u/OldLadyGardener

One of my fig trees dropped all of its leaves because I forgot to water it for a few days, but with all this rain, it's coming back out. It's going to be a very confused tree.

I'm totally out of space to put more plants because of all the cuttings, so my potting table has barely any room to actually pot things.

Still not a lot of blooms, but he coleus are still gorgeous.

My new Everglades seedlings are doing well, although I had to bring them inside out of the rain so they wouldn't drown. Some of the broken colored four-o'clock seeds sprouted. I thought they had probably drowned or not been viable.

I got some Egyptian Walking Onion bulblets today. They're pretty small, but I'll plant them and see what they do.

I had taken two cuttings from my Gardener's Delight tomatoes before they died from the heat, and they are just starting to grow again. I need to put them into 5 -gallon buckets. I got some Cherokee Purple seeds from eBay, and I'm going to try to plant some of those too. I'm always late planting, but I figure if I can even get my tomatoes big enough to get a few suckers off of, I can overwinter them and start them again in the spring.

What's going on in your garden?

From what I can see, I think we're all safe from the worst of this storm, but it's pretty big, so we're going to get some wind and possibly rain from the outer bands.

Low lying areas in GNV and western Alachua County are under flood warnings so anyone west of us, look out for that.

Make sure you pick up everything that can fly in your yard, and take down your hanging plants.

Batten the hatches and be safe, everyone!

There are usually so many plants around it, I can't see the bottom of the trunk, but I saw something white this morning, and the entire bottom of the trunk is covered in tiny white mushrooms. That usually means it's already dead inside. I noticed a lot of dead limbs this year, and it didn't fill out or bear like it usually does. I'm so sad. I grew it from a cutting a long time ago.

There are a lot of root shoots coming up, so I could try to root one of those, but I can't plant anything there now because it will just get the fungus too. My staghorn fern hangs from that tree, and it is the only place it is really happy, so I don't know what to do about that. I need the shade, but I can't really put anything else in that spot, because the fungus will just kill it too.

This is entirely my fault. I piled too many plants up around it and its roots just couldn't breathe. I should have known better, but when you have a lot of plants needing shade, and not enough shade for all of them, you tend to do what you must.

Oh well. It made it 11 years from a cutting, so I shouldn't complain. It will still take it another year or two to die completely, but I won't leave it that long. I don't want it to come down in a storm, or spread the rot to other plants.

If it was hot and rainy, I'd love it, but I've already lost one bell pepper plant to root rot, so to me, the rain is a curse and a blessing

This is the time of year I lose a lot of my plants to root rot, especially my coleus. I'm taking and rooting cuttings as fast as I can, but with all this rain, I may have to bring some of the propagation trays in to keep them alive.

Of course, some plants are loving it -- especially the tropical foliage plants and the ones that love water like the ferns and brugmansias. One of my figs had been badly underwatered lately, and dropped all of its leaves, but now it's putting out new leaves and has a few fall fruits, which it never has before. That's great, since the spring fruits mostly dried up and dropped off because of the heat.

AND we have our first potential hurricane heading for the gulf coast, around Gulfport MS, it looks like.

How do they do here? I tried to buy some online, but I got scammed. They sent seeds instead of bulblets and I read that if you grow them from seeds, they don't put out the bulblets. The bulblets are INSANELY expensive, so thought maybe I could buy some off of a local gardener, or do a trade, if you like ornamentals or tropicals.

One was my new UF-bred coleus. Most of them were large varieties that really grew like mad! I didn't realize how big they would get and they really made a showing. One of them was not what the tag said, but it turned out to be a very unusual plant that I now love.

Another surprise was that my yellow rain lilies, which I've had for many years, finally had one bloom! I got a few seeds, scattered them into a bowl of water, and they already have one little leaf, so I can transplant them soon.

Wicked Witch -- one of my new favorites!

Went out about 8:30 am and had to go put socks and a long sleeved shirt on. Only got up to 75. Very nice, but I had so much to do, didn't have much time to play in the garden.

I know, this is the "fake fall," and then the "second summer," then the real fall, but one can dream, right?

I think my biggest disappointment was how badly the peppers and eggplant did. I didn't think the eggplant had lived, but it sent up a sprout that quickly got over 5 feet tall, and even bloomed, but no eggplants. I thought the peppers would do better, since they love the heat, but nope. The Cubanelle that had survived the winter came back out and grew, had two small peppers, then just stopped. The red pepper that survived died, so I planted a few red pepper seeds from a store-bought pepper, but they have taken way too long to grow.

The only thing that has done well is the malabar spinach, but I need to cut that out, because I planted two in a 5-gallon pot with two okra plants, and it's choking them out, just as they're about to bloom.

I'm also mad at myself because I have no room to plant anything else, because I never sold the plants I had grown to sell, and I don't know why. I just couldn't make myself take the pictures and list them.

So all in all, summer had been a bust for any veggies, and I'm looking forward to October to see if they do anything when it cools down.

I won't be able to participate in a group plant swap/sale this year, so feel free to set one up amongst yourselves.

I've decided to sell most of my plants with an eye to probably leaving here next year, because the rent is just too much for me. Have no idea where I would go, but hopefully somewhere close but cheaper, although south Georgia is looking tempting.

For those of you who want to swap/sell now, there is our

r/GainesvilleGardenSwap group, plus there is a Gainesville plant sales reddit somewhere on here.

I create a monthly thread and mark it as a megathread, but this time, that option is missing from the bottom of the post. Has something changed?

Desktop Windows 11

I don't know if you know this, but cashiers can add or delete items from self-checkout transactions. It's very useful when you accidentally double scan an item. I have had one cashier add my watermelon so I didn't have to lift it, but they yelled over and told me they were doing it.

Last week, I went to Aldi and something showed up on my receipt that I hadn't purchased. I went back over my receipt, and everything I had purchased was on there, plus this item. I took it back to the store and asked them to check and see what it was, because it was exactly the same price as a bag of produce I had bought, which was almost $5. Since produce is weighed, it seemed strange that it would be EXACTLY that same price.

They checked it and gave me a refund, but I will still check my receipts in the future.

In fact, it's not a bad idea to check all of your receipts, because Walmart once double charged me for a $50 item, which I caught immediately. I didn't check out myself, and I know the cashier only rang it up once, so something went wrong somewhere. Anyway, they acted like they didn't want to give me the money back, and said they needed to check the video to see if I had only bought one, and they would get in touch with me. I refused to leave the store until I had my money back. They said it could take hours. I said "I'll wait." Ten minutes later, the store manager came and apologized to me and refunded me the money. I check every single receipt from there now before I leave the store.

I got these when Joanne Fabrics was going out of business and I was looking for beads to use for earrings. These are two strand spacer bar beads. I don't make necklaces or bracelets, I only make earrings, and obviously, I can't make earrings with these. Can anybody give me some ideas?

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I would GLADLY get rid of everything I own and be a van lifer, but I'm stuck here because my sons don't want me to get rid of some family heirloom furniture pieces, plus one is living in Europe and has left a lot of his stuff in my apartment.

These are not children. One is a GenX and one is a Millenial.

I'm trapped in a place I hate, paying so much rent I can't enjoy my life, and I can't do much about it, because storage is outrageous around here, especially climate controlled storage.

I've told them I'm going to sell the furniture if they can't take it and they both had a fit. I know they are not going to ship this furniture across the country or across the ocean. I feel like they are doing this to control me so I won't go off and be a van lifer.

What would you do?

ETA: Lots of good advice here, but I need to add that I just renewed my lease for a year, so if I tell them now that they have to do something with it by next year, they have plenty of time, right?

I wanted to add just one line tagging someone, but I can't. Also, do pics show up when you repost or do they just get a link to the original post?

I have a monthly thread that I post and highlight. When I do, I take down the old one, but leave it on the sub in case someone wants to look back at it. I just made the new monthly post, and highlighted it, but I can't find the old one, or any of the old monthly posts. It should have been in the highlights, but it's not.

I usually highlight them as a megathread, if that helps.

PHOTO PROBLEM SOLVED, FREEZING PROBLEM NOT SOLVED.

How do I stop it so I can remove some of the images and repost? I can't do anything with it while it's trying to load.

On another front, FF froze my computer twice today already, and once yesterday. I don't know why. I think maybe I type too fast for it, and it thinks I'm a bot, but why would it freeze the entire computer?

Someone named u/ModCodeOfConduct just took over my r/floridagardenexchange sub. It seems this person is just collecting subs. The sub was dormant but I did not intend to give it up. Now I cannot even comment on posts.

What is going on?

Every day, when I log into FF, it gives me an update popup, sometimes two. I'm so sick of this. I got some advice once about how to stop it, and I did, but now it's back.

I've run every virus and malware program and it's not that. Why should I have to update FF every day?