New Additions

Yesterday, I was able to get more Japanese Maples, or Acer palmatum, plants into my plant population. A couple of days ago, my family went on a trip to see our grandparents. My grandmother is also an great gardener, and when we told her that we were growing plants, she gave my sisters some succulants. Along with that, she found some pots that were the size that I used for my Japanese Maples, and gave me 15 of them, the size of one tray of seedlings. On the saturday after wecame back, I potted some more seedlings. I also had a 16th pot lying around the house, and I accidentally put a strawberry seedling in it instead of a Japanese Maple seedling. Along with being able to make another tray of seedlings, I also found out that my mother had potted some seedlings a long time ago, and my sister had taken them and put them in the shad

e. When I found out about this, I repotted them into larger pots. I know have about ten new additions to my set of maples that are outside of trays. On other news besides Japanese Maples, the chives are rapidly growing tall. Also, my older sister has been working on growing Mint plants, but she grew them from parts of roots, so she wasn't able to see if they were growing, but now, the first leaves are peeking out of the dirt. actually, that happened about a week ago. Right now, there are leaves popping out all over the place.

Into the Sun

For the past couple of days, my Japanese Maple seedlings, or Acer palmatum seedlings, have been hidden from the sun in an area protected by bushes, trees, and other large plants. We left the seedlings in the shade because seedlings go through a lot of stress in their roots when they are being moved into pots. This is because the roots become exposed, and also might have ripped while being transferred into pots. These seedlings may wilt if we put them in the sun straight after they are transferred to pots. So for the past five days, my Japanese Maples have been in the safety of the shade. Now that the roots are coming back to normal and there are no big wilting problems, we have now moved the pots into the sun, allowing the Maple Trees to collect sunlight. With luck, the plants will grow quicker now, and not wilt. Along with the movement of the seedlings, there is also news about the newly potted chives. After three days of being potted, the chives have started to have new growths. This is good news! Maybe we will have chives for later on in the year!