At long last: a new gardening posting \o/

Jun 01, 2015 20:18

Because all my ordered plants finally arrived last weekend (with bugs again, argh, fucking organic gardening companies, AAAAAAAAAAARGH), I realized it might really be time to show you what survived and what didn't and what I bought in April at Berliner Staudenmarkt (a plant market at Berlin Botanical Gardens that takes place annually in April and ( Read more... )

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Garden talk asugar June 5 2015, 23:44:30 UTC
Hi! Long time no talk! I've been around and a faithful reader but not found the time to reply. Glad you're now free of what sounded like it had become a toxic work environment ( ... )

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Re: Garden talk gelbes_gilatier June 6 2015, 12:49:29 UTC
Hi! Long time no talk!

Welcome back \o/ I missed your replies. How are you doing?

I can't imagine it doing well in your climate.

Yeah, that's what I thought :S Summers are supposed to be rather wet here but I'd been hoping that since we had a really, really dry spring (like, four to six weeks without rain, which is highly unusual here) it might come around but... it doesn't look like it. I think it's dead, after all :S My sister suggested rearing some plants from seeds next year instead of buying young plants so I'll try that (apparently, that worked for her. Maybe because plants reared from seeds get used to the climate and soil early on or something like that).

Do you feed them food designed for blueberries, azaleas and other acid lovers?I haven't bought any fertilizer yet since I read somewhere that it might interfere with the edibility of the berries but since I'm probably not going to have them this year anyway and it looks like it might need some support against the spider mites, acid lover fertilizer is definetly on the ( ... )

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