I have 4 olive size tomatoes and some flowers growing. Basil is needing to be harvested and cut back. Lemons are pingpong ball size and growing. Still have some blooms making the room smell great.
Have had a sinus infection, and fever this week, and haven't been on line. I will try to backtrack on the threads and answer any questions I didn't get to yet.
Hope everyone is doing well. Have a great weekend-stay warm and safe. God Bless.
Pinging the list.
Missourian transplanted to Kansas. I have just started tomatoes, broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower and flowers. I have a heated greenhouse to place these plants. This is my first year of trying this.
Pinging Godzilla. I just saw your request. You’ve been added to the list.
I’m starting hydroponics this year. I’ve hand made much of the containers and reservoirs over the winter. It is alot cheaper to make the containers and reservoirs yourself. The pumps, aerators and hoses and misters you have to buy yourself.
The hydroponic containers I’ve made revolve around 5in x 5in blank plastic fence post with end caps. Drill a 4in hole every 12in, or smaller for if you’re doing herbs and baby stuff. Run a 1/4in pvc hose inside with 1/16dia hole matching the 5in hole you’ve made and plug the end. Setup at a slight incline with the lower end poking into your reservoirs and everything runs back into the reservoir.
The larger stuff goes in 5g Lowes buckets that I have setup like a dutch pot system. PVC drain pipe 2in from the bottom from bucket to bucket to reservoir and 360degree sprinkler misters on the top.
Next order of business that I’ll do over the summer is use my Arduino and modules (very small computer) and build a setup to monitor temperature, ppm, and control watering cycles. Automating the PH and the Liquid nutrients to the water is very doable, but not this year, it’s pretty expensive for the PH probes and they don’t last long.
Going to grow Cilantro and Flat Leaf Parsley to make Chimichuro over the summer, For the winter it’s baby Bok Choi and baby spinach, then the summer standards ... Heirloom tomatoes, Zuchinni and a never ending box of loose leaf lettuce.
It’s all about the dirt.
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The rebel, outside, sitting on the new tobacco plot. Imagine 50 or 60 of those on 2 foot centers. ;)
Shovel shown for scale.
As the bottom leaves get damaged since it's in the house, those have been getting cut off, and hung up to dry.
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The cucumbers I transplanted, look perkier today as they looked flat yesterday, but they aren't as great looking as they were before transplanting in their final containers.
Looked at the Egyptian Walking Onions a bit ago and they are standing straight up and looking strong. Darn, that reminds me I have 80 onions bulbs to plant and I'll use some of the black two gallon pots for that. I can't plant 80 bulbs but the price was so good I bought them anyway - $1.68 for 80 bulbs! I'll get as many as I can planted tomorrow. If all my onions produce, I guess I need to can onions - anyone canned straight onions with nothing else in the jar? Hmm, pickled onions?
The other types of onions transplanted into their final pots look good and the tomatoes look good. The blackberry sticks are growing limbs/leaves fast. The strawberries are growing parts to be flowers. Every plant out there says it is spring. Still have smaller plants in greenhouse that are not grown enough to put in big pots.
Have 21 Dixie cups with seeds in them under the grow lamp. I think I need MORE large pots, at least more 2 gallon ones. I have more types of tomatoes under the grow lamp and they will take up most of the big pots I still have empty.
I'll have fingerling potatoes coming about the middle of March.
I had a stir fry today made from veggies I cut up yesterday with the Mandoline.
I am sorry about your sinus infection. Dry, cold air is hard on them. I am filling small pots of water and putting them on every heat register, and still having problems. The fever may be from the infection. I have a recipe for nose spray that helps, though, when winters are extra cold, I still stay at borderline infections. I will post the recipe, if you would like. Do know- I am not a doctor, nor play one on TV. (grin) Oh... A mist humidifier helps a little.
My seeds are waiting. Planner mapped out. Snow and frozen ground have me instead getting ready to dye a few tubs of wool and lockerhook some area rugs. Meat is on sale, I will be making and pressure-canning some meatballs. I do not do boredom very well.
We are adding chickens, and maybe ducks. A win-win venture and will not break our budget. Meat and eggs, free manure and they love bugs.
Sorry to hear of your sinus infection. They can get pretty nasty.
I harvested my Meyers lemon the other day. It took almost a year to ripen. Most of last season, I thought it might be a lime. Long story on this plant. I killed it 4 years ago, and refused to give up. Then it sprouted new growth from the rootstock 3 years ago, and budded this lemon last year.
I could probably waited another month, but got antsy and picked it when I saw yellow everywhere on it. We haven’t yet made a couple of glasses of lemonade yet.
Been too cold to plant here in Texas this week, but onions and other bulb plants are doing OK. Hope to get something into the dirt this week.
Hope you get well soon.
Prayers for your rapid healing and comfort from that sinus infection!
(((HUGS)))
Meteorologist said that is 50F below normal for March first!
First 4 peach seedlings emerged yesterday. 
Cats have just about finished demolishing their cat grass, but what's left is still green; longest it's ever lasted for us. The experiment seems to be a success, and I'll continue to plant it in deeper containers for them.
Got the last of the seeds we ordered, though of course not the potato & sweet potato sets.
I also accidentally found my missing barley, spring wheat, and lentil seeds that I put in a "safe" location 2 years ago. Guess it wasn't safe enough, or I wouldn't have stumbled on them today. *<];-')
Had to split some of next winter's wood yesterday, as we were down to our last week's worth of split & stacked firewood. Had to bust a trail through 10-12" of frozen snow to get the truck to the piles; that took almost as much time as it did to load the billets. It was a balmy 38, and sunny, and calm, so not too bad at all for working outside.
This is one of our old apple trees; its at the SE corner of the main barn.
Anna Apple: 
Almond tree 
Methley Plum 
Harvester Peach 
Bruce Plum 
Native Texas Peach; This tree produces fruit that are the size of a 50¢ piece, but they are so sweet! Unfortunately, squirrels like the fruit also 
As you notice, we have cages around everything. The Texas Hill Country is overpopulated with deer, and they will destroy a tree. We found this out last year when we planted a pear tree. 90 minutes later, we found the tree's cage tipped over, and all leaves were stripped from the tree.
Tended the potted critters today. The sprouted store onion is GROWING like TOPSY! I have a sprouted grocery store irish potato that I hope to get into dirt after the upcoming blizzard. The sprouted sweet potatoes also seem very happy.
I stumbled across this web site that I thought other newbies like me would like to have:
http://www.almanac.com/content/frost-chart-united-states/zipcode/76041
It is the FIRST AND LAST FROST DATES for your area. Just enter your zipcode!
Based on this date that this site gives, counting how far back before my last spring frost date should I start my seedlings?
I have a rhubarb plant that went to seed last year... anybody ever germinate and start rhubarb seeds? Is it a good cool weather starter?
My plants themselves are already all starting to send out shoots...