Jim Robinson
Posted on 02/17/2012 12:49:07 PM PST by Red_Devil 232
Good afternoon gardeners. I have been debating all day if I should post this week’s thread. And can’t help myself at this point. I do not like stepping on JADB’s ownership of the thread and I hope y’all and she understands.
As many of you know my wife and I are moving from Meridian, Ms to Marshall, Tx and I was not sure I would be able to keep on gardening at the house we are leasing. Peggy has received a written approval letter from the owner for us to put in a small garden. So I will be trying my best to get one started this spring. I have already started some Marion tomato, Jalapeno, and Pimento seeds that I saved from last seasons garden. I received my Jung’s catalog this past week and have been flipping through it.
We will make the final move March 6 – 8. She is using her vacation days that week for the move. We are moving ourselves, renting a 26’ Penske truck. We have used them in the past and they have given us great service and the trucks are top notch. Wow just as fuel prices are rocketing sky high, just our luck! I expect Diesel fuel to be at $4/gal, in our area, by then.
Good luck on all of your gardens!
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Ping to the list!
Glad to hear you’ll be getting to do a bit of gardening at the new place. I can’t imagine how difficult it is for you to leave all you have accomplished in your Mississippi garden.
It will be colder in Marshall than Central TX, but some people here in the San Antonio area are already planting their 602 and tycoon tomatoes...
An early “Welcome to the Lone Star State” at you.
We lived in the San Antonio area a few years ago, and loved it.
Marshall, awesome. We’ll be neighbors. You can come take care of my want-to-be garden.
With this nice weather here in the northeast, I’m just itching to get going on the garden. The long range forecast looks good so I got my lettuce and peas started indoors to put out ASAP.
Thanks Gabz! I learned a lot from your and gardengirl’s original Thread!
I hope that things are going good for you and the big move. It can really be nerve wracking to move. I hope that you have good luck selling your house
I got my soil analysis back and went to the local ext office yesterday for a sit down talk with the head of the master gardener program that translated all the technical talk to plain English for me and told me just the right amounts of stuff to add to my soil. The local office is just great to deal with, and near my home,too. My little plot had almost no nitrogen and the PH was way too low. It's a wonder that I was able to grow anything last year.
My seedlings are doing great. I have about 200 maters of four varities, about 20 red chilis, and the other peppers did not sprout. My plan is if they grow as well this year as they have in the past, I will supply all my friends with mater seedlings for their gardens.
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The good thing about Marshall versus SA is we get a lot more rain up here.
What kind of peas do you plant that you can start them indoors?
Yep! It is the middle of Feb. and it is 70° out right now! Strange winter! I hope AlGore stays wherever he has been hiding!
We settled our claim with USAA for the coop fire and plans are ongoing for a bigger, better one!
We ordered a Sears Craftsman GT5000 garden tractor with gear drive. It came in on Tuesday and the wheel weights and chains are in and I will pick them up on the way home.
I ordered a Johnny Bucket and Plow combo for the tractor. Barb and I have been wanting a small, frontend loader for a while and this will be just the right size for us.
Our new ducklings are thriving. They arrived a week ago this past Wednesday and are four or five times their original size. Barb has been handling them and they like being cuddled.
The bucket on the garden tractor is going to make gardening and poulty raising so much easier.
It is suppoed to be in the forties this long, holiday weekend, so I am hoping for a lot of progress on the deck roof and garage.
By the way I am not even going attempt to sell the house here in MS. I will have to make trips back here to maintain the place, it will be a fall back position in case TSHF. I have a good friend who has agreed to stop by the house every once in awhile just as a check and let me know if anything needs looking after.
Here on the north side of Conroe, rain has been plentiful for the last several months. It comes in 4in increments every few days.
Great news on your new coop and the new tractor!
Nice to hear from you Red. I almost forgot that it was Friday without the early morning Garden ping.
I received my Jungs catalog too — yesterday. But, I haven’t had a chance to look at it yet. It is snowing today, just as all the past snow is disappearing. I am almost healed from my fall on the ice THREE WEEKS ago. I can’t believe how crippled that made me.
I voted today because I have been transferred to a different polling station to wor at next week’s Primary. It’s only a Primary for the municipal elections here — no Presidential choices yet. I think we get those in April.
I went into the Municipal Clerk’s office today and had to show my picture ID. Yay! This is the first election where I have to do that. I’ve been waiting for more than 25 years to have to show ID in Wisconsin. It’s been a long, painful slog to get that through.
Because I haven’t been out much since my spill on the ice, today was the first time I’ve headed south from my house in weeks in the day time. I noticed that the farmers around here have plowed and smoothed their fields. They might even be planted already. I suspect winter wheat has gone in in my absence. The fields look so nice.
Nice to “see” you back!
Happy Friday Everyone
Question for all the experts - where’s the best place to get the last frost date for your area?
I’ve been all over the Internet and for my area, Zone 6b in Connecticut, the dates run from April first to May 30th.
Don’t want to start my seeds too early, but don’t want to end up behind, either.
Many thanks
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