Weekly Gardening Thread
Posted on 01/14/2011 5:00:44 AM PST by Red_Devil 232
Good morning gardeners. It is a cold 15 degrees here in Central Mississippi this morning and it is expected to rise to 50 this afternoon. It is expected to get up into the 60s early next week. No gardening for this Freeper for a while. I can’t wait for spring to get here!
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Weekly Gardening Thread
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I seem to have worked out a system that protects my plants during the bouts of subfreezing weather we seem to be getting a lot of this winter...
Still anxiously waiting for my seed catalogue from Diana’s company...:)
We have barely been able to get out of the house and today is the first day back to work for my wife. The whole city has been shut down with the snow and ice.
Waiting on seed catalogs.
I’d like to be on the list to remind me that someday spring will come for a few days anyway. Right now I have several inches of snow everywhere, the deer are digging thru it trying to find bites of grass to eat. It seems like it has been cold and lots of snow forever and it is still many months until spring.
Catalogues help, but far too few of the picture have a 4 or lwoer hardiness rating! Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
We’re experiencing one of the coldest and snowiest winters on record so far.
With no end in sight.
But I have my non-hybridized seeds that I can save sitting on the shelf waiting for spring to go in the ground.
Time to turn my compost piles. I may empty one and start another batch. It wasn’t quite done last weekend.
Wife mad a batch of cauliflower soup this week. That was some good stuff with a few crackers.
I may pull up the leaf lettuce patch and start another batch. I have one plant that is almost in seed.
I decided to do heirlooms this year. Any advice on how to save seeds? I’ve read that they only need to be dried, but one source claimed that tomato seeds have to ferment first. Any suggestions?
Good morning. Nothing of interest yet. Gotta go to work and issue pay checks. I’m still ducking questions about when my husband will be in again. Only one trusted employee knows.
Watching the snow fall up here in Upstate New York.
Right now the snow is covering up the garlic. In about another week or two I will have to start my tomato seeds - they take about ten weeks before they are ready for going outside, so I will start them at the end of this month.
I actually have winter peppers growing on both my habanero and my bhut jolokia, small but surprising to see anything at all since the thermostat is set to 68 degrees. I have a bunch of bhut jolokia seeds from last summer’s crop and will probably try to start germinating some next month. Last year I had 13 seeds and got 1 to sprout. That 1 is the provider of this year’s group of seeds and my first chance at a fully homegrown plant.
Next week is tomato planting time and I use my 12 gauge to plant the seeds in the garden.
Good idea... my neighbors would be unnerved until the explanation was clear....
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I’m thinking of “trying” sweet peppers again. I’ve tried the for 2 years but they never get large, they stay a little bigger than a golf ball. My hot peppers do great, and the banana shaped one do good, but sweet peppers never get as big as those in the market.
I got my Heirloom Seed catalog...oh my, what interesting things they have in there. Tomatoes like I’ve never seen before and other things like squash with warts. My!
Here is a good link on how to save tomato seeds (with pictures).
Saving Tomato Seeds - Seed Saving for Next Year's Tomato Crop
LOL. Do you pack some fertilizer in you shells along with the seeds?
Of course! What do you think I am, an ignorant barbarian?
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