So, remember the avocado seed that was doing well and then wasn't? Rumor has it that we had it growing upside down.
The Moral of the Story: Put the avocado seed in water, wide-side down.
Very interesting. And here I am, blogging away, trying to inspire others to follow my gardening lead.
It reminds me of my first job. Museum of Science and Industry in Tampa, FL. I was a 16 year-old, and I rotated every thirty minutes to a different part of the museum: I ran the hurricane machine, I presented liquid nitrogen shows (yes, they even had me pour it down my arm), and I staffed the butterfly garden. I would delight in showing people the tiny, white butterfly eggs hidden snugly under the leaves. People would exclaim, "Oh. I'm so glad you pointed them out to me; I would've mistaken those for aphids and sprayed them."
A few months passed. Amber, the resident entomologist, stopped by to check on the garden. She poked around for a while and said, "Oh. Looks like we've got to get rid of these aphids."
So, for your own sake and the sake of your garden, please double-check any advice I give you in Google.
"You don't have a garden just for yourself. You have it to share."
ReplyDelete--Augusta Carter