Jim Robinson
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Oh yes. I got my new front windows in last week while I was laid up with my strained ligaments (both knees). They look so great — it’s been a long time coming. 2 big windows and a new front door in my 50 year old house. 25 years waiting for that. The windows are so pretty that I’m not even going to cover them with curtains — just folding shades that can be taken up entirely out of the way.
The carpenter who put them in is a genius at restyling the the headers, and there will be very little maintenance. I have one window left to fix in the front and about 6 in the back and every window in this house will have been replaced.
I need help!
Husband gave me red cut roses for Valentines. They are ready for the compost pile. When I took them out of the vase I saw that they are sprouting short stems and leaves!
But, there are no roots. Does anyone know how to keep these alive until they root?
I have some tomato plants just coming up to plant in the garden. I picked fresh spinach yesterday and we will eat it for dinner tonight.
I tilled part of my garden yesterday. I still have fall veggies that are producing. Lettuce is going crazy. Onion sets are doing great.
Looks like one of the neighbors will be getting a pineapple this year. Plant has been there since I moved in. Haven't seen a pineapple on it in several years. I was wondering if this one was due to our mild "winter" this year. Got curious, found a doc from FL University, read until I realized that I just didn't care. Pineapple is disgusting.
Jalapenos grow beautifully! Best Wishes in your new home.
This morning I got up early and freshened up a corner of my garden for four rows of cabbage, brocolli, and onions. Got it all in. Tomorrow I’ll plant spinach and beets. Central piedmont area of NC.