Weather forecast today (Melbourne CBD, 3000): min - 18°C, max - 26°C. 25% chance of at least 4mm

(Daily thread title changed by order of CEOofmyhouse56 - alternate title suggestions warmly welcomed!)

  • melbaboutown
    3·
    16 days ago

    Trying to decide whether to uber to a nursery for seedlings or order more seeds to mine and hopefully they get to me.

    I’m not feeling great and Melbcat has been kind of off since her shot.

    Edit: Yeah there is still no pollen being made. Maybe due to the hotter weather? If they want to be a total dick about it I could possibly use pumpkin flowers to get the job done.

    Either my own if I ever get them off the ground.

    Or there is a garden on my block that has squash and zucchini, and (from a garbled child-written note) seems to be selling the veg? Possibly on an honesty system? I can’t reach the zuke flowers easily and am a little worried about the risk of toxic bitterness in the fruit from hybridisation with the squash. And it feels a bit wrong. I can’t be 100% sure that the note is agreeing for people to take them.

    But if I get really desperate I could possibly leave a $5 note to cover the lost vegetable and nab the closest male flower with minimal damage. Maybe.

    Ps. A snail ate half the biggest female blossom. Rude. He was well fed for his trip over the fence

    • imoldgreeeg
      5·
      16 days ago

      If it won’t be too much of a money hit I would uber to a nursery. We are getting close to Christmas so shipping is a gamble and also a nice slow wander through plants always makes me feel better. And the seedlings can live in their seedling pots for a few days until you have the energy to pop them in a bigger pot.

      • melbaboutown
        3·
        16 days ago

        I managed to get some seedlings - marigolds and cherry tomatoes. There weren’t any smaller variety pumpkin plants so I got golden nugget seeds.

        The pumpkins will be larger than the jack be littles and the cost of stockings to support them is steep but I’ll sort it out

        • imoldgreeeg
          3·
          16 days ago

          Marigolds and cherry tomatoes 👌🏻 In my pumpkin experience they are pretty hardy even if left to sprawl. But I am no expert. All my pumpkin growing was by accident because they self seeded from the compost. I always had a pretty live and let life approach to gardening

          • melbaboutown
            3·
            16 days ago

            I would let them sprawl but there’s some serious barriers to using the patches of soil I have access to, and I haven’t got the soil samples tested yet.

            I’d love to be able to do inground