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Weekly Gardening Thread – 2010 Vol. 03 – January 22
Free Republic | 01-22-2010 | Red_Devil 232

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 year’s 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!


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Weekly Gardening Thread

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1 posted on 01/22/2010 7:16:57 AM PST by Red_Devil 232
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To: Diana in Wisconsin; gardengirl; girlangler; SunkenCiv; HungarianGypsy; Gabz; billhilly; Alkhin; ...
Ping to the Weekly Gardening Ping List.

I hope all of you will stop by.

This is typically a low volume ping list. Once a week for the thread and every once in a while for other FR threads posted that might be of interest.

If you would like to be added to or removed from the list please let me know by FreepMail or by posting to me.

2 posted on 01/22/2010 7:17:28 AM PST by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: Red_Devil 232

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!


3 posted on 01/22/2010 7:20:15 AM PST by Happyinmygarden (Yes, actually, I have pretty much seen and heard it all before...)
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To: Red_Devil 232

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?


4 posted on 01/22/2010 7:20:55 AM PST by doodad
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To: Red_Devil 232
Five inches of fresh snow on the way today, spring is coming though and we have lots of planting planned...
5 posted on 01/22/2010 7:21:57 AM PST by Leo Farnsworth (I'm really not Leo Farnsworth.)
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To: Leo Farnsworth

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.


6 posted on 01/22/2010 7:27:30 AM PST by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: Red_Devil 232

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...


7 posted on 01/22/2010 7:28:37 AM PST by stefanbatory (Weed out the RINOs! Sign the pledge. conservativepledge.org)
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To: Red_Devil 232

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.


8 posted on 01/22/2010 7:28:51 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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Well ... after watching the pond freeze over 2 weeks ago because it was 15 degrees ... today it will be 70 (just like it was yesterday) and I really have to remind myself that it is January and winter is not over -- well, at least for another month here in Louisiana. I assume you're enjoying the same heat wave, Red.
9 posted on 01/22/2010 7:28:54 AM PST by JustaDumbBlonde
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To: afraidfortherepublic

do you plant them in a greenhouse or something?


10 posted on 01/22/2010 7:31:14 AM PST by stefanbatory (Weed out the RINOs! Sign the pledge. conservativepledge.org)
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To: Red_Devil 232

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.


11 posted on 01/22/2010 7:31:56 AM PST by Betis70 (Never Forget)
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To: Red_Devil 232

BUMP for after chores. :)


12 posted on 01/22/2010 7:32:21 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (Save the Earth. It's the only planet with chocolate.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

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.


13 posted on 01/22/2010 7:36:18 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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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


14 posted on 01/22/2010 7:37:17 AM PST by poobear
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To: stefanbatory

No. I don’t have a greenhouse. I’m just getting ready for May. Thinking ahead. Way ahead.


15 posted on 01/22/2010 7:37:24 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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To: Red_Devil 232

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.


16 posted on 01/22/2010 7:39:56 AM PST by Dutchgirl ("What I believe about God is the most important thing about me." A.W. Tozer)
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It has been a few years since Humboldt county has had rain like this. The garden is too thin to plow but too thick to drink. We generally have a False Spring in late Jan or early Feb but who knows this year. No river flooding here yet although the Eel reached flood warning Wed night but is receding now. The Dahlias need to be divided this year and that is a muddy mess and I hate it but someone has to do it. This weeks fishing report was written early this week before the rivers really got going but some of them drain faster then others... Steelhead Report
17 posted on 01/22/2010 7:45:13 AM PST by tubebender (Freeploaders = The illegal aliens on Free Republic)
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To: Red_Devil 232

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.


18 posted on 01/22/2010 7:47:04 AM PST by happydogx2 (Old memories are, well, old. It's better to make new ones then re-live the past.)
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To: Red_Devil 232

Please add me to the PING list.


19 posted on 01/22/2010 7:55:45 AM PST by dearolddad
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To: Dutchgirl
Yep! There will be a lot of ideas and help here on the the thread in the next few months!

I post the thread every Friday morning so stop by from time to time!

20 posted on 01/22/2010 7:57:51 AM PST by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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