Posted on 03/31/2017 4:36:55 PM PDT by greeneyes
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Also, the tomato stalks I cut last year and stuck in dirt have grown quite a bit, and several have flowers. I will be transplanting those as soon as I think the frost won't be a problem.(experimenting how to get earlier tomatoes than usual).
Since they have grown in length, I plan to pull off many of the leaves, and just keep the leaves and flowers and bury all the rest of the stem.
Garlic is looking fine with just a bit of brown from frigid winter temps. Spinach and winter lettuce planted last fall are growing and need to be picked and something else planted.
One of the raised beds has been entirely taken over by a wild mint, so that's number 1 project. Number two project is to plant taters left over from last year, and then buy some Yukon Gold for this year additional tater planting.
Strawberries are perking up - hoping to get a crop this year. So busy with other things right now barely have time to do anything with garden or housework, so garden stuff takes a back seat for a while, as the housework is in the middle seat.
I can't believe that March has already come and practically gone. Have a great weekend.
Prayers up for all. God Bless.
Our mango tree is baring. we have 150 pounds of mangos waiting to go into the dehydrator
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It’s still too wet here. I need a few weeks with no rain so I can hook my tiller up to the tractor.
I did get some tomatos planted the other day in one of my raised beds. The strawberries are looking nice (also in a raised bed). The garlic just comes up naturally every year.
I’m ready to get the corn, lima beans and southern pink eye peas planted in the regular garden. I’ll probably plant some okra too this year.
I’ll get the eggplant, onions, bell pepper and zucchinni planted next week in the raised beds.
The Leghorns are laying as always and the bream and bass should be biting in my pond, just need to find the time to go.
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Still snowing here in the Colorado Rockies. The forecast is that we may get up to 16 inches tonight. I need to get early starts going indoors. I always seem to wait too late.
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Whoo Hoo! That’s a lot of dehydrating goin on.
Been so wet, so cool that peas are struggling...got greens regrowing from last season, tho. Peonies are up 6 inches and camelia is finally starting to bloom. This has been a winter/spring like in the 50s...lots of rain, clouds all the time...depressing. Need sun!
Hubby too is frustrated with the wet ground and he can’t do what he wants right now in the gardens.
I have several 3x4 beds totaling 100 sq. ft. approximately, and they are mostly “Mels Mix” from the sq. ft. gardening directions. So they will drain and be ready within a day or less.
Just now was discussing my lack of time and desire to plant taters, Hubby said he would get the beds ready-thank goodness for the volunteer. LOL
I managed to get 1 of 4 raised beds weeded this past week. It was full of wild onions (from the soil I put in it last year) so that was really “fun”. I have one more bed with the wild onion problem, but not as bad as the one I just did.
Found a new canning recipe which should take care of my jalapeno pepper overflow that has happened the last two years. It’s for a Sweet Jalapeno Pickle Relish. Here’s the link:
http://www.cdkitchen.com/recipes/recs/2522/Sweet-Jalapeno-Pickle-Relish118275.shtml
My laptop crashed Monday & wasn’t worth repairing so I had to get another one. So far, so good - still getting everything back (I did have backups) & have been working on it since late this morning. It’s been raining all day (over an inch) so it was a good day to stay inside and mess with this sort of thing. Mower is back from the shop so I’ll be mowing fields all weekend - weather is supposed to be gorgeous.
NEED SUN! Amen to that! I hate gloomy, cool, wet spring days. Give me sunshine in any season to make things feel better, and give me energy. LOL
I have so much bleeping gardening news... spent a small mint to keep me outside and my mind semi-off the news lately.
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I’m trying out those laundry-basket strawberry planters you see all over YouTube, plus putting down landscape cloth to see if my Brilliant Idea for ground cherry harvest will work. (Ground cherries fall off when they’re ripe. I am thinking if I plant them on a steep slope with slick mulch, they will slide right down to where they’re easy to gather, but I have yet to be able to test this. :) And next Saturday (ish) the tomato seedlings get transplanted, which is always a cause for rejoicing at my house.
I have turned off all news sources. Focused only on private business matters taking up all my time, except for the smidge I am stealing for the garden thread. LOL
I’m jealous! I am not in a mango-friendly zone but have high hopes for a sunken greenhouse next year.
*BUMP*
...for Saturday Morning Coffee! Busy tonight. ;)
I always intend to do early starts, but never get around to it. I don’t know that I could deal with the late snows that happen in the Colorado Rockies. Missouri is sometimes more than I want to deal with.
Wish I was rich enough to be a snow bird, and live somewhere nice and warm during the winter. LOL
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