ScoopPC11's Blog

Don't always believe what the tags say. I bought two primrose plants the other day, and both died because I had them in the sun (which the tag said "sun to partial shade"). Because of the heat yesterday, they instantly wilted with no hope of recovery.

I think that's my main one today. I planted ten of the 18 cucumber plants yesterday. If those die, I'll know the frost is not over, but they seem to be handing the new location well. Some are standing up on their own without guidance, but I still tied them to craft sticks just to make sure they stayed straight.

I planted the new guinea impatiens and snowstorm flowers yesterday with the sweet pea (another lesson in not believing the tag -- it said "full to part sun", but everything I read says "full sun"), and have started taking it in at night just in case the frost is not gone yet. The snowstorm that I have right now is "pink", so I might get some "white" to play up the white and pink petals of the NGI. That container is the one I might enter in the contest (if not the contest, at least give me practice ideas).

My ageratums are starting to shoot right up in the containers in the house. Makes me wonder if I should just keep them in the house. But those are going to be pretty when they blossom. And the impatiens in the house are still alive, so it was definitely planting them too early that did them in.