Need pictures right now!!!No pretties to show but I finally found where my husband hides the hedge trimmer. Now the hedges (orange blossom) are the height *I* want them to be. Kumquats also got a really good haircut and I lack the blisters I normally get doing it by hand.
For me, this is my least productive time of year - it's simply too hot and wet for things to grow well apart from Asian vegetables like snake beans - the soil is now to warm for bulbs and the fruit flies get pretty much everything else. I've got peanuts in the veggie beds to refresh the soil - they love this weather. I should start seeing flowers set on the citrus fruit soon; we are having a bad year for lemons but my kumquats are spectacularly fecund. There's a decent amount of flowers on the pomegranate too.Southern hemisphere ladies, how's the season going?!
Need pictures right now!!!
It's fun to look at all that happy green now that we finally have snow here in the northern hemisphere.
I assume the curry tree is fragrant? I do love some pandan rice; that would be so neat to harvest fresh leaves, along with my own citrus, pomegranates, year-round rosemary, and coffee! I'm envious of your native stingless bees, too!I have curry tree, rosemary and pandan palms also for a bit of herbage
I have a friend who has hives, she has to tell people not to swat the flies in her garden as they're actually native bees. Those things LOVE glue! A few years back I was working on a mine and a contractor turned up who had native bees nesting inside his equipment trailer - he's rock up to a site, open the canopy and they'd fly out, do their bee thing and come back at night. Anyway, they zoomed in on the dealer stickers I had on my ute, and the call-signs stuck on down the side, and in two days they ate their way through the adhesive and my stickers all fell off.I assume the curry tree is fragrant? I do love some pandan rice; that would be so neat to harvest fresh leaves, along with my own citrus, pomegranates, year-round rosemary, and coffee! I'm envious of your native stingless bees, too!
Spring can't be here already! Well, it's not here - will still be a few weeks before the early bloomers show.Hellebore time. Crocuses are up, too. I wonder how many of my bulbs rotted in our very wet fall and winter.
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Bulbs are on my list for next year. I think I planted 4 bulbs about 10 years ago. They're still coming up (how can that be?), but the deer get them every year (tulips).Spring can't be here already! Well, it's not here - will still be a few weeks before the early bloomers show.
I planted some bulbs last fall that I'm really looking forward to seeing. Hope they made it.
I've had daffodils - chose them both because I like them and they're poisonous to rodents. Tulips aren't, so I didn't want to deal with having the bulbs dug up and eaten all of the time.Bulbs are on my list for next year. I think I planted 4 bulbs about 10 years ago. They're still coming up (how can that be?), but the deer get them every year (tulips).
I still haven't decided about a veggie garden this year. It will only be the second time in many years that I don't have one. But right now it just seems too difficult.
Oh, maybe just put in a few herbs - I'm always so happy at how much they add to every dish and how easy they are to grow! Saves a fortune in $$$ and makes such a huge difference.
I hope that is my experience with the 2 savoy cabbage starts I planted. I may be seriously delusional to think I have room for cabbage, but since I've never grown it I don't really know how much room it takes.I'm happy to report peppers and broccoli don't need as much room as I thought.