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To: TEXOKIE

So pleased that your stuff is doing so well. I have delayed even some of my planned starts indoors, because it is just so yucky.

The carrots, beets, and onions that could normally be started outdoors and row covered are going to be started in doors this year too, and I don’t want to transplant them until well into May.

Also I would normally have lettuce already growing under row covers, and be harvesting them at this time, but not this year.

We have both reduced our coffee consumption considerably this year. One or two cups at breakfast, so we don’t have as much grounds as we used to when we drank it constantly during the day. We have a new restaurant in town, so I may go see if they would let me have their used grounds.


73 posted on 04/04/2014 6:31:33 PM PDT by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Let Freedom Ring.)
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To: greeneyes

Thanks, greeneyes. I’m pretty excited about that parsley and the other little green babies!

Are you really going to hold out til May to plant???

I thought about lettuce, but after my disasters last year, I just can’t bring myself to try them again yet. I have purchased several different varieties of seed that supposedly are more heat tolerant, but I’m already getting a pretty full dance card! Just curious, would lettuce be a shady kind of plant?

Great idea about hitting up a restaurant for coffee grounds. Bet you can get some of those! I haven’t committed to working on an experimental compost heap yet, but I’m working my way toward it! It would be so simple to once a week get a few of them to put on a pile.


90 posted on 04/04/2014 9:44:02 PM PDT by TEXOKIE (We must surrender only to our Holy God and never to the evil that has befallen us.)
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