[Diana in Wisconsin]

[ansel12]

I planted some lack of interest plants, some bell peppers, squash, and basic tomatoes of early girl and celebrity, no heirloom tomatoes, nothing of special interest, I’m not obsessing with getting the most out of them, I’ll water them and just see what ordinary produce will come out of it.

My something to do but not getting into it planting.

[metmom]

This seemed like a good place to put this.....

He created a hummingbird paradise in his backyard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g02Ss3xgABc

We’re getting off to a VERY early start to our growing season. The weather have been gorgeous and I have in the first planting of lettuce, the snow peas, potatoes, and am currently prepping the beds and putting in onion seedlings and sets. The onion seedlings I’m putting in are the Milano DiRossa and I have a lot of them. They seem fragile to transplant but they’re all taking beautifully.

The carrots and scallions are coming up and I’m trying shallots this year.

Got lots of other stuff started, more lettuce, some tomatoes, a bunch of rosemary and lavender, and bought some Lady Bells to try those again. I also bought the bushiest rosemary I could find and took cutting to root for new plants, so now I have 7 more coming up. I’ve had far better success rooting rosemary cuttings than starting them from seed.

Beans and zucchini will be going in later.

We’re also out of our dry spell. The pond is full again, and the garden is doing great. Perfect amounts of rain at the right times.

[daniel1212]

Thanks for the ping to this months new thread. As a chronicle, here are links to posts made on 5-1 to last months:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4308122/posts?page=740#740
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4308122/posts?page=741#741
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4308122/posts?page=742#742
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4308122/posts?page=743#743

[Bob434]

Cool painting.

[Pollard]

Reminds me of the cattle feed trailer in a field on my way to work. It would be a generic thing and boring thing except for the fact that they painted their farm name on it in a red retro script lettering, slightly faded now, and that makes the view a view. I hate that so many have let the old cool looking barns collapse and replaced them with metal warehouse looking buildings. A little hunk of industrial rectangle sitting in the rolling hill country. blek

Just got a few maters and peppers in the ground and now we’re going down to the mid 40s for lows over the weekend. Not much wind though for a change so I guess I guess I’ll go make some stout row cover hoops out of cattle panel wire which is more like 1/4 round stock than wire. Tried making some out of high tensile electric fence
wire but its too flexible.

Need some row cover hoops for the tunnel anyway. If I’d have had them this past Winter, I might have had more than just those three lettuce plants overwinter.

[Liz]

Honey Glazed Roasted Rosemary Carrots
Tender, roasted carrots drizzled w/ sweet honey glaze; delicious dish will be your go-to side.

Ing 1 lb carrots 3 tbl ol/oil 2 tbl ea fresh rosemary, honey

Instructions Toss peeled carrots, oil, add dash s/p. Place in baking dish, sprinkle w/ chp fresh rosemary leaves. Roast 375 deg 30 min, then drizzle w/ honey. Toss well, then roast fork tender 20 min.

[Hot Tabasco]

I recently ordered some tomato and cucumber seeds from a company called Gurneys. They charged me $10.99 for shipping and handling and mailed the seeds in a typical manila envelope with a $1.77 stamp on it.....What a rip off!

It took two weeks to arrive here in Michigan, mailed from Indiana. I finally got fed up waiting and went to the local nursery and bought plants already growing in pots.