[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
Weekly Gardening Thread (Useful Links) Vol. 11, March 16, 2012
Weekly Gardening Thread -- Vol. 12, March 23, 2012
Weekly Gardening Thread -- Vol. 13, March 31, 2012
Weekly Gardening Thread (Happy Easter!) Vol. 14, April 6, 2012
Weekly Gardening Thread Vol. 15, April 13, 2012

[cherry]

if that is your property what a beautiful place...

in the NW we've had rain and temps haven't gotten up there yet....still cool....but this weekend we might hit 70....

question for whoever knows....can I plant potatoes in 5 gallon buckets?.....I've got a lot of buckets and I prefer to keep my garden beds for other things....thx in advance..

[JustaDumbBlonde]

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[JustaDumbBlonde]

I need prayers once again for my friend, Mark. You might remember that he broke his back in a fall from his deer stand last fall, and has beaten all the odds to recover almost good as new. Prayer always works!

This morning, Mark has undergone open heart surgery at Mayo in Rochester, Mn., to have a mitral valve replacement. He just got out of surgery and everything went fine, but I ask that anyone so inclined please pray for a full recovery.

Thank you with all of my heart!

[gorush]

Nothing unusual about this forsythia except that the picture was taken on March 20th in central Wisconsin. This winter makes up for "The year without a summer".(1816)

[rightly_dividing]

Good afternoon! You have a beautiful property there, and all the pictures and talk of bee keeping is making my wife want to start a bee keeping activity here.

[Red_Devil 232]

Nice slow steady rains in my area, NETX, a little thunder in the distance.

[gorush]

Do you know anything about “Bee Pods?” My wife is “suggesting” that I build a few.

[bgill]

Beautiful property!

Have fun with the bees. I love honey but someone else can harvest it. I don’t like bees and they don’t like me. Last time I was stung my foot swelled up the size of a watermelon.

[greeneyes]

We are having a rainy day today, so the indoor work will be at the top of the list.

We have planted raspberry bush, honey berry, goji berry, and re-potted some tomatoes. Work continues on perennial bed. I have pots of lavender, french tarragon, stevia, and rosemary in waiting to plant.

All the fruit trees, bushes, and Rosa rugosa are doing well. The grapes and kiwis are the only plants that got devestated by the recent frost.

Have a great weekend. God Bless.

[ApplegateRanch]

Broke out the unopened box with the “4 tier greenhouse” we bought at last fall’s garden close-out.

Oops! “instructions are just a picture & parts list. Oops! 4 out of 12 shelf supports are missing.

At least there’s an email & toll-free number.

Planting our onion starts (not sets) & couple of other odds & ends later today. Have some things starting in newspaper pots for transplanting end of May.

Asparagus came up , looking great, but frosted when clouds unexpectedly went away over night & temp dropped an extra 8-10 degrees. Can’t trust a 24 hour forecast, but 50-100 year predictions of “climate change” are absolutely trustworthy?

Follow up on the ‘replanted celery’: leafed out great, looked good, so potted it last week. The top continued to grow. Yesterday, it had started to wilt, so I checked it, and NO ROOTS! It seems it was just ‘living’ off of the nutrients in the base, which is now used up.

[NautiNurse]

Love your bees!

April check in from Florida...

Heavenly coconut scented plumeria


Itty bitty bunch grapes--will ripen in June


Too many baby avocados on the young tree

[hattend]

So, how do you find the Queen under that lump of bees in the top of a tree?

Or is that how you disperse a hive? Do you use some pheromone?

[pitviper68]

First time trying to post pics here, so, hopefully they show ok. This is my 4 y.o. bamboo patch. There are 5 different varieties of cold-hardy running bamboo, all of them phyllostachys types.

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[patton]

Can I pose, um, a reaaly dumb question?

Ah-hem. Should I plant the victory garden over the septic field, or not?

[Redleg Duke]

Greetings and farewell from southern New Hampshire, everyone. It has been fun, but Jim Robinson's decree and the response from all of the "Principled Conservatives" on this forum have convinced me that I need to go to a site where ideas and not just epithets are exchanged.

I have enjoyed following your gardening adventures and have learned much from all of you, but it is time to CSMO, so again, farewell!

[TASMANIANRED]

Totally Rad. Uber cool.

I gardened last year at the mini-farm.. mostly green beans and kale

Would have been more but the rabbits ate all my kole crops.

The remaining kale over wintered like a champ...had fresh greens all winter.

My main crop was rocks.

I sifted about a ton of earth last year and barely made a dent.

Yesterday, I had a single axle dump truck full of compost and top soil delivered.

Spent hours leveling it by hand..

It’s a wonder that I can move at all today.

I plan on expanding the garden as I have compostable product to make my own this year.

[TASMANIANRED]

Totally Rad. Uber cool.

I gardened last year at the mini-farm.. mostly green beans and kale

Would have been more but the rabbits ate all my kole crops.

The remaining kale over wintered like a champ...had fresh greens all winter.

My main crop was rocks.

I sifted about a ton of earth last year and barely made a dent.

Yesterday, I had a single axle dump truck full of compost and top soil delivered.

Spent hours leveling it by hand..

It’s a wonder that I can move at all today.

I plan on expanding the garden as I have compostable product to make my own this year.

[trisham]

Wonderful pics, JDB!

[JustaDumbBlonde]

[Melian]

Gorgeous photos!

It is so warm and balmy here in So Cal that I’m having a hard time keeping my mind on my work.

A while back, I posed a question about small, green, mostly round pellets I see scattered as fertilizer. It is not for hydration, but food. I can’t find out what it is, though I’ve searched high and low. I’m wondering if it is lawn fertilizer. If anyone has any ideas about what it is, let me know. Thanks! The mystery is really bugging me!