Garden

[CJC]

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@gardenman wrote:

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@CJC wrote:

I have two Miss Violet butterfly bushes here in OH planted last spring. They are only 2 feet tall, but they'll be taller next year. Lots of butterfly visitors all summer. We lived in Deep South for 20 years before moving back north, and butterfly bushes do not do well at all in Florida's intense heat so I'm happy to see them flourishing here. Enjoy yours!  I miss my year around gardening hobby.....don't handle winter weather very well. 

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And that's why I grow stuff under my plant lights. I've got sixty-plus African Violet seedlings under my lights now. By January/February they should start flowering. Sitting by the plant lights in the gloom of winter helps brighten my spirits. They make winter more tolerable. I could never live north of the Arctic Circle where it stays dark for almost six months. I would go insane.

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Good idea!  I'll come sit at your house among the violets. Don't worry, I'll leave around May 1st. 

[Icegoddess]

I had 2 dwarfs up until this last winter.  They were never gangly or invasive.  I'm in zone 7b, so should be good, but the warm weather late in the year followed by an Arctic blash killed a lot of stuff that should be hardy all over town.  I thought I had lost both of them, but one came back from the roots.  I did lose my Confederate Jasmine though. My yellow jasmine was heavily damaged, yet a begonia I planted several years ago as an annual still returned.  

[Icegoddess]

@gardenman have you ever considered and Aerogarden?   I like mine for seed starting in spring.  I've also successfully rooted shrimp plant cuttings in it.  I thought they were surely a goner after they laid down flat after I put them in, but by the next morning they were back upright.  Many like to grow the mini tomatoes in them.  I'm not a tomato person, but I have grown filet green beans in mine too.  I wasn't happy with the lettuce though.  

[gardenman]

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@Icegoddess wrote:

@gardenman have you ever considered and Aerogarden?   I like mine for seed starting in spring.  I've also successfully rooted shrimp plant cuttings in it.  I thought they were surely a goner after they laid down flat after I put them in, but by the next morning they were back upright.  Many like to grow the mini tomatoes in them.  I'm not a tomato person, but I have grown filet green beans in mine too.  I wasn't happy with the lettuce though.  

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I've looked at them, but I have a 48" X 18"X 72" six shelf stainless steel shelving unit with plant lights that I use instead. Only three of the six shelves have lights on them now, but I can add more as needed. It gives me great space for indoor gardening.

[bells4me]

Mine have never grown.