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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?
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
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.
As usual, I got the first seed catalog in early December. Not many have come though.
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Going to start a garden this year, by the time I could get to it last year it was too late to plant.
Thinking of going a raised bed method with some ground plants (raspberry/blackberry) and fruit trees mixed in.