We’re halfway through potting up all the plants we’ve overwintered, but are looking at temps below freezing for the next two nights. Today will be about getting covers ready for everything and setting up ambient warmth for several of our plants that are currently flowering. On my way home from a doctor’s appointment, I stopped to pick up a cutting of a curly willow (Salix matsudana) from a woman in town whose tree was damaged in a recent snow storm.
This one cutting was turned into a dozen after I got home. I’ve planted out three or four and the remaining sections were loosely bundled and placed into our five gallon bucket with several other varieties of willow we’re rooting in water.
What’s growing on with you all?
I’ve got a normal compost bin going as well, but I’m trying the anaerobic method for the first time on this bucket. Just filled it up with invasive plants and water, added some leaf mold, put the top on and stuck it in a sunny spot. We’ll see what happens!
Very cool. We have a few turned piles ourselves, but I’m a big fan of the anaerobic method as well. There was a talk by John Kempf about facultative soil microbiology and the benefits of having aerobic and anaerobic organisms present for soil health which you might find interesting
