Make sure the soil is moist. I've had Gardenias get stressed by cold weather, and giving some water usually helps them recover.This morning I noticed my new mulberry seedling is damaged from the freeze we got over Monday night - Tuesday morning. All the new leaves are wilted and look dehydrated almost. Hoping it bounces back!
Good to know! I did water it really well this morning.
In the buckets, nothing, they never try to leave. In the shallow bin, the size of a large shoebox, I do use the cover on about 80% on, just to help hold moisture for the potatoes slices as I keep that bin in the house & my house can get very dry over winter, as we have oil heat. The buckets in the pigeon loft seem to do fine without covers. The key is to check your potato slices, for the moisture they need. I slice up 1 large potato a month for them, in the house. Out in the pigeon loft about every other month over winter, they really slow down in the cold. The chicken feed pellets eventually get eaten & converted, looks like a fine dark dust (it's bug poo), so every Spring cleaning I sift & pick out the worms, pupa & beetles, dump the bug poo dust into the compost heap & set up fresh chicken feed pellets & fresh potato slices. I slice them thick, they last longer & the worms actually burrow into them. Don't put a big unsliced potato in, it would work for the worms as they'd burrow in, but then it'll get nasty & stinky, probably moldy, & you don't want that. Slices between 1 inch & 2 inches thick are best, just keep an eye on them if your place is more humid, you don't want them getting moldy. The mealworm farm should not have any odor & if it does it is too moist or a potato is stinky. The old dried out, shrunken potato slices can be discarded, but don't always toss all of them monthly, because I think the beetles lay the worm eggs on them & you want the cycle to keep going.
I tried to get a friend living in New Zealand to ship me some good, quality manuka honey. That stuff is like raw gold. So expensive....
I wish I could grow the plants here...wonder if I could try...Manuka plants are awesome.
Mulberries are weed trees here. What kind is it? Mine have come up in places I can't mow. One tree's berries are the favorite for the poultry and the raccoons. Looks exactly like another 50ft away that is the last one they eat.This morning I noticed my new mulberry seedling is damaged from the freeze we got over Monday night - Tuesday morning. All the new leaves are wilted and look dehydrated almost. Hoping it bounces back!
Of course that's what they give you after all the $$ medicine.
