Posted on 03/20/2015 12:49:03 PM PDT by greeneyes
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Hope all is well with everyone. Have a good weekend. God Bless.
I got a little more outdoor cleanup done during the nice days. I had to weed a couple of raised beds (unusual). Some sort of invasive wild mint. I am wondering if it was the straw I used as mulch last year, but can't remember which beds I used it on.
I was also able to harvest some spinach to use this week for addition to my salads. Giant winter spinach, and Bloomsdale. Since Bloomsdale did just as well if not better than the Giant, I will be just using it going forward.
Bloomsdale is reputed to be one of the best for warm weather too. Last year I tested in by planting it in a raised bed shaded in the afternoon by a tree, and it did just fine. Bottom line it will be my staple for year round fresh spinach.
The last paragraph didn’t print. Hope you are all doing well. Have a good weekend. God Bless.
Pinging the List.
Now that’s weird, I just noticed that the last paragraph printed out as the second paragraph.
One more week of radiation treatment is over. One more week to go. Be glad when it's done and I can quit the drive.
/johnny
/johnny
That reminds me, I should check our little patch to make sure no weed are taking over. We didn’t plant it, just another edible that happened to come up in our yard.
Glad you are getting close to then end of this radiation thing too.
Oh LOL. I know I only pinged once. Just another strange thing. This new computer is often doing stuff, that I have no idea what is happening.
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I'm glad to hear it! It must be exhausting.
Thanks for starting the thread weekly.
/johnny
You are welcome. I look forward to hearing from everyone.
Spring has sprung!
The grass has riz!
I wonder where all the flowers is?................
Saw this & thought it might be of interest .... as for me, I’m still going to be doing tomatoes the “old fashioned” way this year.
Grafted Vegetables – The Future of Vegetable Gardening?
https://viettes.wordpress.com/2015/03/06/grafted-vegetables-the-future-of-vegetable-gardening/
Glad to hear you are nearly done with the radiation. I hope you are doing well. Sounds like you are doing better than you expected to after the radiation, anyway. Praying for you, fellow Texan :)
LOL. They can’t be too far behind.
Thanks for link. While it’s an interesting topic, I too will stick with the old fashioned way, as well as some of the really old fashioned varieties.
One of the two dozen garden magazines is offering grafted tomatoes.
Why for I’m not sure.
Hi all, here in west Michigan we still have a few piles of snow around. It’s been in the low 50’s high 40’s this week and about 25-30 at night. Asparagus is first in our garden too, we have a nice healthy patch that gave us a lot last year. Looking forward to it. Have not had a single drop of rain yet this year. We need some badly. I gott some seeds I ordered from rareseeds.com this week. Red carrot (atomic), monster yellow peppers, long yellow radish and some small variety bok choi. Johnny, glad to hear your treatments are going well. Wish we lived closer, I’m sure a lot of us would volunteer to help you get a garden in this year.
We are very fortunate, here in Missouri. The spring season is very rainy, and now that we have the swimming pool set up to catch rainwater from the roof, we have had plenty for our gardens to last through the dry months.
zone 6
All my onion seedlings died in a week after I took the plastic cover off the starter tray because they needed the room.
Last week I tilled a section of the garden and planted seeds. Hope I get some onions.
Also planted ‘Mammoth Melting Sugar’ peas and some leftover seeds.
Daffodils are blooming here.
My dining room table is covered with seedlings and sprouts and everything. I have given up trying to convince/insist that my husband keep them downstairs under the lights.
The pie pumpkins and CORN he started waaaaaay too soon. And again we have a ton of all kinds of peppers.
Which reminds me, I have kept that one extreme hot pepper plant alive through the winter. One branch of it anyway. I do not know if it will hang in there till May, or if it will come back all right if it makes it until it can be moved outside.
And I believe my husband has plans to occupy MY side of the garden. It’s not bad enough that he swiped all of the compost and good soil last year, now he wants my land. We shall see about that!
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