I hope to see all of you at the February meeting. We will be starting to really gear up for volunteers to sign-up for the various committees to help at our Annual Spring Show. Please, please, please sign-up and volunteer. The adage "many hands, makes light work" is really a true situation when it comes to our Spring Show. The more of you that sign up, the better off we all are!
I hope everyone managed to get through the winter rains and cool weather without losing any plants. I was disappointed to see one whole section of my greenhouse completely overrun by what my Mom used to call "artillery weed". I think the technical name is pilea microphylla ‐ look it up. It's that nasty tiny leafed weed that when you try to get rid of it, but you leave even one leaf behind, it grows and grows and grows. So I will be spending a lot of time trying to repot that whole section and hopefully get all the little teeny tiny itty bitty annoying weeds out of my plants. The sad thing is, it has taken over the bench that I had a lot of new plants prepped and growing from keiki last summer. The GOOD NEWS is that all those keiki are ready to be potted up into the next size pot....so there is a silver lining to my black cloud! Now if I can just make sure that I wash every single darn plant before repotting and get rid of that darn weed. I WANT MY NASTY FERNS BACK. I will never disrespect the fern invasion again. At least those are easier to pull out of the pots and get rid of than that darn artillery weed! See you at the meeting. ~Sheron |
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