Posted on 01/02/2015 1:27:52 PM PST by greeneyes
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I now have 8 seed catalogs - Hallalujah. Time for tea and perusing them. I just like to look at the catalog and circle 2 or 3 from each category.
Next, I'll check what seeds are left from 2014 and 2013 and check the seeds I saved from last year. Then I'll make up the list for the orders.
I am going to concentrate on Tomatoes, potatoes, green peppers, garlic, and corn this year, but will probably do a few experimental ones too. Bountiful gardens has some heritage corn that they have been breeding for a sweeter flavor using open pollination, and away from the corn belt GMO types.
I am still trying to figure out this new computer with 8.1 and haven't found any kind of office suite. Really miss my spreadsheets.
Have a great weekend. God Bless.
Pinging the List.
I actually picked some chives for my Salmon yesterday! Up near Cleveland!
I got my garlic in last fall.
And I planted plenty of it so should have a good crop.
I need to sit sown with my gardening catalogs as well.....
Eight more weeks to March.....
That reminds me, I need to harvest some basil, it’s totally out of space indoors. I was able to harvest 3 lemons and gave one to each one of my adult children/grandchildren at Christmas.
I just got a new laptop after mine crashed in November. I had Windows 7 & the new one is Windows 8.1. To make 8.1 look like Windows 7, you can download a free utility called “Classic Shell” (go to Filehippo & type Classic Shell in the search box). The tech who helped me (pronounced my laptop officially deceased) told me that should be the FIRST thing I put on it after taking it out of the box.
For an “office suite”, use OpenOffice .... it is free, compatible with Word/Excel.
I plant garlic in the fall too. I haven’t checked on it lately though. Did I mention that I hate to go outside when it’s cold? LOL
Our New Year’s Eve started off with the heat pump totally frozen up .... this after having an expensive sensor board replaced Dec. 15. After “much ado” today, a new heat pump will be coming Monday, Tuesday latest .... good thing since arctic air will be here Wednesday!
Thank you so much, I’ll try it all.
We’ve had some nights lately with lows in the mid-teens.
We have 5 seed catalogs, but I know that more will be arriving. We’re going to concentrate on tomatoes, peppers, parsley, rosemary, basil, cucumbers, squash and lettuces. Our little carrots and some of our tomatoes were failures last year, but we had fun. We may even do the container corn again, just for kicks.
We have some leftover seeds as well, and I think that there’s a good chance that they’ll sprout, given our previous experience.
Chives! That’s what I forgot!
Happy New Year To You and all on the Gardening List. I need to plant some flower seeds, but it,s rainy and in the mid thirties here.
It is impossible to hijack the Weekly Gardening Thread.
Ha! You haven’t been discovered by humblegunner.
Winter barley is doing well. Time to think about tomato and pepper seed starts.
Still eating tomatoes and green beans from the summer garden. Canned a bunch of green bell pepper and onion relish that should last a while. Next summer I am just going to do fewer tomatoes, more green beans, and fewer peppers. I might try herbs.
Noticed that Gurneys has replaced their Big Beef tomatoes (best tomatoes I’ve ever grown, and that includes Mortgage Lifters) with a new strain they have developed called Tasty Beef which yields larger fruits. Not sure that will work out, the other ones were perfect.
Anyone into hydroponics? I’m a newbie.
Compost piles have gone cold, too - how many weeks 'til spring?
No lemons on my two little trees, but the lime tree is full of ripe fruit :)
Would y’all oblige me by posting your favorite Seed Catologes Please . . . TIA
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