After the vacation – did the plants survive?
Posted by Sarah O. on June 6, 2009
We just got back from a 1 1/2 week vacation to visit my parents at their new home in North Carolina.
After we left we realized that we forgot to show the pet sitter how to fill up the Aerogarden, so I was really worried about it.
When we came home it was completely out of water, but I added some more, and it seems to be doing ok.
Of course, I just realized that I didn’t really check the pump, but it’s not making funny noises or anything.
Since we were gone for so long our pet sitters decided that they should cut the grass in the front yard, and ended up cutting down all of our tulips except for one. I was so disappointed I could have cried when I found out.
Two of them were blooming when we left, and three or four more had blooms coming.
I really wanted to see what color they were!
I also know that the leaves are supposed to stay on the plants until they turn brown, so they can store energy for the bulb, so I’m really hoping that the tulips will survive after being so mistreated.
Our asparagus still isn’t up, although we have about 5 strawberry blossoms on one of our strawberry plants.
The alpine strawberry planter was a little dried out, but I’m sure the rain today took care of that.
The blueberry bush that we just planted also looked a little dry, but it is doing better than I thought it would – it looked a little dry when we planted it, and I haven’t put mulch around it yet.
I should have got some NC pine straw since I hear that pine straw helps provide the acidity the plants need.
Our Snowsweet apple, raspberries, and Carmine Jewel bush cherry are doing really well, although they don’t have blossoms.
I really want to taste a Snowsweet apple because I want another fruit tree, but I don’t want another Snowsweet one if I don’t like the taste of the fruit – I’m an apple snob, what can I say?
I want one that I can eat fresh, because while pies and cobblers are delicious, they aren’t the healthiest things in the world.
The Carmine Jewel cherry grew a lot. I’m surprised at how big the leaves are.
I’m so excited to taste them too.
They are supposed to be sour, but still sweet enough to eat off of the bush, so we’ll see.
Two of the lilacs, the Miss Canada lilac and the Yankee Doodle lilac are also blooming.
Yankee Doodle just had a tiny batch of purple flowers on the side of the bush near the fence, but the Miss Canada had enough flowers so that we could see the pink blossoms from the windows. I was surprised when we went out to look and realized that most of them weren’t all the way open yet. I can’t wait to see them when they are.
How is your garden growing?
Betty said,
It sounds like your garden is staging a recovery. Miracle Grow is a life saver in my garden.
Sarah O. said,
I hope it all recovers Betty, I just realized that my two year old foxglove plant was chopped down too
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