[Gabz]

I'll post the answer to the perrenial vegetable question later in the thread. I'm happy to report that I got it right when I first read this when GG sent it to me!

[socialismisinsidious]

Not time for early planting here (sniff) but I’m forcing some Hyacinths and Paper-whites...they look lovely on my dining room table.

[Gabz]

Weekly Garden PING!!!!

Last week's thread

This is getting to be a pattern -- just like last week it is raining cats and dogs here. I should have posted yesterday when the sun was shining!!!!

[Red_Devil 232]

I ordered the fig trees I had mentioned in last weeks thread. Three different varities in 1 gal. size containers 2-3 ft. tall. They should be delivered early next week.

No experience at all with planting a fig tree so I will ask all who read this for any advice on location, hole size any thing that will give these trees a good start.

[Squantos]

We have strawberries as perennials and rhubarb as perennial vegetables .......parsnips, yellow squash, okra and beef steak tomatoes are my pet crop. We always have onions, potato’s and watermelon as well. My favorite part about gardening is to make it easy for all too do from age 6 to 66. Raised beds, easy irrigation, easy to tiller and weed. Protected from pests with physical barriers and plantings that the little critters just do not like !

Over the years we have collected tools that let us grind and compost some really good planting beds. We can or freeze enough to get us through winter .

[tubebender]

We have had almost 5 inches of rain in 5 days here around Humboldt Bay and our clay soil looks nasty. When I planted a large vegetable garden here this company was my guiding light as their seeds and plants are specific for the Maritime North West which includes British Columbia, the western portion of Washington, Oregon and a 150 mile strip of NW California.

I still buy a few things from them and my wife gets a lot of her flower seeds. She is into starting seeds of annuals in our greenhouse for our yard and our Church gardens. She still does about 1000 plants down from the 2500 she started for years..

http://www.territorialseed.com/ The catalog is about 165 pages. My wife goes through about 10 seed catalogs before ordering.

[Red_Devil 232]

When growing tomatoes outside do you just let them grow or do they need to be pruned?

[fanfan]

Could you add me to this ping list please Gabz?

[A knight without armor]

I just love asparagus. Especially creamed over toast. When I was in the 3rd - 5th grades we lived where there was a huge and old patch of it. That is the only time I’ve had so much I always had my fill. When it went to seed there would be a big area of tall soft fluffy stems. It is a very user friendly plant. I do not remember any pests or problems with it. We did nothing at all except harvest it. Before we moved there my mother and I would pick it wild growing along fence lines. This was extreme north west Illinois.

[mware]

Longing for the summer when my nephew can wander through his grandmom's garden.