[JustaDumbBlonde]

Previous weeks' threads:

Weekly Gardening Thread (Catalog Fever) Vol. 1 Jan 6, 2012
Weekly Gardening Thread (Seeds) Vol. 2, January 13, 2012
Weekly Gardening Thread Vol. 3, January 20, 2012
Weekly Gardening Thread (U.S. Hardiness Zones) Supplemental Vol. 1
Weekly Gardening Thread (Soil Types) Vol. 4, January 27, 2012
Weekly Gardening Thread (Vacation) Vol. 5, February 03, 2012
Weekly Gardening Thread (Vacation) Vol. 6, February 10, 2012
Weekly Gardening Thread (Vacation?) Vol. 7, February 17, 2012
Weekly Gardening Thread (Home Sweet Home) Vol. 8, February 24, 2012
Weekly Gardening Thread (Soil Structure Part 1) Vol. 9, March 2, 2012
Weekly Gardening Thread (Transplanting Tomatoes) Vol. 10, March 9, 2012
Weekly Gardening Thread (Useful Links) Vol. 11, March 16, 2012
Weekly Gardening Thread -- Vol. 12, March 23, 2012
Weekly Gardening Thread -- Vol. 13, March 31, 2012

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[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

Bought four bunches of green/spring onions at the supermarket. Stuck ‘em in the ground. They’re doing fine. North Shore of Ohio.

[ImProudToBeAnAmerican]

Home garden coming along nicely - 12 of 14 raised beds planted - everything but 1 type of watermelon up and happy.

This is a bit of a tangent, but it is garden related and it is Good Friday.

I am raising $500 to help a small Christian orphanage in Pakistan start a chicken farm and vegetable garden - so they can feed and support themselves.

The Facebook page is: ‘Love and Hope Christian Orphanage’.

50 X $10 buys 50 chickens and everything they need to make this dream a reality.

You can ‘buy’ a chicken via PayPal: loveandhopeproject@gmail.com.

18 chickens raised so far - only 32 to go.

Thank you!

[MissMagnolia]

We have been drying some of the gorgeous spring flower blooms in the garden for later use in craft projects - cards, bookmarks, etc. What we are using to dry the flowers is the 'Microfleur' Flower Press Kit for Microwave Ovens. It works very well - you can dry flowers in minutes rather than weeks. We have been quite pleased ..... here's a link:

Microfleur Flower Press

[JustaDumbBlonde]

[Silentgypsy]

A very blessed Easter to you and to the rest of the gardeners!

[TASMANIANRED]

Happy Easter to you as well.

Can’t get into the garden for the rain..Every day this past week.

Onions in the raised beds are doing well.

[JustaDumbBlonde]

norton, about the tomato suckers, I forgot to add that if you use a sharp knife or snips to cut the suckers, you can place them in a glass of water and they will form roots along the entire stem that is submerged. Start with a good-sized sucker and you'll have a good start on your late tomatoes. Or, you can take some of the suckers from the late summer tomatoes and start your fall crop. Saves big!

My husband used to sneak into the garden and pinch suckers, because his momma was one of those oldtimers that told him suckers MUST be removed. It took me 2 or 3 years of threatening him with his life to get him to stop. The little wilted ones laying on the ground always give him away :)

[Tatze]

Hello gardeners. I’m feeling a bit overwhelmed with a project going on. Last year, during my Master Gardener class, I suggested to my church a Mission Garden. We couldn’t get it together for last year, but they came back to me in January saying they really wanted to get it going for this year. I think I would have preferred more time, but it is what it is.

So last weekend, we got our “small” plot for the garden turned, tilled and plowed into twenty 30-foot rows for general veggies and six 80-foot rows for corn. So, “small” became somewhat larger. My home garden is not even 100 square feet, probably the equivalent of 2.5 rows of the Mission Garden.

I just finished a garden plan and our first round of planting is tomorrow morning. Lots to worry about. We still need to figure out an irrigation system, a trellis system, and a volunteer system to make sure the garden is tended often enough. I’m just hoping its not a complete disaster. But even if moderately successful, with the size of the garden, we should be delivering hundreds of pounds of vegetables to a couple of local soup kitchens.

[diamond6]

Question, question......can Comet Red Daisies be transplanted via the stem (like a geranium)?

[Darth Reardon]

My squash plant that got ahold of the lattice on the side of the house that was supposed to be for growing beans and peas is now about 9' high and 13' wide (not counting the runner that's gotten into the lemon tree about 10' away). I was just thinking the other day that I need something growing on the west side of the house to shade the afternoon sun. Another fig would be nice, but I've read that they shouldn't be up next to the house (which the one I have currently is). Maybe I'll grow some squash over there, it's not like a lot of light is going to get through.

All of my squash fruits were shrivelling off and rotting. Of the possible causes I found, lack of pollination seemed like the easy one to start with. Early results look promising...

[ApplegateRanch]

Found an interesting link, on the Old Farmer’s Almanac site, by accident: http://www.almanac.com/plant/celery

I’m posting the celery link because it has hot-links to Zones 2-10, which is more than any of the other plants I checked.

Clicking on a numbered Hardness Zone link bring up a page of links to individual flowers, veggies, and fruits —with a picture— that grow in that zone.

Clicking on a plant’s link brings up a wealth of general information on growing that particular plant.

I tried every which way to find a direct link to the Zone links, but couldn’t find one, so the “celery” page will have to do.

For that matter, the entire site is well worth a gardener’s time to visit: http://www.almanac.com/

[SunkenCiv]

I’ve got some seeds started indoors, and the easy stuff (crookneck squash) is up. By this time next week I’ll probably be killing a giant in the clouds, wait, that’s wrong...

[tubebender]

I set some type of new record this month when I got 99% gemination of my Sugar Snap peas that I started in the foam Speeding trays plus Lady Bender got 94.3% of her dwarf Snoo-Peas in cells. Now if the blast rain would stop we could transplant them...