It's going to rain today AND tomorrow, so our work day out in the club garden's been canceled (I'd say postponed, but the next time people can meet together is I-don't-know-when, so I'm going to say canceled). Currently, I'm also guessing that it means that the Central Park day's canceled also.
Chives are still growing, in all of their green, spindly glory. Neither the Dracaena or the coleus have germinated yet. The seeds I've been swapping on Garden Web finally came through and I received my seeds (traded in some poppies and about seven Dracaena seeds)! It's pretty exciting receiving the stuff in the mail. Now I have some feverfew (mailed from Rhode Island), St. John's wort, columbine (music mix cultivar, so what if they don't breed true? They're COLUMBINES), bee balm, cockscomb, blue flax, and bellflower (mailed from Georgia). I've been picking up a few tricks on soil amendments and square foot gardening, so there's plenty I can try out. Although I guess I won't really have time until Spring Break (and depending on the progression of my thesis, maybe not even then).
I can still start a few things indoor, though. A bit of the feverfew went into a pot (my last pot of reserve soil I have at Davis, oh noes) on Wednesday, and we'll see when it germinates.
Random info: ferulic acid is a part of lignocellulose that helps lignin crosslink (chemical interactions) with polysaccharides to increase the rigidity of cell walls. I.e., it's why seed coats are hard. It's also an antioxidant and I think some people do take like, though honestly I think vitamin C's probably more useful.
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