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I have discovered, aside from the fact that I can obviously kill any plant, that putting those that need a lot of water in the same planter as those that don't...yeah, it doesn't work out so well. The basil and mint have really struggled between being kept indoors during the worst of our wind storms (they really don't love the air conditioning and I'm not willing to compromise my comfort that much) and some seriously withering heat, even though the "heat wave" has been over for a while. I have to keep a close eye on them to make sure they're not wilting, but a little bit of wilt seems inevitable these days. And we're not even to August yet. Ugh. Most of the time the rain takes care of these two (below), I just have to make sure I don't get lazy and completely forget to water them on dry days.
I was going to yank the dead rosemary plants (there are two there in the middle) out of the planter, but then I realized there is a small problem with that...
...The mint has migrated into the space underneath both rosemary plants. Cute lil mints!
So, I simply cut the rosemary down to give the cute little mint babies room to take over. I guess that's good news mixed in with the bad. Other good news is that my thornless blackberry has recovered from the shock of being tossed about the back deck by last month's derecho. I've been going out to remove the dead parts of the plant now and again (and did more after taking these pictures) and keeping an eye on it, making sure it's well watered and not falling out of the planter (it lost a lot of dirt originally).
And now it's got a nice long green, healthy tendril. It's unlikely we'll have a single berry this summer (I'll feel lucky if the poor thing has any blooms next summer), but I'm just glad it's not dead. Unfortunately, I will need to buy a tall trellis to weave it into (complete absence of forethought here).
I have discovered, aside from the fact that I can obviously kill any plant, that putting those that need a lot of water in the same planter as those that don't...yeah, it doesn't work out so well. The basil and mint have really struggled between being kept indoors during the worst of our wind storms (they really don't love the air conditioning and I'm not willing to compromise my comfort that much) and some seriously withering heat, even though the "heat wave" has been over for a while. I have to keep a close eye on them to make sure they're not wilting, but a little bit of wilt seems inevitable these days. And we're not even to August yet. Ugh. Most of the time the rain takes care of these two (below), I just have to make sure I don't get lazy and completely forget to water them on dry days.
I was going to yank the dead rosemary plants (there are two there in the middle) out of the planter, but then I realized there is a small problem with that...
...The mint has migrated into the space underneath both rosemary plants. Cute lil mints!
So, I simply cut the rosemary down to give the cute little mint babies room to take over. I guess that's good news mixed in with the bad. Other good news is that my thornless blackberry has recovered from the shock of being tossed about the back deck by last month's derecho. I've been going out to remove the dead parts of the plant now and again (and did more after taking these pictures) and keeping an eye on it, making sure it's well watered and not falling out of the planter (it lost a lot of dirt originally).
And now it's got a nice long green, healthy tendril. It's unlikely we'll have a single berry this summer (I'll feel lucky if the poor thing has any blooms next summer), but I'm just glad it's not dead. Unfortunately, I will need to buy a tall trellis to weave it into (complete absence of forethought here).
This makes me really happy.
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