What did you do in the garden today?

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

I'm sitting here with my laptop next to the huge African violet plant the previous owners left for me. It is getting ready to bloom. I've never bothered with African Violets before but this plant is huge. I'm thinking I need to divide it up into smaller plants. Any advice? I know I need to get AFV soil for it. Is there anything more I need know? It's over 12 inches in diameter and 6 inches tall from the soil line.

 

[MissChick@dee]

I'm sitting here with my laptop next to the huge African violet plant the previous owners left for me. It is getting ready to bloom. I've never bothered with African Violets before but this plant is huge. I'm thinking I need to divide it up into smaller plants. Any advice? I know I need to get AFV soil for it. Is there anything more I need know? It's over 12 inches in diameter and 6 inches tall from the soil line.

I love African violets...the only thing I remember about them is they need to be watered from the bottom...fill water from the drain dish so...a nice big drain dish would be good when you go
to pick out your new dish.
I too have a peace plant that needs repotting My problem is my house plants get too big! I repotted and trimmed my rubber plant Last Year. I need to repot my cuttings from it already!! And my original plant (valentine gift 8 years ago) has grown so much AGAIN...that it’s just crazy! Got some potting soil yesterday so I’ll start some seeds now and I’ll take care of my house plants. They are kinda sad.
I keep my patio plants in the garage over winter. As I get older I’ma gonna rethink that. Most of which are house plants that have adapted. I have gotten better...I can throw away cuttings lol and I don’t have to stick every living thing in dirt to “see what it does.”
Well...most times, I’m getting better lol.

 

[WthrLady]

You're going to need a bigger ant.

 

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

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I love African violets...the only thing I remember about them is they need to be watered from the bottom...fill water from the drain dish so...a nice big drain dish would be good when you go
to pick out your new dish.
I too have a peace plant that needs repotting My problem is my house plants get too big! I repotted and trimmed my rubber plant Last Year. I need to repot my cuttings from it already!! And my original plant (valentine gift 8 years ago) has grown so much AGAIN...that it’s just crazy! Got some potting soil yesterday so I’ll start some seeds now and I’ll take care of my house plants. They are kinda sad.
I keep my patio plants in the garage over winter. As I get older I’ma gonna rethink that. Most of which are house plants that have adapted. I have gotten better...I can throw away cuttings lol and I don’t have to stick every living thing in dirt to “see what it does.”
Well...most times, I’m getting better lol.

Your plants are quite lovely. Have you thought about propagating then selling the babies? Before I retired about 1/4 of the offices in the large complex I worked at had spider plant and poinsettias babies from my plants. I'm thinking I could have plant sales once or twice a year. Won't get rich, just spread plant love.

 

[WthrLady]

Rain! Real live honest to goodness LIQUID coming from the sky! OK, so we also have zero visibility fog, but I"LL TAKE IT!

 

[MissChick@dee]

Your plants are quite lovely. Have you thought about propagating then selling the babies? Before I retired about 1/4 of the offices in the large complex I worked at had spider plant and poinsettias babies from my plants. I'm thinking I could have plant sales once or twice a year. Won't get rich, just spread plant love.

Oh... where I live house plants are not a real big thing (small town) I do have a plant at the Historic Train Station. Another monster plant at the Senior Center. I had a yard sale once...I tried one free spider plant with every purchase
BUT you do have a good idea...I could sell or donate plants at the farmers market...hum

 

[MissChick@dee]

Rain! Real live honest to goodness LIQUID coming from the sky! OK, so we also have zero visibility fog, but I"LL TAKE IT!

Yay lol

 

[WthrLady]

My great-grandmother used to have one of those iron plant stand that held a dozen pots of African violets. I'm finding the great need for some AV lately. I might have to get a couple while I am out today, and put them in them in the north windows of the bathroom.

 

[pennyJo1960]

We have Sunshine and it is not snowing spring it 11 days away but go Zombie for like a week we still do the time crap

 

[WthrLady]

Agree on the time change crap.

Didn't get AV today. Splurged on new perfume and a new Loom today.

Then I got home and we had to break a huge ice jam in the lower pasture. It took over an hour and the snow to get there was knee deep. OMG. I'll post photos in a sec. Have to move them from the phone. One we got it broken, water flowed from UNDER the deep snow at a rate of over 10 gallons a SECOND. Had we been able to get over the barbed wire fence without drowning, we'd have gone into the neighboring pasture to break the next jam down. It's unoccupied this time of year so no animals in that field are in danger. (Mine are locked out of the pasture.)

But to go in that field, below the jam to break it would have been STUPID dangerous. So the slow draining from that field is backing up mine, but still mine is draining. We'll drop below freezing again tonight, so we'll be out breaking again tomorrow afternoon.

We also need to get the coats of the alpacas tomorrow. MMMMMM that's gonna smell yummy. I'll take them to the laundrymat on Monday in the city and use the GIANT machines to wash them. (The coats, not the alpacas.)

Bought more coir bricks while in town. I have the minerals and fertilizer to keep up with using them as starter "soil".

OH anyone else do natural seeds? I've been getting amazing seeds from Prairie Moon Nursery, it's naturalized wildflowers and grasses...native I mean.

Here's my pasture before

and here's after only an hour of draining. You can see where the water is draining from the left side, leaving whiter snow, kind of like sucking the colored juice from an icy drink.