Chili on the agenda ...and oatmeal cookies

Overcast here right now...I should really step up bringing in plant indoors, but forecast says this is a warm rain system, if it does make it here. Hmmm..warm is good, plants will like it. Maybe I have one more week! I just hate to bring in my Oncidium orchids, three have good flower spikes, don't want them to blast.

Ah finally we got a good drizzle at dawn, free water for the plants! Just slightly cool and breezy at 59F right now. I have been delaying bringing in my plants.

I am having 2nd thoughts about bringing in my pineapple, it is so big and long already, too poky sharp. Will watch and see how long it will last outdoors this coming winter season.

Could it go in your grow camp, T? I don't think it would make it outside all winter.

Karen, I was also thinking about that, putting it inside the growcamp, but I have to put in there my epiphyllums and hoya, and some other succulents that can stand the cold as long as kept dry. Full house already. Will it be bad to trim the pineapple leaves down? I have never tried trimming the leaves, hmm..then maybe I can fit in there. Just to keep it dry when it gets way too cold overnight during winter, maybe I can experiment this time!

I've had pineapples that got leaves damaged, so I cut them mostly off. It didn't seem to cause any problems, other than how it looked.

Oh okay, that is good to know...going to do some snip, snip, snip!

Good, make it fit the growcamp! Then it can come out to play next spring.

Very happy with my two Maples..the Vine maple especially since they are susceptible to verticillium Wilt and that corner has it pretty badly...and yet there he is, doing okay so far after a rocky start....









And my Paperbark Maple in the back.....they're young, but will be so handsome when grown...the colors !








Love all the verbascums....

There is a 20% chance of a trace of rain and there is a flash flood watch. Sorry, but I have to scoff at that. A 20% chance might as well be a 0% chance. We haven't had a heavy rain in years. Last year's super El Nino was so bogus.

Happy Thursday! Rain clouds coming here, and expecting rains as well starting tonight to weekend. I have finally brought in some of my plants yesterday, still some more to bring in, but got to get over the delay, got to move them in!

Oh, our drizzle has started, and quite overcast right now. Free water for the plants!

Oops, not a drizzle, pouring hard now.

I'm glad your plants are getting a good watering, T. I wish we'd have rain, but it's not in our forecasts. It's really dry here.

Ah the quirks of weather eh...I think you got summer rain before, and we got absolutely nothing, now in Fall, we get some, and it is dry on your side.

But this rain is fleeting..I'll take all my garden can enjoy..my carnivores will be so happy! Glad I have started hiding some of the succulents yesterday

We did have some good summer rains that saved us from the wildfires. I'm hiding plants inside now too. Some go to the greenhouse, and others are moving indoors for the winter.

Still raining here, I hope I don't end up saying that every day through the Winter....but...take it when you get it....

LOL! Sherry, you better stock up on groceries, in case all your roads wash out!

Raining lightly, not such a constant now...though I should pull out the big leftover Y2K water barrel and fill it...comes in awfully handy when the power goes out and your well can't pump...

You should! With the half " of rain we've had in the past week, I've filled 3 35gal trash cans from a 12 X25 section of roof. It isn't clean because I hadn't hosed off the roof and gutters, but it will settle and be good enough to water my orchids for quite awhile.
With the rain you get, you wouldn't need the roof.

No, but we should save Winter rain also for our dry summers...I would need a cistern or wooden barrels...don't really have the room to bury a cistern anyway...but here it does make sense to save the Winter rains for Summer...no room for a pond...sigh...