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.....
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.
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!
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.
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.
Would y’all oblige me by posting your favorite Seed Catologes Please . . . TIA
Happy new year!
It’s 84 here...will probably cool off though after sundown. :-)
Temperatures have been fluctuating wildly lately. As usual, daffodil leaves are the first to pop out of the ground. Chinese cabbages doing well, as is Swiss chard. Going to sow lettuce seeds today. There has been lots of rain lately. The weather reports predict even more rain again this weekend. IMHO, we need to dry out a bit before more rain.
Not much to report, still going through catalogs and drying seeds.
I did see that the owners of St Lawrence Nurseries are retiring, and they aren’t sure how long it will be before someone else in the family takes over. So, if you’ve been thinking of ordering from them, this might be the year to do it!
No further progress on the old smokehouse soon-to-be potting shed. Maybe now that the holidays are over the construction crew will decide to show up for work and get it finished.
In the time it’s been sitting there the dang chickens have discovered that there’s a hole in the garden fence. They’ve wiped out what was left of my brussels sprouts, but the garlic remains unscathed so far. It will be safe for now, at least until the ground thaws.