Posted on 01/22/2010 7:16:56 AM PST by Red_Devil 232
Good morning gardeners! Let us all hope our California FRiends are faring well through all the winds, rain and mud slides. I am still working on indexing last years posts into categories. It has turned out to be a lot more challenging than I thought it would be. I hope I can complete and post it before this thread really takes off once Spring kicks in!
Weekly Gardening Thread
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Good morning. Rain is pouring down here in So. CA and I fear my gardening buddy and I won’t make it out to the nursery today as we had planned. Time to buy and plant bare root roses and prune. We are falling behind due to the weather.
Here’s a “stay warm and dry” to everyone across the country!
Happy Friday.
I chopped any stragglers into the soil this week and turned the entire bed with some fresh compost. I expect to fertilize the soil, add some more compost and top dress the bed with bark chips tomorrow.
We got notice that the garden officially reopens on March 20 so I am ordering seeds now.
Anybody have experience growing tomatillos in the Southeast?
We have been pushing 70 during the day and 40’s-50’s at night here in Mississippi. Cooler weather headed our way starting Monday.
we had a tornado tear thru here yesterday afternoon...all the neighbors’ lawn chairs and toys and whatnot were in my friends’ yard this morning. Then a tree branch hit their transformer at 1am...they didn’t sleep real well, I guess...
Just checking in. I’ll be back later. I’m still looking for those directions on how to plant potatoes in a bucket, or right on top of the ground.
do you plant them in a greenhouse or something?
Brr, wish I could think gardening, but it has been a fairly chilly winter (not much snow though). Not as bad as some parts of the country, but our January thaw barely got above freezing this year.
BUMP for after chores. :)
Oooops. I meant to say that there is not much going on (garden-wise) in Wisconsin. Still frozen.
We did have a fellow out at Lake Winnebago meet his maker earlier than he planned this week. He was working on a project with his fishing club to make a “reef” in the lake to improve the fishing. Drove a dump truck full of boulders out to the chosen spot on the ice and dumped them. Ice broke, dump truck, driver, and all the boulders went to the bottom. Early candidate for a Darwin Award, I’d say.
May he rest in peace.
It has been my observation that standing around in the cold too long can severely affect a person’s cognitive processes.
Hi Red Devil. I picked all the green tomatoes before the freeze in December. We fried some and the rest are still turning red in paper bags. Also picked and canned all the peas and pole beans and gave them away at Christmas. Everything is dead but the row of sweet onions and two containers of scallions. I’m turning everything this weekend and starting tomato seedlings along with bib lettuce and maybe some red leaf lettuce. Guess everything will be warm enough and ready for planting in late February or March.
The freeze was the worst in Florida in quite a while. Everything is brown. We had sleet and flurries two weekends ago.
Thanks for the Garden Thread and good luck with your indexing.
Florida Gardener
No. I don’t have a greenhouse. I’m just getting ready for May. Thinking ahead. Way ahead.
I am reviewing the results of my first attempt at gardening last fall. I loved having fresh herbs right outside my kitchen door, but I didn’t really plant enough okra to be able to harvest enough for a single pot of gumbo, my onions never sprouted, and my family hated the butter crunch lettuce I served them.
I’m going to watching this thread and hope to see some inspiring ideas.
We are currently having snow in Central Oregon, 3 inches so far and still falling.
I was able to get outside yesterday and do some dormant spraying on trees and bushes; I’m glad I did because you have to take advantage of days above 40 degrees here.
We are currently making plans as to what to put into the small garden we have this year.
That snow is pretty even knowing I’m going to have to outside and shovel it later today.
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