It has been two weeks ago since I have posted my last #hivegarden #gardenjournal. I use these update posts to see how much things have grown over the weeks between the posts. And things are growing quite fast here in spring. We've had quite some sunny days in the past two weeks and the rain showers we had today and yesterday in the evening were quite welcome for my garden.

The lovely pink blossom of the crabapple that started two weeks ago has almost disappeared. The tree was visited by hundreds of bees. When I was standing under the tree it was almost like the sound of a drone. Now, after two weeks and some heavy rainfall in the weekend, it lost a lot of its blossoms. It was good for the rest of the garden though. And the purple ceanothus took over.

As I already said in the introduction; a lot can happen in just two weeks. Here are my Oxeye plants from two weeks ago and last weekend. They grow so quickly. It won't be long until they will start to grow their lovely yellow flowers.

I am trying to grow more Oxeye plants from the seed I collected last year. Quite a lot of them have germinated, but they grow slowly. I also put a lot of seeds together in one space, so it might be a bit hard so separate them. I don't dare to yet since they still look so fragile.
I wonder if I have to keep the lid on the greenhouse or not. Anyone tips?

The other seedlings are doing quite well. The cucumbers have been standing behind glass in the blazing sun for a while. You can tell they really took a hit judging by the yellow leaves. But I watered them quite a bit and they do seem to grow bigger now. I see secondary leaves already.

The peppers are growing slowly, but they are growing.

Same goes for the tomatoes.

Maybe you remember I seeded wildflower mix in my backyard last time. These have germinated quite well as you can see in the photo below. I'm really curious what this will look like in a few weeks.

Nephentes Monkey Jars

Another nice comparison to make is from my Nephentes Monkey Jars pitcher plant. Although my two plants only have one pitcher that is actually growing, it is growing quite rapidly. It's almost the size of my pink (and I have quite big hands 😂).

Propagation

I'm also trying to propagate some indoor plants. Last time I've removed two shoots from a succulent. I left them to dry in for a couple of days and planted them in propagation soil.
They seem to be doing quite well, aren't they?

One of the other projects is another succulent. It is really growing slowly, but it's just cool to see it forms a new plant just from a leaf I cut off from the mother plant. I held the tip of a ballpoint next to it so you can get a reference of its size.

Finally I've cut off a long stem of my Scindapsus Pictus Trebie, cut it into small parts and put it in water. These plants have so-called air roots. Little brown nodes near the leaves. When you put that into the water it starts to grow new roots by itself. As you can see, the cuttings are growing new roots already.

So this was it for now. I’d love to hear your thoughts on my update in the comments.

Friendlymoose