lush garden and finding bare stems!
A more effective fence is on my to do list. I’ve read that 8 feet is effective but I don’t that’s feasible for us. I will update if I succeed at keeping them out.
This is year one for my go Goji berries. So far it’s going great it seems like they are going to be good producers with a long season, and vigorous growers. I’m hopeful that next year will see a significant harvest, if they survive the winter…
Unfortunately when you buy pots on the internet you get… Cheap pots.
These pots are extremely brittle as you can see the 2 outside pots were shattered during shipping.
I’m a little shaky on the id but I caught this guy crawling on my oakleaf hydrangea.
These are some pictures of my Passionvine. It was about 5 inches tall when I bought it last spring. Last summer it barely did anything, growing to 10 inches. I brought it in for the winter and it grew about 5 feet. I put it out for the summer this year and it grew to 30! I had hoped to get passionfruit but for some reason the flowers just kept falling off even after I tried to pollinate them. I’m not sure whether this was a problem with the pollination, whether the vine is not self-fertile, or whether the water conditions made it so that the fruit were dropping because of the lack of water because our summer was pretty dry.
I’m going to prune it by about a third and then bring it back in for the winter. Hopefully I can get another year of flowers out of this vine. I read that they usually last 3-5 years and sometimes longer.
I will also try to root some of the cuttings, hopefully creating some new vines.
I’m hoping that this is not raspberry mosaic disease. Only one leaf is affected. Fingers crossed.
It has been a year since I rescued a little limetree that my mom would have let die in the winter. So far this year I have two little limes, basically the same as my mom had last fall. Growing citrus in pots seems to be a slow endeavor. I’m hoping to keep it alive again in my Wintergarden and hopefully next year I will have more limes. Fingers crossed.
When I spotted this bug on my fig tree, I was floored. I had never seen a bug that was bright pink and blue! Isn’t nature amazing?
The people who owned our house planted lamb’s ear. While it died in its original location, it managed to spawn hundreds more around the property. Out of all those babies I found one with a genetic mutation that caused the leaves to be white and green instead of solid green. So pretty! I’m going to try to clone this one in the spring, probably through division (splitting one plant into two or more plants), but I might try to isolate it and force self-pollination which would most likely produce both normal and variegated babies. Wish me luck!
As you can see my aloe was falling over! It had a long bare stem at the bottom. There were a few pups sticking out so I took a leap of faith and cut off the large top.
Here you can see the tiny pups (aloe babies).
I am hoping to root the top and allow the pups to grow in the original pot. Will it work? We will see I guess.
This is the top. I am going to wait for roots before repotting. The one thing I know you should not do is put the top with no roots in water or wet potting soil. This will induce root/stem rot and kill the plant.