Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Indoor gardening, Mid atlantic, 2015, 4 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
Almost missed this Thread...again...

I p/u a boxed Amaryllis at Safeway on the 50% off rack.
They only had white and red ones--mostly white. $2,50.
The bulbs are just in the emerging state. So--it ,ay bloom in a week or two?
I took it downstairs in the cool shop to slow it down a bit.

Might go back there and get another one....pretty box it comes in too.

Re Oxalis-----
I have several, different sized pots of it. They spend the time on the tiny
window ledge in my laundry room, along with the 2 pots of Pregnant Onion.
It is the only natural light I have there. This 28"x18" window.
The "onions" there are going to town--They always grow all these 3' leaves over winter.

The Oxalis is not really growing a lot either. If i water it--it sends our a few leaves.
I agree with Ric--I think they need a winter's snooze.

Then--you can put them outside, come early summer, in filtered light, and they
will pop open. Nice color to add to planters...
They grow especially well if I pot them in with a mixed container or WB.
Then they make those big, translucent water-bulbs there in the soil.
Some as big as big around as a carrot--just much shorter.
I find this pretty bizarre--and interesting....

Pics. 1-2 and 3 are from 2011.

1--Planted a couple Oxalis in my heavy clay W-Boxes on the side porch--just for color...
It, pretty much, took over everything else in the boxes.

2--Digging thes oxalis out was a big chore. The roots went so deep and strong.
When i DID get them out--this is what I found. Fat, water bulbs attached to the little
brown roots we all know. Perhaps--the Oxalis was trying to conserve water???

3--This is what the whole root clump looked like. Crazy!

4--Oxalis today on my laundry room window ledge. Sparse--but alice.

5--Just for YOU, Sally---My Cobra Calathea in my BR. I fed it a bit--hoping it will
fill out a bit more near the bottom, which now is a lot od skinny, upright stems.