soggy donkey herder on Nostr: Yesterday I prepped the tender plants for the cold. I don’t know if it’ll be ...
Yesterday I prepped the tender plants for the cold. I don’t know if it’ll be enough, but it’ll help them.
I cut the scraggly little roses back to short sticks and pruned the two bigger fancy roses into better shapes. The washing machine sized wild rose just got a nod of approval - you’ll do, pig. I dumped some hay piles on the dahlias, which I did not dig up for winter because we don’t usually get Arctic Blasts.
I’ve got three little manuka shrubs that I grew from seed last year, and I absolutely buried them in hay. Two are in the most protected nook on the whole property, in the ground, and one poor little gallon-pot-sized shrub is in a big planter. I packed the whole thing with hay but I’m not really hopeful for that one.
Last summer I was trying to clear out some raspberry runners, but I ended up feeling sorry for them and transplanting them into like a dozen 2-gallon pots and stashing them in the strawberry garden. I moved all the pots to the super-protected nook, so hopefully they won’t freeze to death.
I hayed a few more random things - the new grapevine (but not the old one, I think it’s plenty well established). A ridiculous little azalea I rescued from a pot last summer and planted in the ground - it’s finally got room to grow and it was, unfortunately, starting to bloom. One of the new blueberries, but not the old one right beside it.
We’ll see how it all does, I guess!
I cut the scraggly little roses back to short sticks and pruned the two bigger fancy roses into better shapes. The washing machine sized wild rose just got a nod of approval - you’ll do, pig. I dumped some hay piles on the dahlias, which I did not dig up for winter because we don’t usually get Arctic Blasts.
I’ve got three little manuka shrubs that I grew from seed last year, and I absolutely buried them in hay. Two are in the most protected nook on the whole property, in the ground, and one poor little gallon-pot-sized shrub is in a big planter. I packed the whole thing with hay but I’m not really hopeful for that one.
Last summer I was trying to clear out some raspberry runners, but I ended up feeling sorry for them and transplanting them into like a dozen 2-gallon pots and stashing them in the strawberry garden. I moved all the pots to the super-protected nook, so hopefully they won’t freeze to death.
I hayed a few more random things - the new grapevine (but not the old one, I think it’s plenty well established). A ridiculous little azalea I rescued from a pot last summer and planted in the ground - it’s finally got room to grow and it was, unfortunately, starting to bloom. One of the new blueberries, but not the old one right beside it.
We’ll see how it all does, I guess!