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My interest? Anything to take my mind off the reality of the state of US and the pandemic at the moment. I'm having a really hard time absorbing all the devastating news lately.
I vowed at the end of last summer to not repeat the extent of gardening I did last year, now of course, I'm anxious to get my hands back in the dirt. My double garage is presently 1/2 greenhouse. I bought 3 huge ferns around end of August that I found at Lowes for only $5 each and they are probably 4 foot tall! They take up the entire 6' utility table. I have another 2 hanging fern baskets. I have vines, geraniums, beautiful impatient dish, coleus, more vines, trailing geraniums all in garage. A couple herb planters barely hanging on.
I have several sweet potato vines rooting on my kitchen window sill.
Still at least 3, maybe 4 months away from being able to get all these outdoors. A few may actually survive the winter, alot probably won't.
I may start some lettuce inside, I miss being able to just walk out onto my back porch and snipping handfuls fresh for a salad.
I just know last year, getting my hands in dirt was a tremendous stress reliever and feel I need that now again.
I'll take inventory of my seeds this weekend and plan, probably do some ordering.
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I have one of those ferns in a bathroom.... it shrinks down in the winter and grows out more in the spring. my potted roses are inside, in the way because where they would usually be, there are boxes of supplies. my succulents- well, some of them look sick. There is not enough light and heat for them. sometimes they come right back once the days get longer. you might want to invest in a growlux light- my father had a window box; I now realize to cheer himself up in the winter. depends on how much $ you want to spend to have a lamp on a lot of time.