[JustaDumbBlonde]

Previous weeks' threads:

Weekly Gardening Thread (Catalog Fever) Vol. 1 Jan 6, 2012
Weekly Gardening Thread (Seeds) Vol. 2, January 13, 2012
Weekly Gardening Thread Vol. 3, January 20, 2012
Weekly Gardening Thread (U.S. Hardiness Zones) Supplemental Vol. 1
Weekly Gardening Thread (Soil Types) Vol. 4, January 27, 2012
Weekly Gardening Thread (Vacation) Vol. 5, February 03, 2012
Weekly Gardening Thread (Vacation) Vol. 6, February 10, 2012
Weekly Gardening Thread (Vacation?) Vol. 7, February 17, 2012
Weekly Gardening Thread (Home Sweet Home) Vol. 8, February 24, 2012
Weekly Gardening Thread (Soil Structure Part 1) Vol. 9, March 2, 2012
Weekly Gardening Thread (Transplanting Tomatoes) Vol. 10, March 9, 2012

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Detailed State Plant Hardiness Zone Maps

Alabama	District of Columbia	Kentucky	Montana	Ohio	Texas ( East )
Alaska	Florida	Louisiana	Nebraska	Oklahoma	Texas ( West )
Arizona	Georgia	Maine	Nevada	Oregon	Utah
Arkansas	Hawaii	Maryland	New Hampshire	Pennsylvania	Vermont
California ( Northern )	Idaho	Massachusetts	New Jersey	Puerto Rico	Virginia
California ( Southern )	Illinois	Michigan	New Mexico	Rhode Island	Washington
Colorado	Indiana	Minnesota	New York	South Carolina	West Virginia
Connecticut	Iowa	Mississippi	North Carolina	South Dakota	Wisconsin
Delaware	Kansas	Missouri	North Dakota	Tennessee	Wyoming

International Plant Hardiness Zone Maps
Australia
Canada
China
Europe
Japan

[rightly_dividing]

Good morning and thanks for the links.

[Jemian]

Thank you for this thread. Ahhh, the wonders of a garden! Temps >70F and the azaleas and dogwoods are blooming. Base of operations is outside and I am freeping in my hammock. Love warm weather.

Make an Easter Garden! I just came across this this week.

[MrB]

I figured out how to reimburse someone for mailing me the mimosa seeds I’m looking for -

I’ll donate $5 to FR!

Anyone that can come up with about 20-30 of them, let me know.

[ConorMacNessa]

Good morning! We're having unseasonably warm weather in Central Maryland. Several days ago, all of my Ice Follies daffodils erupted into bloom at the same time. My roses are in leaf and it looks like a good season thus far.



Nos genuflectitur ad non princeps sed Princeps Pacem!

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

[metmom]

What a great idea to post links to previous threads.

[colinhester]

Please add me to list. Planting garden this year for the first time in my life. Could use all the help I can get......Colin

[tubebender]

I’m sure glad I planted a cover crop last fall because our rain has returned and is hell bent on making up the 9” deficit we have built up when it should have been here. Cover crops are a must in the rainy Pacific North West. Our local paper had a article from the AP on composting yesterday and I’ll post if I find it.

I went over to our Church and changed the oil in the little pavement sweeper yesterday but I had to make some changes to drain the old oil so it doesn’t run all over the motor mount and floor.

[Tatze]

[Arrowhead1952]

I bought two heat wave and two hot spell tomato plants yesterday and put them in the garden. I have about 24 other seedlings that will be in the ground by next weekend.

Cucumber seedlings are almost ready to transplant. Lettuce and spinach are doing great with the temps. Onions are growing well too.

[timeflies]

I love wisteria. Last year I planted two seeds in flower pots from a wisteria bush that my sister gave me. They are almost two feet high now. I’ll be putting them in the ground soon. I don’t expect blooms this year. We don’t have springtime here. As far as I’m concerned it’s summer and hot already.

[JPII Be Not Afraid]

I was excited to see we have a gardening thread. This will be my second year gardening and all ready can't wait. We started building our little greenhouse yesterday. It should be finished tomorrow. Today I am figuring out how to make my own pots out of newspapers. We'll see how that goes. Here's a pic of the uncompleted greenhouse, next week I'll post pics of the finished product.

[JustaDumbBlonde]

I’ve got to run for a couple of hours ... 3 shipments of woodenware for my beeyard that needs to be painted. All of my hives are making honey already, when they should really just be starting to come out of overwintering.

[Petruchio]

Today’s task - start seeds.

This is about 5 weeks early, but when I see nothing but 70’s for the next 2 weeks I’m goin’ for it!

[Red_Devil 232]

Went to the Harrison County Extension Agent's office this past week and picked up the paper work and sample bag for a soil sample test and mailed it off. The Agent invited me back for a sit down and explanation of the results and recommendations for what I need to do for my soil when I get the test back. There were a number of levels of testing and costs. the first level tests pH, p-n-p, sulfur, calcium and a few others for $10. The next level ads Iron, Magnesium and a few others into the mix for a total of $14. I opted for the second level. I figured why not know everything essential to make a healthy optimal soil for my veggies. I also got my truck and me legal to drive in Texas - Tags, Safety Inspection and a new Tx Drivers License. What a chore - I hate dealing with the people running those places. I know they have a job to do. For my divers lic. I had to have my current out of state Drivers Lic. social security card,

certified birth cert. (which I can produce - same day within minuets), proof of insurance and proof of Texas residence. I had to raise my right hand and swear I was the person represented by these documents.

[tubebender]

Here is that article on composting that I read last night. Nothing too unusual except I have never heard of using Soy Bean Meal for a nitrogen element...

Lee Reich

[greeneyes]

Thanks for the links. I have been really busy with spring cleaning, thanks to the early record-breaking warm weather here in Missouri, but I also managed to get a few tomato seeds started.

So far I have Arkansas traveler, mortgage lifter, Kimberly, and some hybrids. I have ordered some packets of heirloom seeds from wintersown. You get 10 packets for a $5.00 donation and SASE. That order includes some Cherokee Purple.

Still chowing down on the lettuce from the winter garden, but the spinach is all gone will need to replant.

Have a great weekend. God Bless.

[Augie]

We had some beautiful weather in Central Missouri this weekend. It rained yesterday morning, then the sun came out. Was sunny this morning, partly cloudy in the afternoon, but no rain.

Got my tomato beds ready for planting today, sowed lettuce and radishes, and a row of snap peas.

The peach trees are almost done blooming. Might get lucky this time...

[Ladysforest]

We are UNNATURALLY warm here in upstate NY. It’s not uncommon for this weather for a couple of days here and there - but for nearly two weeks it’s almost unnerving, LOL.

I was out trying to clean up the garden prior to prepping for planting, and saw that our onions and garlic are going nuts! Hubby put them in fall 2010, and we got nuthin’ out of them at harvest. He left them in, and with this mild winter, and super warm spring - they are taking off! Spreading out all over. Problem is that they are where we had planned to put the tomatoes this year, and they are spreading into the walking paths.

We have to rethink the tomato bed, and decide on the fate of the stragglers, but we are looking to have enough garlic to support my husbands enormous garlic habit. There are times (several times a week in fact) that I can’t even enter the kitchen because the garlic fumes sting my eyes so badly.

Going to take a risk and put in mixed lettuce, spinach, and snow peas this week. Those should be OK even if we have sharp drops in temp. And we almost certainly will.