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repotting…

17 Wednesday Feb 2021

Posted by sulis303 in garden, health, life, moments, nature, Uncategorized

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avocado, big girl pants, flowers, garden, Japanese Maple, mandevilla, moments, nature, plants, repotting, transplant, widow

recently I had fun repotting a few plants…

used soil from a dead plant that was in the basement…

first up was the avocado… it has been looking a bit sad and after doing some research it seemed like time to increase the size of the container… good thing because it was root bound…

it is also getting leggy, and I am trying a technique to get it to bush out a bit more… we shall see…

next was the Japanese Maple… the kids brought it from BC when they moved to Ottawa so it has been in the same pot for eight years…

it took a lot of muscle to remove it, and for a few minutes I thought I’d have to cut it out, lol… no rocks, so I used coffee filters for the bottom…

it has many tiny roots and it took a knife to scarify it so that it will grow better in the new container…

finally, I planted a piece of the mandevilla which had accidentally been cut off and put into water to root…

it looks cute and we will see how it does;-)…

aphids…

16 Monday Nov 2020

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I brought in one of the pots with datura in it, hoping it would last through the winter… I didn’t spray it with soap like I did for the other plants I brought in…

I have now discovered that it brought aphids into the house and they were feasting on my avocado plant…

I put the avocado in the tub and soaked it with the soapy water and covered it with a bag… after leaving it for a day I removed the bag and put the plant in a room without any plants in it… there were still lots of aphids so I cut off some leaves and nearly drowned it in the soapy water…

then I cut down the datura to the base… after soaping it up I will watch to see how it does…

fingers crossed that this will get rid of them and the avocado will be happy…

avocado…

28 Saturday Mar 2020

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avocado, big girl pants, blessed, garden, hot tub, moments, outside, planting, pond, reading, Spring, sunshine, widow

had a wonderful day outside yesterday…

topped up the hot tub and added chemicals to it…

found my gardening gloves and planted an avocado…

although it is still messy on the deck, I sat in the sun and read for a while…

noticed that there is actually water in the pond;-)…

Spring is really coming, yay…

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