Pretty Plant Interlude: Lupin
Yup, they all survived. It only went down to 5C...
Tonight it's supposed to be a steamy 6 / 7C
Good diggin' weather.
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My cabbage was attacked by head rot because some of them split though most of the Mammath red rock was a-ok. Carrots have some bite marks but the beets look and taste fab. My alliums were raded by leek moth which not surprisingly nabbed all the leeks and left the perennial onions sparse. Garlic chives were more or less unaffected. This is the fourth year running that the chinese lanterns have kept the colorado potato beetle away from my solanums and I saw nary a cucumber beetle this year but then again I was away.
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3 comments:
Isn't this weather frustrating? I had some chilled annuals on the weekend--I think it was Saturday night, or maybe Sunday--mostly because it got quite low but was also windy, and I didn't move things into the greenhouse or cover them. I'm a bit hardhearted with annuals in containers in spring. If they wimp out, they get replaced by something sturdier.
What was funny here is that it was chilly on Monday--cool enough to put a fire in the woodstove--then yesterday shot up to around 80 degrees and 99 percent muggy. Today, it was very hot til the fog rolled in. As you say, cool is good digging weather....but I won't be planting beans or sunflowers for a couple of weeks yet, I guess.
Thanks for dropping by my blog. Glad to hear you survived the frost warning. Toronto pulled through just fine. Awesome Lupins. I don't have any....yet. They are real showstoppers.
Cheers.
Irena
No frost for us, but it sure did get chilly. A couple of years ago I planted yellow lupins, and still have the tag in the ground to prove it. But now they are purple!!! Yours are looking great.
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