Posted on 03/14/2014 12:57:29 PM PDT by greeneyes
Posted on Friday, March 07, 2014 2:18:07 PM by greeneyes
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Great idea.... Just pay Uncle Sham his 50 cents envelope stamp and voila... but shhhhhh not too loud- the pols will want to tax it too da greedy tasbards.
Looks good to me. It’s giving me and idea. I am seeing a couple of sawhorses with some scrap boards laid on top and a bunch of pots I have on hand and some maybe even some milk jugs as a raised garden on the back patio for a handy herb and salad garden.
greeneyes, well, you’re off to a roaring start. brrr snow! It’s nice here, today.
Carrots, turnips, & spinach up & running (made a huge difference to get the carrots in earlier) +assorted herbs & flowers started.
Finally made it to Fanick’s Tuesday & got a flat of ValleyCats, a San Marzano as a replacement for the Romas I sought, & a Big Bertha Pepper plant. Trying to go back Sunday as they hadn’t gotten their trucks yet- :-/ will probably be wiped out again.
Thank you, greeneyes, Marcella, & patriot08, for the links. Needing a cherry tomato.
patriot08- Is there anything going on at Turner’s that I/ we should know about?
Wishing everyone a great weekend, too!
I don’t know that they are heirloom seeds. They are OP, supposedly.
I was more uncertain about my ability to save them correctly, than the seeds doing their thing correctly.
Greetings from the 5th Snowiest City In The United States, Rochester New York.
We had 18 inches of snow fall two days ago and a bitter storm but today it’s 53 degrees and sunny. It’s hell on earth for those of us blessed with sinuses.
There’s still about four inches of sludge and snow everywhere but it’s melting fast. We are supposed to get more snow for another week or so. The rule of thumb for vegetable garden planting in upstate New York to avoid risk of frosts is to wait until Memorial Day to plant.
I’ve got some landscaping projects to do long before then. I need to dig out an existing bed so I can reorganize it, dig a few brand new beds, dig a planting bed on the side of the house with the house that’s currently just weeds, and cut back those tall grasses that I never cut back last year.
I have a packet of free seeds Tomato Principe Borghese that I am going to try this year. Grape sized fruit. An Italian tomato famous for sun drying.
As I said on one of these threads, I wanted to build something a little nicer looking, but time got away from me, and I spotted these two shelf units sitting out in the weather with some other stuff and a little light went on. The boards are not very good ones that I never used for their original purpose. The bottom of the tubs is exactly 32” from the ground, which is just right to me for not having to bend over. This is just something for me to toy with, using some culled seedlings that would have been thrown away. They are about 3” tall but don’t show in this picture. Deeper tubs would have added too much weight when filled. It all may collapse in a soaking rainstorm anyway!
ping for later
This morning, picked some asparagus and lettuce and doing some pre-planting maintenance in the garden this afternoon. Going to be sore tomorrow.
This week, replanted the seed pots that didn’t come up because the house was too cold with the HVAC dying. The last indoor things to be started are the peanuts this weekend. After this, anything will be direct sowed.
This week’s cold snap got some of the chamomille and did a number on the ginger and cilantro.
The tomatillo has two flowers but it can’t go outside for another month.
Sounds like you have a full plate of projects just waiting to be tackled.LOL
Back at 'cha. Got the garden cleaned out and ready to till and plant the spring veggies. Hope we get the rain forecast for central Texas, even though I'll be on the road tomorrow morning and afternoon.
You will need to start your own thread for Mary Jane, then. Cops around here raided a house cause EMTs didn’t know the difference between that and medicinal herbs.
It’s a plant that I will never grow. I have no desire to grow it, and even if I did, it is not worth the risk.
Come on guys, this is Not the Mary Jane thread, please switch subjects to edible vegetables.LOL
Sounds like you’re off and running for a great season. Here’ hoping Mother Nature co-operates.
My pepper plants have little bitty flower buds.
Come-ON, spring !
Whoo Hooo! I see lil peppers in your near future.LOL
I just paid about $4 for 10 strawberry cuttings at Lowe’s and got them into some soil the other day. Hoping for some good results in a couple of months.
It’s true, I do have a ton of projects...
...and I can’t WAIT to get started! :D
Yeh PFR... in DFW so far this year only piddly amounts. Need a good ground soaking hydration sent from above--less the nasty stormy stuff of course.
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