Flowering Brugmansia! (almost...)

 The angel trumpet (Brugmansia) has finally put out little flower buds! I'm so excited about it and can't wait till they bloom. Theres a bunch of little droopy pods.

catface, he's got a big catface.
He's got the body of a cat
and the face of a cat
and he flies thru the air
cuz he's got a catface....catface

The Sweet 100's are finally showing color. It seems like it took forever. I was afraid with the cold weather coming they wouldn't show any color at all>

< The roma tomatos are still getting hit by something. I'm still not sure if its catfacing (which the bottom shows signs of) or an elusive worm... sigh.

The first of the sprouts has um, sprouted. It's one of the marigold seeds.

This morning was full of pleasantries.

Speaking of, happy giving of the thanks. I said Gobble son!

Rose problems and Misc.

fo I keep having this reoccurring problems with my roses. They keep getting this deep green color on the veins of the leaves. When i looked it up in my garden encyclopedia it looks like a textbook example of magnesium deficiency (literally, they have a picture there!). So i used epsom salts to the soil, like it calls for, at least 3 times and it's still happening. I haven't tried a foliar feeding but i guess thats next. It happens to the rose i propagated thats still in a pot as well as the ones in the ground. I'm at a loss of what to do about it at this point... they are really not doing well.

But on a positive note, the Verbascum is doing very well. I almost killed them about a month ago. I put them in their little SIP containers and that was all well and great but my mistake was that i put them in direct sun. When i went to check the water in the bottom reservoir i finally figured out that the water was very hot, like sticking them in a hot-tub!

So i moved the planters in the shade and what once were crispy, pink and yellow leaves has turned to happy green and healthy again. lesson learned.

The Datura pods are HUGE now. I'm not sure when to pull them off, but hopefully they will start to dry out and crack or show me some signs that the seeds are ready to go. If i try to extract the seeds too early they won't be viable and i surely don't want that. I probably have 6 to 8 pods on there and i won't know what to do with them. seems like a waste to just toss them out...

Tomato Munchers

A few days ago I went out and noticed that there was a perfectly bored hole right in the side of my Roma tomato. It was so perfect Da Vinci couldn't have done it as well. Anyway, so today i go out and to my devistation it had 3 holes in it now in addition to its neighbors being munched on. Irritating. 

I split them open looking for a worm but nothing. I'm thinking some other animal wouldn't have done such a perfect, clean job of punching thru it. I just want to figure out what it is so i can get it under control before it gets out of hand...

Note: after looking on a forum, it might be something called catfacing. I looked it up, but i'm not entirely convinced about it yet. I saw no deformities on the fruit, which seems to accompany the problem from all the pictures i saw online. I'll keep looking for signs of it though. But hopefully it won't spread any further and i wont have to.

Lycoris and Crocus Bulbs

So around October I noticed some pretty wispy flowers that came out of nowhere growing on the side of my house. I looked them up and found out they're actually lycoris. I'm thinking that the last freeze we had killed much of the ferns and other plants that were growing there, so i was finally able to see what was there the whole time.

Lycoris Bulbs I pulled up

No telling how long they were growing there on their own, so i went yesterday to investigate and found that there were a ton of bulbs over there! I dug out less than a foot square and pulled up over 30 of them. I left a large clustered clump of bulbs where they were already established just in case the transplant went bad. 

I also planted 18 bulbs of crocus around the tulip tree nestled in along with the ranunculus. Oh and the ranunculus are already starting to put up little leaves again! Only about 4 of the 10 or so i planted last year have started to peak out so far.

More fall tomatoes!!

Now both the Roma and the Better Boy have started putting on fruit as well, and I'm pretty happy about it. The Sweet 100's have been green for a long time and have yet to show any color. I'm not sure if this is normal or what... I'm also not sure if any of the tomatoes will be big enough to actually be able to do something with. Cold weather is approaching and we'll see how it goes. The Beefmaster tomatoes are just now starting to put on flowers so I don't have too much hope on them producing anything.

Roma

Sweet 100

Better Boy

In addition, the snow pea seeds that i gathered from last seasons crop are going strong. I need to put up some sort of support pronto. I didn't have any soil around that was ready so i took some of the composting stuff from the neighboring bed and set them in it with their peat pods they germinated in. I have no idea how thats gonna go. But i have plenty of leftover seeds so its no biggy if they hate it in there. Theres only 6 vines as of now. As soon as my dad saw them he goes "that's not gonna be enough". the man loves snow peas, what can i say.

Nothing yet from the lettuce or the 4 o'clocks. I would have figured the lettuce would have done something by now, it sprouted so quickly last season. maybe it's not cold enough yet...

Datura blooms

I took pictures every day or two so i could see the double datura metel as it opened. I think of it as a super crappy time lapse camera : ) They're not as stunning as i imagined, but they're still pretty. They just have the appearance of being super poisonous dont they?

Oh, and they're already have little pods going that look equally non-edible. All of this out of that little 3L SIP planter. I probably need to transfer it into something bigger now though... not sure what to use next.