Wut's Out There In The Yard? Grape hyacinths are what's out there in the (my) yard, that's wut. There's like a dozen little islands of them, all concentrated on the periphery of the...

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Wut's Out There In The Yard?

Mar 31, 2024 20:02:29 #

Cany143 Loc: SE Utah

Grape hyacinths are what's out there in the (my) yard, that's wut. There's like a dozen little islands of them, all concentrated on the periphery of the (yet to bloom, toward the end of April or more likely early in May) prickly pear cactus that line the walk to my front door. Right on cue, the first of them started blooming --as they have for decades, here at home-- on the 13th of March, rather like clockwork.

The other 'flowers' --the tiny lavender ones and the even tinier pink ones-- I've endeavored to eliminate. Those are weeds or worse. The lavender ones if left unchecked become 'Goatheads', and that is bad. The pink ones --if left unpulled or allowed to grow-- can threaten civilization itself.

Flippy screens are good for getting an ant's view of things that are small and grow just inches above the ground....

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Mar 31, 2024 20:06:04 #

dancers Loc: melbourne.victoria, australia

I cannot grow these. No idea why. tried for many years but the have the most awful tiny blooms. ugh

Mar 31, 2024 20:28:30 #

Cany143 Loc: SE Utah

dancers wrote:

I cannot grow these. No idea why. tried for many years but the have the most awful tiny blooms. ugh

Once I began to understand them, I had no problem husbanding them. Over time (in about a month and a half), each individual bloom will fade and turn to brown. Each of those browned-down 'past blooms' will have a dozen or more tiny black seeds inside, and by July (you'll have to extrapolate for the northern/southern hemisphere thing yourself) they'll further dry and 'burst', thus dropping the seeds contained therein. Catch the timing right, and you can harvest the seeds slightly before they drop and plant them (actually, no, don't 'plant' them, just toss the seeds someplace where the soil doesn't deserve to be called 'soil', and is barely even 'dirt', but is where you'd eventually like to see them, then forget about them altogether. Don't water, don't fertilize, don't do a damn thing other than wait for the next Spring. Couldn't be easier or more simple to grow you some gorgeous little mini-blooms that, once they bloom, if you crouch down low enough to smell them, will smell just like cat piss. Woo-hoo! Easy-peasy!

Mar 31, 2024 21:23:02 #