Not everything has been peachy-keen in our garden this year.
There was the Alium Disaster. Remember last fall (above) when we planted dozens of alium and tulip bulbs? Yeah, well none of them sprouted. (Thank you to our neighborhood gophers who I assume are responsible.)
Then we planted hundreds of poppy seeds days before I sprained my ankle and, well, they never got properly watered and didn’t sprout.
The good news is that we have hundreds (thousands?) of poppy seeds remaining, so we may try again next year.
And now we have one more grand garden adventure that I so hope will pan out: tree collards! Given to us by a friend, these evergreen kale plants typically live ten years and grow ten-twenty feet tall, all while continually producing.
Right now it’s a tiny plant in a giant planter (sitting in a giant mound of compost). I’m excited to see how this goes!
At the moment I am not feeling overly optimistic, but perhaps I’m just trying not to get my hopes up after the previous two garden disasters.
We’ll keep you posted!
No wonder you are such a good gardener ~ you have so much patience with all the risk factors out in nature! Good luck with the poppies again next time!