This is where we are still. I live in the dark red bit.
So it's about amusement indoors after a trip out to water the flowers. There was a lovely rain during the night, so the flowers were watered.
Yesterday I thought I might try growing a houseplant, it won't be a tree, from angelcot pits.
So I cracked a couple and they soaked overnight, for planting today. I'm hoping for germination.
Years ago I read a book called something like The After Dinner Gardener, all about growing from various pits and vegetable bases like celery crowns and scallions. I think I'm reliving it.
Outside, finally, a bud
on the cosmos. Plenty of foliage everywhere but no buds. Yet.
The current freecycling is looking for takers
The angelcots go fine, sliced with yogurt. I didn't make the apricot sauce I'd thought about. Instead I made a sauce with the last of the strawberries, to accompany the last of the pancake batter. All good.
Then I found an astrological way to establish your favorite candy
This didn't work so well for me, not a fan of hard candy, even if it's jolly. No Heath (health) bars to be found. Sad, really. But the astro findings are always wildly flattering, so there's that.
Happy Sunday, unless it's Monday where you are
I love your drawings. Don't envy you the weather though. That said, just a small rise in temperature here would be nice.
ReplyDeleteIt sounds like a typical Yorkshire July day all over the UK!
DeleteGood luck with the angelcot pits!
ReplyDeleteYou'll definitely get updates if anything happens.
DeleteI'm a great fan of attempting to grow things from fruit stones. Avocados and citrus fruits are successful, usually.
ReplyDeleteAvocado is the one I have never succeeded with. Even when a friend gave me a mature plant she'd propagated, it died in literally 24 hours. I had no time to do anything wrong, even. We concluded it was body chemistry. She could succeed with nothing other than avocados.
DeleteI have never seen angelcots here. I would try them for sure!
ReplyDeleteGood luck with the pits - it will be fun to see if they germinate. If anybody can get them to grow, it's you.
ReplyDeleteInteresting to read the zodiac candy bit and I have to say that, from what I know about you, it's pretty spot on in the description. The candy? Perhaps not so much.
Let's see how the pit grows. I read other signs to see if I wanted to swap birthdays to get their candy, but I must be too picky! The astro description sounds a bit exhausting.
DeleteYou know me- I love to start plants from pits and bits of things. Which reminds me that I need to water some of my outdoor potted plants today. The heat is with us too, although I don't think as high as yours. Stay in, dear lady!
ReplyDeleteWe're hotter than Florida? Say it ain't so. And all our surrounding blacktop doesn't help.
DeleteI am so lucky to be mostly surrounded by trees and plants and dirt, but working or even just being outside in the sun now is hardly tolerable.
DeleteLOVE the drawings in boxes!
ReplyDeleteLooks like practice for hell over yonder at your place! WOW too hot. It will get up to 80 degrees here today. We are in lush green so it is not terrible. Breeze off of the bay is nice as well.
Jolly Rancher marketing may be successful- appeals to Sagittarius anyway!
I think if we dropped to the seventies I'd need a coat! Especially with breeze off the bay.
DeleteMark is a Sagittarius and that is not him at all! You've had really hot weather. We've had wet and humid weather. Good luck with the angelcot pit.
ReplyDeleteWhat's his date of b? Interesting that I often find this desc does pretty well fit the sags I know. Except that sags don't believe in astrology. We've had dewpoints in the 70s. Great for my dry skin and hair.
DeleteI love to start plants from pits and seeds. I’ve been tempted lately to start a fruit tree line-up on the terrace The colors on the heat maps are frightening. Well, not the colors, but the heat!
ReplyDeleteIt's a bit early for heat waves, though we don't get them. I'll let you know how the pits go on.
DeleteI wrote we do, bully text changed it to we don't! What do they know?
Deletemy sister loved to try to grow things from seeds collected, given, or left over from fruit being eaten. she was nearly always successful. not that she necessarily wanted the plant, it was the challenge.
ReplyDeleteYes, it's the challenge of trying. I propagate plants and give them away. My nearest sister had all kinds of plants from seeds, including a big lemon tree! You don't get fruit from seeds usually, but you can get great plants.
DeleteMy uncle could never throw away a seed. He always planted them in soil. I’m kinda like him lol
ReplyDeleteDefinitely a stay inside and well hydrated day at your place.
I think I understand him! It seemed so wasteful not to plant everything.
DeleteSympathies on the heat. We're heading for 109F by Tuesday, and despite "dry heat", it's killer heat ('normal' for this time of year is 95F-ish, which is bad enough). Makes me cranky. We tend the outdoor stuff before 9 am, and again after 9 pm, and otherwise indoors. Grumble grumble grumble.
ReplyDeleteThat being said - good luck with the angelcots!
Chris from Boise
I always forget how dull the summer is when it's too hot to get out for more than a brief early morning period. Grumble grumble here, too.
DeleteAngelcots are new to me but I would certainly try it. It’s fruit after all.
ReplyDeleteDefinitely worth a try.
DeleteNights are not bad here. It's 66 this morning but will go up to 85 this afternoon.
ReplyDeleteI long for days in the 80s. Prime walking weather! Even nights below high 70s would be good.
DeleteI did avocado pits once and it was fine for awhile. Your pits would be wonderful if they could yield that great fruit. Since I kill things like that (through no intent!) I'll watch eagerly!
ReplyDeleteYou can't get fruit from pits, just foliage. You need root stock for fruiting. Also pollinators.
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