WEEKLY GARDEN THREAD APRIL 28, 2017

freerepublic | April 28, 2017 | greeneyes

[SLB]

Tomatoes and peppers are in the ground. Asparagus is now going to seed in preparation for next season. Dug up a horseradish root just to see how it is doing after three years. HUGE!

[greeneyes]

I’m doing well. Thanks for asking. Staying home. We live on a hill with no significant streams between us and the grocery store. Sometimes the ditch at the bottom of the hill gets clogged with leaves and stuff, and makes a little water over the state highway.

The country roads have enough trouble that school was canceled for Monday. Had some people who commute to work that couldn’t get home or else couldn’t get in to work. I saw a photo on the news of I55 that looked a lot like the 1993 flood that I traveled when I was working and commuting.

Another quarter of an inch, and I55 would have been flooded too. It was too wet and cold today to plant taters, so I’m hoping to get it done soon. Hubby went out to work in the garden, but came back in and said it was too cold.

River etc. is supposed to go back down by Wednesday, but another storm is on the way. We usually have spring and fall-December floods, so it’s not that unusual. People around here who are impacted, tend to know how to be prepared for it. Of course there are lower spots that just have to be sandbagged-tends to be a yearly thing too.

Life goes on. At least we aren’t as cold as it is up North. LOL. I was lazy and ordered pizza delivery tonight. They had a substitute from a nearby town, due to some employees being trapped at home by creeks flooding the low-water bridges.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Glad to hear it. I fear my potatoes are rotting with out soppy-wet and chilly weather. We will see. Still time to re-plant if need be! :)

[pigsmith]

My poor little lettuce bunch has survived a trial by Fire-and-Ice, no thanks to my beginner's ignorance. First it sat too long under 8" of sudden snow. Brought it in to warm up; fast snow melt, then back outside to get some real light. End of sunny day found a mass of dead-looking wilted mess, brought back inside, soaked well, figured I've surely killed it. Half hour later, it appears the little bunch has survived in spite of me. Every dead leaf came back and plumped up.

Then I ordered a proper light.

[mythenjoseph]

Having a great Spring in Waterville/Sidney maine...Perrenial farm is getting out some beautiful plants to the vendors...we will surpass 40,000 this season I think....The snow cover has helped immensely and everything looks fantastic.

[greeneyes]

Sounds like good progress.

[greeneyes]

I didn’t know that you could leave them that long. Do they get hotter with age?

[greeneyes]

I still have some taters that I didn’t plant. I was afraid that it was too cold and wet for the next week or so. The Yukon Golds don’t take that long anyway, so I figure it’ll work out.

I can usually keep stuff going through November with row covers - sometimes well into December.

[greeneyes]

I have killed more plants with kindness than any other way. Benign neglect and even inadvertent maltreatment is often a surprise how well they survive.

[greeneyes]

Sounds great.

[tubebender]

I got my new computer yesterday and my wizard friend set it up and uploaded all my files and 32,635 photos so I hope to be posting some pictures in a couple of days. I planed 24 feet of Yukon Gold and 24 feet of Deseree taters yesterday plus I have one more variety to plant but I can’t remember the name. The spinach and radishes are all up and it looks like 90% of the corn in the greenhouse is up. (Yes, we start our corn in the greenhouse and transplant)

[Diana in Wisconsin]

I’ll be checking on my taters, today. We have some sweet corn up, already - Beau’s experiment to get corn by July 4th.

We’re mending fences and chopping and hauling wood, today. Planting two peach and an apple tree. Gotta run! :)