Our apartment has a wind tunnel from front to back. On really bad days F has to close the back doors to stop the procession of tumbleweed balls of cat fur, sloughed plant material from the balcony pot plants, and a generous helping of topsoil from the Greek countryside, from rolling through the apartment.
Today was a really bad day. Usually the tumbleweed is spread out enough to be able to ignore most of it. Today is like the season changed in a day.
Just because you can start an avocado from a pit, should you? And then should you expect someone else to keep it alive because you made big deal out of growing it for them as a special gift? (and even named it - Aunty Pili called it Isabel. Is that a sensible name for an avocado? Is there any sensible name for an avocado?)
There is probably a reason (maybe several reasons) why avocados aren't dropping off trees all around us like oranges do. F isn't really into plants that can't stick up for themselves in the environment they have been presented with - so this avocado is going to have to toughen up or slope off.
oh yum avocado plants - wish we had one in our garden, I just about live on them.
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ReplyDeleteOh what a giggle I had just before my bedtime... I sooooo love avocado and wish I had a tree. But in the garden. In warm weather. And already to produce fruit. All soft and tender done with. Is there a slope to which it can off? Hugs and whiskeries, YAM-aunty xxx
ReplyDeleteAre you feeling a bit itchy and moulty Tigger because we are, its time to shed our summer coats and get a thicker winter one on. We leave masses of tumble weed all over the carpet. Dad hoovered it all up today but don't worry we'll make sure there's lots there again in the morning.
Rupert, Rowan, Willow, Princess and Polly
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I been itchy and moulty all summer. I like the vacuum cleaner, i wish F would get it out more often, and suck air through my fur. When Mr B comes home I'll get F to post little video he has of me getting a vacuum bath. Slow blinks to RRWPP. Mr T
DeleteI have a similar mind-set when it comes to plants - they either grow or they don't. I never had the time (or inclination) to fuss over something that wouldn't / couldn't survive the local conditions.
ReplyDeletePlant for place is much easier than trying to adapt the place to the plant. That's nature so why fight it aye?
DeleteThe north wind blows all that crap, minus the hair balls, in our front door. We are getting the beginning of the med cyclone today. Doesn't look like it's a north wind, yet.
ReplyDeleteI've got a few avocados to that stage and tried planting them. Doesn't happen. You've got to coddle or kill.
Good luck with that one
Mr B rang from UK on Wednesday night to warn us a storm was on its way... he's a bit of a weather watcher, but then he does do yacht deliveries for a living and was sitting in Dover waiting out a weather burst there. Tigger won't go out onto the balcony in this wind - keeps asking for the door to be opened and when the wind flattens his whiskers back, and has him bracing to stay on his feet he has a change of heart. Doesn't stop him asking again 15 minutes later. Same result.
DeleteThe avocado - F had no expectation that it would make it beyond infancy. We might give it away and let someone else be disappointed by its inability to survive.
Avocado trees grow really big.
DeleteSo I would take that into consideration as well.
Hope you didn’t get too many strong winds from the cyclone
Winds were pretty mild here, but we did wind the blinds in early just in case. You must be lucky enough to live where avocados thrive. They don't thrive here.
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