The ‘Garden and Green Living Expo’ is this weekend, but I will not be attending.
After manning booths for both Jung’s and Seed Savers, I never want to step foot in there again, LOL! Man that was a LOT of work and WAY too many people to deal with at one time!
I’m gonna stay home and play in my own greenhouse, today.
I see they have a Photo Contest, now. Hmmm...I’ll have to consider that for the future!
Photo winners from 2025, here:
https://wigardenexpo.com/2025-photo-competition-gallery/
Mom! These would make some nice images for your puzzles! :)
Sweet! Thanks for the link!
Greetings on this 54 degree sunny day!
Re: crowded garden expo
Last weekend I went to Monona Terrace for the annual 2 day Orchid event.
It was very crowded.
Hard to view the judged orchid displays, and sale area.
It costs $10 per person to enter and $5 to park.
So we had $25 into going.
It was difficult to choose an orchid to buy with others swarming the sale area.
Might skip the whole thing next year.
Olbrich says on their website, that their month long Orchid event, now requires pre-registering for a time slot to get in to see the dome with all the orchids placed in it. Now I’m not going to that this year. Too much trouble. Went the previous 2 years.
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PBS expo....sent to my sister in Racine. Told her to share if she would not be going. (She won’t but she does have friends.)
My garlic and potato onions are poking up, my Japanese green multiplier onions too.
I have 2 good varieties of sweet potato.....Korean Gold and Caro Gold, both from Bakers Creek. I put dirt in in an old used dispan. I took the longest skinny roots for either and put them in the pan and splashed them with water. (The skinny ones, rather than the thick ones, are most likely to produce usable slips.) I will move it inside tomorrow by a heating vent and see what slips I get in a month for a Late April move outdoors! I think this year I will grow them in some woven nylon feed bags rather than in ground, or, maybe in some cloth grow bags. I had a lot of sweet potatoes last year, but Voles and mice damaged a most of them. It will also be easier to cut the runners and force them to focus on tuber size rather than producing hundreds of yard of vines. (And edible but not that tasty leaves.) It should also simplify harvesting to be able to dump them out of a bag rather than digging them up! Lots of Youtube videos from Thailand and vietnam of people doing this. I have the heat for this it should work well!
I will go out and sprinkle some lettuce and turnip seeds when it stops raining. I have a brief window of spring that works for cool season vegetables.
Nice picture of the Shenandoah valley in the Expo Picture winners! (Every other picture is of something or some place in Wisconsin!!)
Found 4 nice keepers for puzzles. Thanks. I am pretty picky.