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Home & Garden > Waiting for the Rains to Come!
 

Waiting for the Rains to Come!


We
had rain forecast for yesterday evening and again for this evening so I
decided, around 4 PM yesterday when I felt a few rain drops to get ALL
my potted plants out on the walkway. Hey folks I don't know how it
happened but I have 37 potted plants and it is a lot of work lifting and
carrying them out but I did it.

Pictures
numbered 1 & 3 show the east and south windows with some of the
plants- -plus there are a couple on the bathroom and kitchen sill.
Pictures 2 & 4 show the empty windows (except for a vine in picture 2
that I didn't want to undo) and now the living room feels empty to me!!
Pictures # 5 & 6 show the plants lined up on the walkway. My poor
neighbor had to pull her wagon filled with packages carefully past them.

In
any case the rains came at 6 PM and gave the plants a  good drenching.
Nobody, except me, ever said I was smart (HUSH!) but if I was I would
have brought them in after it stopped raining. I figured it was suppose
to rain tonight so I would leave them out. Needless to say we had a very
sunny day and by 3 PM all the dirt in the plants was dry!!!

Now
I sit here waiting for this evening's rain, hoping it will come soon as
I have to get the plants back in before the morning when the crew comes
into work and bangs on my door to take the plants in then--at 8 AM!!!
COME ON RAIN!

Well it did drizzle for an hour so I am going to take them in--next Sunday how the seedlings are coming along!

posted on Apr 21, 2013 6:08 PM ()

Comments:

Do we call you Farmer Martin or Donald.
comment by fredo on Apr 22, 2013 1:32 PM ()
No, just call me sill landscaper MD!
reply by greatmartin on Apr 22, 2013 3:15 PM ()
I'm waiting to get the spider plants out on the back railing. We've had plenty of rain, but not really warm enough afterwards for houseplants to be outside.
comment by jjoohhnn on Apr 22, 2013 9:28 AM ()
They better.
reply by jjoohhnn on Apr 22, 2013 1:56 PM ()
If I remember spider plants survive anything!!!
reply by greatmartin on Apr 22, 2013 1:16 PM ()
You are now officially a farmer - they watch the weather all the time, mostly hoping for rain, until they get too much rain.
comment by troutbend on Apr 21, 2013 6:43 PM ()
Not really--the weather report said rain yesterday and today and they wouldn't lie, would they????
reply by greatmartin on Apr 21, 2013 6:53 PM ()

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