Marathon Sunday Captivity Activities - 2019

Yorkville life on Marathon Sunday.

Living on the east side of First Avenue, every first Sunday of November means we need to plan on staying put in the neighborhood until much of the New York City Marathon is over.  So, with the sun out yesterday, what better day to plan to transition the tropicals indoors?

But the day started with hauling out to cheer on a high school friend running in the marathon. In years past, sometimes I have missed my tracked runners altogether - easier now that there's a tracking app, but still, there are lots of runners to scan and locate. So this year, a sign was in order. And, drawing inspiration from all the other runners to get up and move...

... off to walk and check out the Smashing Pumpkins event at Andrew Haswell Green Park on the East River Esplanade ...

Finally, back to the task at hand. The old mandevillas did not grow much over the season, and some departed for plant heaven, so one got dug up and consolidated into the planter with the other old timer mandevilla; the interwebs say the tubers aren't really necessary to the plant, but just in case, I decided to move them too and delay any experimental trimming for next Spring. The baby apple trees grown from seeds of a delicious apple moved into the same planter - all a bit crowded, but they can keep each other company New York City style.

Happily, the Thai lime recovered from my neglect of last Winter. Not sure how it will do without a main leader trunk; we shall see. Bringing it in made clear there are little offshoots that will be too close to the main growths, so I decided to try to train them to grow a little more outward.

By dark (earlier now with the end of Daylight Saving time), everyone had been settled into the "Winter Greenhouse" - a.k.a. the unoccupied windowsills in the guestroom.

[Edited February 8, 2025 primarily to intersperse text with photos and remove "compromised" tag.]