Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Yardening- almost September 2015, 1 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
I worked today 8-4PM. Really killed my feet as I was running around ALl day.
NO watering--(YEAH!) because of all the rain last night.
SO--I spent my 8hrs. putting out stock. Walking non-stop--running around--
filling carts and shelves...helping customers find things--etc....
It was invigorating--but my feet hurt like H--ll.

Got home about 4:30PM--and, immediately, started an "emergency evacuation"
of all my plants outside. People were scaring me--talking about a hurricane heading
straight for the MA. So--I spent 4 hours sequestering ALL loose plants. AAGGHHH...
Took many inside the club room--Many bigger ones in my shed....a slew of smaller plants
off the shelves and into the house. etc...etc....
Piled bricks on the pots of my 2 brugs--as the wind last night blew the DR. S.over.

Since the winds were already coming from the east--I was tucking all kinds of
smaller pots on the West of things.

I am exhausted!!! The plants will all stay in the places I put them all week till this
blows over. If nothing major happens--I have to make a decision. Hmmmmmmm.....

Tomorrow is already October 1st. Most of my plants are scattered now in protected places--
none are really outside. Should I even bother putting them back outside where
they all were--on racks and tables and shelves...OR--should I start--slowly--to bring them
inside for real???? I wasn't planning on it--but with this storm coming--my hand was,
sort of, forced to start doing it anyway.

It would be nice to start to bring them all in...slowly....BUT--I have NOT yet treated any
of them with Systemic Granules which i always do 2 weeks before bringing them in.

Like...My brain is NOT yet ready to accept that it may be time to do it anyway....

NOT my CC's!!! They will stay outside until really cold weather arrives.
By then--they will all have flower buds on their stems---and it will be THE time to do it.

Not planned--but it may be a good idea to start with all this sooner than I thought.


OH!!!! PS...The whole top half of my 9' Purple Amaranth got broken off in the winds
last night. The WHOLE top part!!! That massive bloom cluster weighs at least 10Lbs.!
There must be a million seeds in them. No joke!

SO--All I can do it is put it in a paper bag and allow it to dry out--and then collect
at least 500,000 seeds. All it takes is the ONE that decides to germinate and grow
into this amazing, towering plant I had..... again.
ita