If anyone in North Raleigh heard an audible banging noise this afternoon, it was every single one of my figs ripening simultaneously. I went around the tree and I think some one the branch I started at ripened while I was picking around.

On the plus side, figs are tasty.





Also, the peaches had brown rot, so I pruned the shiz out of them and am going the fungicide route as soon as I get some.

8/11/2013 8:41:48 PM

WTF is this? Found it on my rosemary. It has a white fluffy belly. Thinking its a moth of some kind.

8/14/2013 7:37:31 PM

luna moth

8/14/2013 7:54:25 PM

More like: lunak. Amirite?

8/14/2013 9:05:59 PM

PSA:

For those of you doing/going to do soil testing, there will be a fee for peak season sample testing:

$4 fee for soil samples analyzed by the N.C. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services for the period from December through March.

Rest of the year remains free.

8/15/2013 2:00:00 PM

So I'm late to the thread, but I was wondering if there are any carnivorous plant people here. Specifically, North American pitcher plants, sundews, and venus flytraps. I got a few Sarracenia flava, S. rubra, and Drosera capillaris back in May. My interest has grown a bit, and after thinking I didn't want to wait until next year to get a few more plants started, I bought a couple of S. purpurea, a cluster of young but well-developed flytraps, and a couple of D. intermedia. The intermedia seemed a bit shocked from the transplant, so I'm working to make sure they aren't a total loss. Since the dormant season is sure to be here before we know it, I'm a little nervous. It's been a long time since I last had some pitcher plants, and I'm looking forward to flowers in the spring. Almost everything has been thriving and I've been doing a lot of reading on them this summer, but I would be interested to hear what anyone else might have to say if they've kept any of this stuff successfully before.

8/18/2013 12:32:34 AM

have you got a pic of your bog setup?

8/21/2013 10:00:42 PM

Anyone else have mature asparagus? (3+ years old?)

I'm trying something new this year that I wanted to pass along. I have an asparagus bed that's about 25' long X 3' wide. In past years, I typically only harvest through late spring/early summer then just let it grow. When the ferns turn brown in the winter, I cut them down.

Well I got a tip from the NC Cooperative Extension that I'm trying year. I went ahead and cut back half of my bed. According to what I've been told, this should provide a second harvest in that half in the fall. After the fall harvest, I will let the ferns grow until they die. I will cut the entire bed back when the ferns are dead. Then, in the spring, I will only harvest from the half that I didn't cut back this summer. Apparently this technique allows you to set up a cycle where you have 2 quality harvest seasons versus just 1. We'll see.

8/29/2013 12:53:06 PM

So I'm pretty much new to gardening... well non-grass vegetation...

I have several outdoor potted plants that I'd like to keep through the winter. I don't care/can't bring them inside, and several are really too big to move. What's the best method to have these survive the winter? Just plant them in my landscape bed for the winter and bring in what I can? Do that now/in a few weeks? Any inexpensive plants I could put in the pots over winter or will plants in the larger pots likely survive? Small ever greens I guess?

I don't remember everything I have, but a short list: gardenia, hydrangea, alocasia (? or something very similar), petunias, lantana, impatients, a few types of lily, carnations, begonia.

I could also put them in my garage (non-insulated)

[Edited on September 1, 2013 at 1:20 PM. Reason : .]

9/1/2013 1:18:50 PM

Gardenia will be fine. I had a dwarf gardenia in a pot on my deck for years before moving to a home with a yard. I would mulch it and leave it wherever it is currently.

I'm not familiar with container gardening on the rest.

9/1/2013 3:59:40 PM

plant out the hydrangea, gardenia, carnations, and lilies- wait a couple weeks until the hot weather has broken.

alocasia is a tuber and should be stored like other cold-sensitive bulbs. petunias and impatiens will be goners, just get more next year. you can try overwintering the begonia and lantana in your garage, if it has light. keep it on the dry side.

[Edited on September 1, 2013 at 4:48 PM. Reason : ^seems unlikely, but a cold winter will kill things like that in pots]

9/1/2013 4:47:52 PM

Sorry, I don't actually have an elaborate bog setup for pictures. I've basically set out a 6 inch deep plastic tray and have each rhizome planted individually (aside from the S. rubra, D. muscipula, and the few sundews I have planted among them. Once I get some divisions, I hope to experiment with a bog setup.

9/3/2013 5:54:25 PM

So I had a sweet potato and a russet that started to sprout on my countertop. I cut them in chunks and planted them in one of my earthtainers. The sweet potato and 3 chunks of the russet already have leaves. I know it's probably the wrong time of year to plant but I thought it was neat.

9/3/2013 5:59:21 PM

^^^seriously it lived in a pot for 5 years on my back deck. It snowed twice (that I remember). I'm in NC. I had no problems whatsoever.

9/3/2013 10:57:06 PM

^Well, if you're not attached to the plant that much, or remember to bring it in if it drops below 25° for more than 24 hours, it's not that risky to leave it out. The last several winters have been very mild in NC, and that's a trend everyone assumes will continue, I suppose. In the 25 years i lived in Raleigh, there were 4-5 occasions that we lost potted shrubs to cold that would have survived in the ground. Gardenias are only hardy to zone 8, and I've lost plants in containers that were hardy to zone 5 and 6 to weird cold spells. It's not the snow that kills them, but when there's an extended period of cold that freezes the roots and crown. The gardenia would also obviously get a lot bigger if it is planted in the ground.

^^i've seen a surge in interest recently in people who have indoor 'gardens' from grocery store vegetables and fruits that can re-propagated. Carrots, celery, pineapples, onions, avocados, ginger, etc. if you do it again in the spring, the sweet potatoes will definitely grow. the experiments i've made with store bought potato sprouts didn't fare so well after planting out, due to disease issues. but it was fun in the house.

^^^well, you know what they say, a picture's worth a thousand words. my tl;dr recommendation is that you move any plants you are concerned about surviving the winter to a terrarium while they're still shocked. you must have a few extra ones around, surely?

Soil condition is really the secret to growing that stuff, and from what i've seen, 6 inches just isn't deep enough for proper drainage. I feel like some of your field work should have taken you to the carolina bays and eastern savannas where these plants grow. The thing I've remarked upon (after my own struggles with potted Sarrencenias) is that the soil is much drier than I anticipated, even after fairly recent rain. when you walk on the ground, it can be rather bouncy- because there's plenty of air in there, even when it's moist. 2 feet is a good minimum depth of peat and sphagnum for a permanent bog, but the nicest, largest and most successful one i've seen must have had a good 5 or 6 feet deep. (the nc arboretum's bog sucks). Your six-inch pan isn't deep enough to create enough of a wicking effect in the sphagnum (where moisture collects at the bottom of the pan and evaporates at the surface, creating capillary effects and a zone of ideal moisture at the depth where the plants roots occur). this means that the moss stays too moist after rain, and gets dried out too quickly. larger, traditionally shaped pots (as tall or taller than they are wide) are much better at creating these drainage conditions than wide, flat pans and pots.

a lot of people keep carnivorous plants in pots and terrariums where moisture is easier to control. Flytraps are a lot more tolerant of moisture. did you have any flytraps blooming this year? they'll likely die, but plant out the seed. they do very well from seed, as do sundews. sundews, i've found are difficult to transplant, as the peat sticks to all their tiny droplets and they don't seem to produce more. Check into pinguiculas, I find them one of the most lovely carnivorous plants, and they are more tolerant to terrarium conditions. and not a carnivorous plant, but a lovely bog plant i had great success with is the orchid Spiranthes cernua v. odorata 'Chadds Ford', called scented Nodding Lady's Tresses.

[Edited on September 4, 2013 at 2:25 PM. Reason : ]

9/4/2013 2:18:57 PM

I don't know if I described the setup appropriately, but you can be the one to decide. Once again, it's not a real bog setup. Just the "tray" method. The pitchers are individually potted (more or less) with a few sundews spread throughout them. Much was obtained from a friend who had plenty growing and split me off a bit. One of the rubra had a flower that I got the impression wasn't fertilized. Repotted a couple weeks ago, buried what was left of the flower in the process, unintentionally. Noticed it and pulled it out of the moss today to realize I had a bunch of seeds germinating from the pod!

Anyway, here are shots. The sundews all look to be recovering now. Getting plenty of dew, new growth, and flowers are going. Guessing the fact that I fucked with a bit of the sundews while they were flowering might be why they were so shocked. The flytrap is still not in great shape. Too young to flower, as best as I can tell, plus I got it well after it should have set off a flower stalk. Getting new growth on pretty much all of the pitchers. One of the smaller flava got attacked by some shithead little caterpillar. The S. flava var. cuprea is my baby at the moment and the most solid of the bunch. The D. capillaris is solid, too, but I had to move it to the back yard because I think it was too dry earlier. Lots of stalks and flowers still going on it, but it just wasn't holding dew.

I've sold most of my aquariums/terrariums...at least the ones I'm not currently using. I'm gonna go ahead and leave the S. purpurea out since they're supposed to be the most cold tolerant, but might bring the rest into the garage and put them under lights.

You're correct, though, about my experience with many of these in the field, though it was primarily S. minor in SC, which I've found is protected in NC. Kinda weird to me, since they seemed to be fairly common down where I was...but that was 4 hours from Charlotte. They seemed to be in the low areas in some of the sandiest soils I've worked around. Same with the capillaris sundews, which would literally be a littering the sandy soils in the springtime (and never got to be very large at all, since it was overwhelmingly droughty while I worked down there). The other pitchers I've seen around SC are mostly varieties of yellow pitchers, which always tended to be in what I'd consider the most boggy habitats. I just experienced my first wild flytraps early this summer, and they were much higher and dryer than I anticipated (which resulted in taking me a while to actually find one).

Anyway, I'm excited about the seeds germinating unintentionally, since everyone seems to recommend the cold stratification method. I guess I still have a way to go until I see if they'll actually develop into mature plants, though.

The biggest worry right now is the flytraps. Probably not a good thing I jumped the gun on them and ended up buying a cheap one that looked 'healthy enough' at Lowe's. I think they just weren't properly acclimated.

Anyway, pictures. Didn't photograph everything thoroughly, but enough to give you the idea.

9/4/2013 5:29:25 PM

yeah, S. flava seems to out-perform the other species in the field and in naturalization. I've never had one in a pot, so I can't say for sure. I don't see one but you might try S. psittacina. they seem to do well in deeper water. some people report that they thrive even fully submerged. S. rosea and S. oreophila seem to do well in pots like you've got. the long and thin S. purpurea you have my look unhealthy due to it's strange proportions, but there's a ton of variation that species. i think your setup looks pretty good, all in all. I miss my bog garden. moved and couldn't the plants with me.

9/4/2013 9:07:37 PM

Yea, those purpurea were another impulse buy from Lowes. I'd hazard a guess that the vast majority of the carnivorous plants they bring in are lacking adequate light exposure. But the plants looked generally healthy, so I bought a couple several weeks ago. Both are young and got a bit of caterpillar damage when I put them out. They just started throwing out some new growth, so I'm eager to see how the pitchers on those turn out. As soon as they get a decent size, I'm gonna cut those funky pitchers. I did some reading on the suppliers after I bought (I know, not the way to buy) and it doesn't seem as though people like them. So even though they're labelled S. purpurea, I can't be positive at this point that they're not one of the tons of hybrids out there. There is one nicely formed pitcher on one of the plants, though, and it looks like a typical (but small) purpurea.

Probably not looking to get more plants (aside from any propagation) til maybe next year (if winter goes well enough). Slight possibility of moving back to Raleigh sometime in the near future, in which case I'm really hoping I can get a place where I can continue keeping these outdoors.

9/5/2013 12:59:22 AM

honestly, i was thinking your S. purpureas looked hybrids too. anything's possible from a commercial nursery. that's why i recommended an S. rosea, they have that really classic fat and low S. purpurea look. The other thing is that the pitchers don't grow to full-size and stay weird and stunted when they are too dry. so I wonder if they weren't struggling for a while at lowes before you picked them up.

I learned that there's a northern and a southern subspecies of purple pitcher plant, and the northern ones require a dormancy period in winter, while the southern ones can be kept indoors with lights year-round. pretty sure there's no way to tell what genes are in your commercial plants though.

[Edited on September 5, 2013 at 11:12 AM. Reason : ]

9/5/2013 11:12:14 AM

Yea, I know. All of the larger/mature plants they had for sale definitely had a standard purpurea look to them, though. I really think it's the shit conditions they're afforded while on the shelves, which lead to some screwed up pitchers being set out. Both of those just started putting out new growth in the past week or so, so I'm waiting to see how those pitchers develop. Had a tiny bit of growth a little older than that, but a damn caterpillar got a hold of it.

9/5/2013 1:39:42 PM

well, that sounds promising. I thought I could be looking at some stunted pitchers or first year growth. I wouldn't expect too much more growth, honestly. It's almost time for them to just start hunkering down for the winter. your smaller plants will benefit from light fertilizing next spring. not recommended for the ones that are already making adult pitchers. for them, some very dilute fertilizer in the pitchers is the recommendation. I know the people behind carniverousplants.org have experimented with osmocote pellets and normal fertilizer at various rates.

9/5/2013 2:21:34 PM

Yea, I was experimenting with the water level somewhat recently, trying for something a little more dry than what I've been doing, and I almost immediately got phyllodes forming. That was in August, which was still a bit early for dormancy growth. Once I restored higher water levels in the tray, the plants began developing normal pitchers again. Probably a little more experimentation than I should be doing in my first few months, but glad I haven't killed any of my plants (yet).

I've been looking into the online carnivorous plant communities lately, and there's almost too much info there. Lots to sort through. The general consensus seems to be that fertilizing is generally not recommended, especially for the beginners. There hasn't been any shortage of insects trapped by the plants, so I'm going to take that as no need for fertilizer for now. The peat/sand mixes in most of my pots are nearly identical, and it's really only one or two flava that seem to be struggling a bit, whereas others are solid.

Anyway, I was looking over the plants earlier and noticed one of the stalks on one of my relatively shaded D. intermedia had actually sprouted. I don't know for sure, but I'm guessing it got dunked during the rain over the weekend, which caused some seeds to sprout. I clipped it, buried it in one of my sphagnum pots, and I'm gonna hope for the best for now. Lots of flowers on my D. capillaris, as well as a decent number remaining on some of my D. intermedia. I don't know how long they'll continue flowering, but I think I'll clip them and once I get something that works indoors, I'll set them in some moss and cross my fingers.

I'd imagine this is still the most relevant thread, but is anyone here into orchids and/or bromeliads? I've been working with a couple of small bromeliads I purchased long ago that started throwing out pups. Removed the pups, which have been doing well in the back yard. At least one of the 'mothers' has started growing another pup since then, which I'll probably split off in the next month or so. I find it a crazy bargain when I go to Lowes and see $2 bromeliads all because the flowers have started dying. They often have 2 or 3 pups ready to split by that time. Trying my best not to buy more. They make nice plants for some of the gecko tanks. I've been interested in trying orchids, since you can get good deals on those right now. Same deal - flowers dying off and they go on the clearance rack.

[Edited on September 5, 2013 at 4:45 PM. Reason : brom]

9/5/2013 4:38:34 PM

wait time can be long on those clearance orchids- i usually find that their roots have begun to decay or dry by the time they get to that stage in the grocery store. Ones that only have one or two flowers left are more promising- you can clip the flowering stem just above the last flower and the plant will frequently make a new branch. you might be interested going to orchid society sales and buying immature plants. you'll get more interesting plants, with likely similar wait times to those really dried up neglected ones. it's much easier to buy a healthy plant and keep it going. I've had excellent success with phalenopsis orchids, but they really like canada's cooler climate. they really like indirect light, which can be kind of challenging. north facing exposures in the summer, and somewhat below a south facing window in winter. in raleigh i also had luck with oncidiums and dendrobiums.


I used to really enjoy bromeliads and had my interest piqued again by going to a lovely greenhouse with incredible false trees covered in diverse types of bromeliads. I just got my first one since my move- a little pink quill. i don't know what color the flowers are. I'm hoping for the bright dark blue. I picked my plant because it had an almost full-sized pup on it. I'd like to get another Aechmea, they're tough and can take some drying out. Neoregelias are nice too.


I also got a bunch of Peperomias that were on sale for $2 each. I know about getting sucked in by the cheap plants, haha.

Earlier this summer I bought a bunch of cheap $10 and $15 tropicals (red banana, white bird of paradise, magesty palms, dracena marginata) and a bunch of really cheap little dracenas and put them into these "self watering" containers. but we had crazy rain and the damn things flooded and I didn't notice for a while. I lifted out the plants and the soil stinks like sulphur, but there's no paradoxical wilting yet, at least. I'm trying to decide if I should suck it up and add some drainage holes to the bottoms of the containers, or put plastic around the bases of the plants to shed rain and try to keep the bottoms of the pots intact. It would be a lot simpler to keep these large plants indoors if there was no risk of overflow and drainage, but I guess it would really suck if I overwatered in winter and had to go through this again. I guess I have a couple days to make my decision while the roots air out.

[Edited on September 5, 2013 at 10:30 PM. Reason : ]

9/5/2013 10:08:43 PM

Something ate my D. capillaris last night.

9/8/2013 8:27:41 PM

earwigs


operation repot is getting urgent 'round here. it dropped to 37 for a few hours last night. it's supposed to be warm again for the rest of the week. I brought the bareroot plants in, but bunked the rest against the house and covered them with a tarp. hope i didn't kill anything

[Edited on September 9, 2013 at 8:48 AM. Reason : ]

9/9/2013 8:39:51 AM

Harvest from yesterday. Everything is pretty much done except for peppers and okra. Speaking of okra, I'm getting TONS. Anyone have any good okra recipes besides frying them? Is pickled okra any good? Notice the 2 red peppers toward the top of the pic. 1 is a jalapeno and one is a banana pepper. Will they both be hotter since they were on the plant so long that they turned red?

9/9/2013 10:35:56 AM

pickled okra is the tits...I almost prefer it to pan fried.

9/9/2013 10:52:25 AM

I got tons of okra coming in too. Yeah, pickled okra is good (especially in bloody marries). I think I've had a pickled cajun okri before. This year I've been doing more pan-sauteing than breading/frying. And I even just boiled them and steamed them several times and thought that was pretty good.

and it's been my experience that if you leave the jalapenos on the plant long enough to turn red, they're sweeter and milder. I've pickled a lot of jalapenos this year too.

[Edited on September 9, 2013 at 11:17 AM. Reason : ]

9/9/2013 11:11:15 AM

there's not much to do with those oversized ones, other than cutting out the woody ribs and stuffing them indian style. there's versions with meat, cheese, and vegetable fillings, so i recommend you search 'stuffed okra' to find a recipe that appeals to you.

another indian okra dish i really love is bhindi masala. here's a nice step-by-step recipe for that, though i always add green and red pepper. http://www.vegrecipesofindia.com/bhindi-masala/

you can also chop all the ingredients (onions, peppers, etc) in big coarse squares and halve the okra, mix it in a bowl with all the spices and some oil, and roast in the oven at 425 for 30-45 mins. I call that lazy masala.

gumbo would be the classic thing to make with an abundance of okra. http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/recipe/chicken-gumbo-fresh-okra
http://blog.al.com/table-for-two/2012/05/gumbo_is_better_with_fresh_okr.html

but my grandma's favorite was succotash with okra, tomato, corn and lima beans (or whatever kind of fresh shelled bean or pea you can find). she would make a huge amount and freeze it, like creamed corn and other things she put up. this recipe looks good. http://southernfood.about.com/od/okra/r/bl10814b.htm

some people claim it's better to make it with frozen stuff though. http://www.food.com/recipe/super-easy-southern-okra-succotash-115185

okra can be dried as well, though i don't have any experience with that. but the fried 'dried' kind are quite tasty.




I've got shit-tons of cayennes. time to make hot sauce. I've already made some chili vinegar and oil.

[Edited on September 9, 2013 at 11:30 AM. Reason : ]

9/9/2013 11:25:38 AM

Quote :

"there's not much to do with those oversized ones"

Yeah, I feed the big ones to the goats. There were some even way bigger than the ones in the pic, but I just threw those in the woods. That's the thing about okra, once it takes off you gotta check it every day.

9/9/2013 11:59:54 AM

Most of my garden is dead except for peppers and some impossible to kill husky cherry red tomatoes (the whole plant died... then new growth appeared five feet up and it's ridiculous).

My two poblano plants have still not fruited, and are just growing taller and taller. It looks like the flowers die before they get pollinated, sadly. Ugh bees why don't you love me.

9/9/2013 3:29:06 PM

I doubt bees would fuck with flowers from pepper plants

9/9/2013 5:19:58 PM

maybe that plant is sterile for some reason. if the tomatoes were getting pollinated, bees probably weren't the problem. you can always try hand-pollination.

9/11/2013 11:11:22 AM

Anyone know what these guys are? An army of them have showed up on my tomato plants, particularly my Romas. What's the best way to get rid of them?

[Edited on September 11, 2013 at 7:56 PM. Reason : asdf]

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9/11/2013 7:56:08 PM

that's a nymph of the large milkweed bug, Oncopeltus fasciatus,

9/12/2013 10:05:42 PM

Finally had a day off yesterday so I pulled up all of my summer veggies (except a row of peppers that are still doing really well). I tilled, fertilized, and planted 3 rows of winter veggies. I'm starting everything from seed, so fingers crossed. I planted Romaine Lettuce, Spinach, Broccoli, Carrots, and Arugula. I've never done winter veggies before, because I am usually over the garden by this point. But I had the seeds, so I figured what the hell. I guess we'll see in about a week what actually comes up.

9/18/2013 9:03:31 AM

I need to do that soon. I've done winter veggies the last couple years, and they seem to be easier than summer: less bugs and disease. I really like having constant access to collards and lettuce. Last year my collards and kale lasted through the entire winter and into late spring.

9/18/2013 9:47:33 AM

I had to use a hand saw to cut down my okra. I could barely get my hands around the trunks, both plants were like small trees. They were still producing like crazy, but we were pretty much over okra.

9/18/2013 10:00:36 AM

Yeah, my okra is producing now more than ever. The stalks are probably around 3 inches in diameter, maybe more.

9/18/2013 10:13:41 AM

Broccoli, Arugula, Lettuce and Spinach have emerged! Thank you rain on Saturday!

9/23/2013 9:13:22 AM

My garden was pretty much an entire bust this season. Oh well. I planted some buckwheat as a cover crop and will till it over in the spring. Better luck next year I hope

9/25/2013 9:24:13 AM

i'm still getting jalapenos, okra, eggplants, and a few cherry tomatoes here and there.

i've got lettuce, collards and broccoli seedlings in pots, ready to go in the ground. i'll also be planting some beats and spinach by seed, maybe this weekend if i get the time.

9/25/2013 9:35:23 AM

My front yard right now. This is why I can't have flowers in that natural area.

9/30/2013 9:26:20 AM

I got tons of cayennes drying on the plants. I already made a couple bottles of chili vinegar. I've kinda lost my taste for spicy due to accommodating someone's extreme aversion for so many years, and I'm not exactly sure what to do with them all now.


finally got my last flush of cherry hots, a couple bell peppers and some little eggplants. I forgot about the eggplants and let a bunch grow way too big and split on the plants, boo. one last bunch of romas and a couple of beefsteaks are ripening. however, I briefly saw some amazing veggies at an international competition at the botanical garden here. I'm planning to go back and check that out very soon to get some ideas for next year.

9/30/2013 4:55:21 PM

green peppers have started doing better than they've done all summer.

10/2/2013 12:47:32 PM

^^^ Cool

10/2/2013 1:20:08 PM

Got my first lemons from my lemon tree. Can't really do much with so little...just hope I can keep this baby alive until it gets nice and big and is giving me tons of lemons. Probably not the most useful tree, but I it looks great in the yard and has beautiful and nice smelling flowers. Will probably do limoncello in the future.

10/2/2013 2:34:05 PM

Got a couple of new pitchers at the UNCC plant sale. A little bummed that I didn't get to it yesterday, as I would have liked to see what was put out for sale at the beginning. I wasn't expecting it to be so skewed toward the hybrids, though. Got a S. leucophylla in decent shape that looks like it might already be ready to split. Also pulled the trigger on a 'Boob tube', though I was going to swap it out for a different hybrid...only to come back and find some guy buying almost every carnivorous plant they had left. The lady selling everything said that it was unfortunate that they didn't have any sundews for sale, but when I looked close at each plant, almost every single one had a few seedlings. I can only assume it's D. intermedia, which isn't as exciting because mine have started balling out of control.

I'm not gonna complain, though. S. leucophylla is what I hoped to get and S. leucophylla is what I got. If I'm still around in the spring, I'm gonna make it a point to get there early and cherry pick.

Aaaaand when I went to pick up some peat moss, found some flytraps on the discount rack for $1/ea. So we'll see if I can salvage them. I think they just needed some water.

10/19/2013 10:23:47 PM

sounds like a nice event. I've been wanting to go to some sales around here but they're always inconvenient. I spent like $600 on plants this year though, so my budget is busted til next year (and i have nowhere to keep anymore alive through winter!).


i think the best you can expect from your new flytraps is for them to poke along and be semi-dormant this winter. if they bloomed this year, they may quite likely die. look for seeds!


sundews are supposed to be really easy to grow from seed. I have no experience with this site, but i noticed they sell 38 types of Drosera. http://www.rarexoticseeds.com/en/drosera-seeds.

10/21/2013 2:11:51 PM

i'm still getting tomatos, and recently my green peppers started coming in better than they have all summer. same with banana peppers. okra is finally starting to die.

10/21/2013 2:13:12 PM