Hoping we dry out this weekend. I have transplanted some plants to larger pots, and taken them outside until the ground is ready for transplanting.
Lemon tree is beginning to form tiny lemons. Some are still blooming and smelling good. It's still in the green house. May move it out soon. Heat is really getting up there in Green house.
Hope all is going well with everyone. Prayers up for all. God Bless.
Pinging the List. Really busy tonight. Wanted to get this started. I’ll be back later.
Everyone should check out the “Love Your Garden” series. A British show. You can find it on Netflix and YouTube.
But I’m not ready to post???
*BUMP* for morning coffee...
Moved my tomato (cherry) and Sweet Million tomato starter plants outside - this time under the deck bench to protect them from the Sun until they mature.
There are jalapeno pepper, Serrano pepper, and Sweet Snacking pepper plants, also under the bench for the same reason.
My Two/three Bush Early Girl plants look like they’re not going to make it - I might trade them - we’ll see.
Other than that, my 62+ onion plants seem to be going strong - gonna have to give some away I think. 18 watermelon seeds/plants in the lower bed along with 6 yellow squash plants (din’t intend to put them there but have to for now).
So, we’ll see. Sent ya FReepmail.
I have so much to do in the garden, and as luck would have it, my repetitive stress injuries in my arms are really acting up. So I have to sit with ice and heat on my arms and look out the window and see all the weeds growing so well :-(
Hope everyone else is able to enjoy gardening! I guess I get to live vicariously for now. But if I don’t get my seeds in the ground soon…
I thought it would never happen...but it is finally Spring in New England...and for some reason, the flowering trees are especially gorgeous this year.
Greetings from southern New Hampshire, where garden prep is in full swing. I opened up our RV for the summer, last week, and Barb is up there while I am busting hump here, getting the raised bed gardens ready for her to plant.
I used the small tiller on the raised beds, yesterday, and today, I will be cutting the furrows for the watering lines as well as tilling the walkways before I install pipes, electrical lines and then level and put down landscape fabric. Coarse bark mulch on top of that. I am also bringing up her plants from the basement to start the hardening off process. Of course it is cool and going to rain, today.
My hibiscus are starting to sprout and my lilacs are blooming. Always a favorite for my wonderful Wisconsin childhood memories!
We got a large, rattan/wicker couch at the local consignment gallery. I spray painted it, yesterday, and I will take it to the trailer for our screen room, tomorrow, our 7th Wedding Anniversary. Home in the evening. Too much to do, here.
Have robber bees at our hives. Our new packages will be coming in a week. Ducks and chickens starting to lay.
By the way, have you all heard about the blight in Carpinteria, CA? My brother-in-law and best friend have lived there for years in a beautiful house overlooking Highway 101 and the Pacific Ocean. It used to be a thriving cut-flower producer, shipping all over the world. I read on line and he confirmed it that since pot was legalized there in California, many of the cut-flower greenhouses have been bought up by pot farmers and the stench is terrible. My buddy says it smells like skunk, particularly in the evening!
More unintended consequences of liberalism.
FINALLY, the garden is started. Planted Summer Squash, Zucchini and Spaghetti Squash on Friday. Monday is Lettuce and Tomatoes. Broccoli, Carrots, Leeks, Green Beans to follow.
My beautiful garden has been destroyed. I live in Hawaii and was located in the Leilani Estates area that has been in the news. A volcanic eruption has forced my wife and I to leave the area. Please pray for us.
We got a very late start to spring here in NYS.
Had snow the last Sunday of April and by Tues it was in the 80’s.
It’s been pretty nice since then and the long range forecast is pretty good but I’m still not putting anything in the ground quite yet. You just can’t trust the weather here in CNY.
But a friend started my tomatoes in their mini-greenhouse and they are HUGE. I’m hardening them off now and they’ll be ready to put in the ground by the last frost date.
I’m praying for a good crop this year. The last several years were awful.
Joe Bastardi from Weather Bell predicted a very late spring and quick start to summer, and by gosh, he was right. He is also forecasting a hot dry summer.
I say *Bring it on!* After this winter, it will be a real treat to have it sunny and warm at the same time.
Would you believe .... we had a snake in the house in the early hours of today? I was up late (after midnight) trying to finish a Kindle book - also had the TV on (Bronx Zoo - love that program). As I looked up at the TV, movement on the floor to my left caught my eye - it was a snake headed away from my feet/chair where I was sitting & going for cover under the piano. Yikes!!! To make a long story short, we got extremely lucky - the snake got behind the piano (instead of under it) & partially up on the molding in the corner. As much as I wanted to catch/release, it wasn’t possible due to the position it was in & we HAD to get it out of the house. The snake ended up dead & removed. It was a small hognose, about 15” long - hognoses are such cool snakes - really bugs me we had to terminate it. No idea how it got into the house - foundation is secure as are all the access doors to under the house. It might have gotten in off of the back deck since the back storm door doesn’t close all the way sometimes, but the deck is about 4 feet off of ground level. First snake we’ve had in the house in 40 years, but I guess there’s always a first time! Getting to sleep last night was not easy. Whew.
Does anyone know why instructions for planting squash seem to always say to plant it in mounds?
Seems to me that the only effect of that is to make it hard to deep-water them; the water runs off the mound.
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