What did you do in the garden today?

[igorsMistress]

Yeah, nm. I couldn't take the pressure... I brought it into the sunroom again. I checked it a few days ago and the leaves were a pale green. I checked it again after I posted and most of the leaves have turned yellow. So I broke down and moved it indoors.

ETA - we've had a boatload of rain recently so it could be turning yellow from either too much rain or the cold or both. I'll watch it over the next few weeks and see what happens

I haven’t ever grown one in a pot, but mine doesn’t like too much love. In winter
It gets watered every two to four weeks depending on weather. Even when it’s 110+ in summer it doesn’t like to be overwatered, but it does like a consistent schedule and the same for fertilization. In ground mine gets fertilization just a few times a year in the pot it may need more though. I have found this site to be very helpful in general, here’s what it says about growing in a pot

https://www.citrus.com/blog/how-to-grow-a-meyer-lemon-tree-in-a-pot/

 

[Sammster]

Territorial seed order and Baker Creek seed orders arrived! View attachment 2953495View attachment 2953496

That is going to be quite the garden!

 

[igorsMistress]

Just venting, so please scroll past because I have nothing about the garden, I just had a really extremely crappy day.

My car is still stranded on Vashon Island after last week's snowstorm, so today we got up really early to go get it. Drove an hour to catch the early ferry, only to be told by the worker in the ticket booth, "no boats" due to worker shortage from covid. She said there might be an afternoon shift, come back at 1:40. So we thought, let's not drive home, let's walk around the park and maybe visit the zoo, that'll kill 5 hours and be fun.

After walking a couple miles and visiting some gardens that would be beautiful at some other time of year, the sole on my old but barely-used hiking boots fell off. Slipping and sliding with one leg shorter than the other, we gave up on the walk, made our way back to the car, drove home, and I changed into different footwear, then we headed back to catch the afternoon ferry. only to run into a road closure.

We bumbled through the city as well we could, through unfamiliar streets, jerk tailgaters and inopportune train crossings, only to find out the ferries were cancelled for the rest of the day.

All we could do was go back home, but I figured we could stop by the store (part of the company where we both work) and maybe resuscitate part of the wasted day by getting the faulty hiking boots returned or replaced.

Huge fail! As soon as the manager found out we worked for the DC, he became really condescending. I wanted him to look up the SKU of the boots and see if there was a recall due to faulty construction, but all he did was look up my personal purchase history and said, "I can't find any record of you buying these boots." I asked him, "can't you just scan the UPC on this tag and get the SKU?" and he smirked, "that's not how this works," I was tempted to tell him, let me come over to your side of the counter and I'll show you how to make it work, but figured this wouldn't help my cause at all. After realizing I wasn't going to get any positive results, I asked him, "could you at least dispose of these, since you have a way to recycle them and I don't?" And he said, "We don't do that - dispose of them yourself." So we walked out, and he yelled after me loudly, " You should know better than this!" I muttered "F U" under my breath, with a mask, and was perfectly courteous to the young man at the exit, wishing him a good day as well.

Now I'm all paranoid that Mr. Condescending might have called Human Resources to try to get me fired for attempting to "scam the company," which is not true at all. At least I have proof I bought the boots from my company (the brand name is on them, and I have a witness who saw me pick them up) and I took photos of the faulty soles. Plus, if he really believed I was a scammer, he wouldn't have told me to dispose of the boots myself, would he? He would have insisted on taking them, to prevent me or some random dumpster diver from taking them to a different store to reattempt the scam. In fact, this is what Loss Prevention tells store salespeople to do. So he can go fudge himself.

Then when we finally got home, after a whole day of achieving nothing, we got a text that our late dog Lily's ashes were ready to be picked up. The cremation place did a really nice job, a wooden urn with her name engraved, a clay oval with her paw print, and a little sample of her hair.

The only thing keeping me happy today:

I think you need a few of those.

 

[Sueby]

@littledog sorry about your awful day.

Yeah, nm. I couldn't take the pressure... I brought it into the sunroom again. I checked it a few days ago and the leaves were a pale green. I checked it again after I posted and most of the leaves have turned yellow. So I broke down and moved it indoors.

ETA - we've had a boatload of rain recently so it could be turning yellow from either too much rain or the cold or both. I'll watch it over the next few weeks and see what happens

I have grown grapefruit, lemon & lime - all hate being doted upon. I live in CT so it gets cold here, they come into the unheated sunroom which gets to just about freezing in the winter & get ignored. I water them, but that's it. They go out as soon as it gets nice enough, in case of a small frost I throw a blanket over them. They thrive. I can't imagine it's the temps that have caused you problems, does it get below freezing where you're keeping them? Mine have seen low 30s with no ill effects. They definitely don't like wet feet & will turn yellow & drop leaves.

 

[TJAnonymous]

Just venting, so please scroll past because I have nothing about the garden, I just had a really extremely crappy day.

My car is still stranded on Vashon Island after last week's snowstorm, so today we got up really early to go get it. Drove an hour to catch the early ferry, only to be told by the worker in the ticket booth, "no boats" due to worker shortage from covid. She said there might be an afternoon shift, come back at 1:40. So we thought, let's not drive home, let's walk around the park and maybe visit the zoo, that'll kill 5 hours and be fun.

After walking a couple miles and visiting some gardens that would be beautiful at some other time of year, the sole on my old but barely-used hiking boots fell off. Slipping and sliding with one leg shorter than the other, we gave up on the walk, made our way back to the car, drove home, and I changed into different footwear, then we headed back to catch the afternoon ferry. only to run into a road closure.

We bumbled through the city as well we could, through unfamiliar streets, jerk tailgaters and inopportune train crossings, only to find out the ferries were cancelled for the rest of the day.

All we could do was go back home, but I figured we could stop by the store (part of the company where we both work) and maybe resuscitate part of the wasted day by getting the faulty hiking boots returned or replaced.

Huge fail! As soon as the manager found out we worked for the DC, he became really condescending. I wanted him to look up the SKU of the boots and see if there was a recall due to faulty construction, but all he did was look up my personal purchase history and said, "I can't find any record of you buying these boots." I asked him, "can't you just scan the UPC on this tag and get the SKU?" and he smirked, "that's not how this works," I was tempted to tell him, let me come over to your side of the counter and I'll show you how to make it work, but figured this wouldn't help my cause at all. After realizing I wasn't going to get any positive results, I asked him, "could you at least dispose of these, since you have a way to recycle them and I don't?" And he said, "We don't do that - dispose of them yourself." So we walked out, and he yelled after me loudly, " You should know better than this!" I muttered "F U" under my breath, with a mask, and was perfectly courteous to the young man at the exit, wishing him a good day as well.

Now I'm all paranoid that Mr. Condescending might have called Human Resources to try to get me fired for attempting to "scam the company," which is not true at all. At least I have proof I bought the boots from my company (the brand name is on them, and I have a witness who saw me pick them up) and I took photos of the faulty soles. Plus, if he really believed I was a scammer, he wouldn't have told me to dispose of the boots myself, would he? He would have insisted on taking them, to prevent me or some random dumpster diver from taking them to a different store to reattempt the scam. In fact, this is what Loss Prevention tells store salespeople to do. So he can go fudge himself.

Then when we finally got home, after a whole day of achieving nothing, we got a text that our late dog Lily's ashes were ready to be picked up. The cremation place did a really nice job, a wooden urn with her name engraved, a clay oval with her paw print, and a little sample of her hair.

The only thing keeping me happy today:

Usually when I have days like this I feel like it's God's way of telling me "While you may feel like you are pushing a boulder uphill, I'm really saving you from levels of heartache that you are blissfully unaware of had I allowed your plans to go as you expected..."

But, of course, I'm an optimist so I like to make Lemonade from lemons.... (OK, maybe some tequila and salt to go along on select days....)

 

[TJAnonymous]

@littledog sorry about your awful day.


I have grown grapefruit, lemon & lime - all hate being doted upon. I live in CT so it gets cold here, they come into the unheated sunroom which gets to just about freezing in the winter & get ignored. I water them, but that's it. They go out as soon as it gets nice enough, in case of a small frost I throw a blanket over them. They thrive. I can't imagine it's the temps that have caused you problems, does it get below freezing where you're keeping them? Mine have seen low 30s with no ill effects. They definitely don't like wet feet & will turn yellow & drop leaves.

Yes, it has been down into the teens at night several times this week. Single digits with the wind chill.... But it has also rained several inches in the past 10 days... I do have an overflow hole on the tub but I know lemons don't like wet feet. In this case, it's probably suffering from both cold and wet.

 

[Sueby]

Yes, it has been down into the teens at night several times this week. Single digits with the wind chill.... But it has also rained several inches in the past 10 days... I do have an overflow hole on the tub but I know lemons don't like wet feet. In this case, it's probably suffering from both cold and wet.

Ahhh, that makes sense. Hopefully it will recover.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I did an order from Dollar Seed.. Saved the site.. Only bought a moss flower seed and t shirt.
I was gone all day yesterday .. no Garden work.
@littledog I would have walked all over him. I commend you

 

[BReeder!]

I learned something today, and feel a but dumb for not knowing it. Cabbage loopers are "inchworms." We always called them incheworms here and I kept wondering what a cabbage looper was. I decided to google that today... duh!

Anyway, they are not all that common here according to the University of Illinois extention site. Hoping that's good news for the cabbage I'm intending to plant this year. I didn't see any on the brussels last year and they apparently enjoy those too. I actually only recall seeing them a few times in my life here.

 

[jerryse]

I learned something today, and feel a but dumb for not knowing it. Cabbage loopers are "inchworms." We always called them incheworms here and I kept wondering what a cabbage looper was. I decided to google that today... duh!

Anyway, they are not all that common here according to the University of Illinois extention site. Hoping that's good news for the cabbage I'm intending to plant this year. I didn't see any on the brussels last year and they apparently enjoy those too. I actually only recall seeing them a few times in my life here.

The adult form is a white butterfly . They are common here and I am not that far from you . So when you see the white butterflies around it is time to treat brassicas with BT . I quit growing brassicas because of cabbage worms .