I spent much of today getting in most of the rest of the garden. We’re supposed to get a high of 88F/31C This morning it was only 68F/20C, but the sun quickly became intense. What ever happened to the indifferent sun of my youth? Nowadays it feels like it is penetrating to bone. I still [...]
Last year I was screwing around with so many veggies and distracting myself in various ways until it got too late to plant datura. This year I’ve got the daturas in the ground already. I started (warning, nomenclature problems ahead):
Datura bernhardii, which as I remember is like a stramonium but smaller, the flowers are lavender [...]
I love growing plants from seed, especially when it’s successful.:) This year is working out pretty well along those lines. While it’s true that a number of seeds that needed cold stratification did not do well when transplanted into soil, others that I started directly in peat pellets or that needed warmth to germinate are [...]