We got the Baker's creek seeds in this week. Hubby has started some of his. I'll be starting celery this next week. Trying a pink celery that is supposed to be easier to grow.
Lemon tree has a few pea sized fruits. Has dropped a lot of leaves - not unusual. Tomato plant has 4 orange cherry size tomatoes, so nearly ripe.
This is a holiday weekend. No school on Friday due to teacher conference and Mon. is day off for President's day. Hope all is well with you and yours.
Prayers up for all. God Bless.
pinging the list.
Three verieties of pepper seeds started yesterday (Feb 15.)
Now in our little hot house with 70 degrees and 80 percent humidity.
I know this might seem early but our experience is that peppers take two weeks longer to sprout vs. tomatoes and cucombers, etc.
Six inches of snow on the ground. A bit of warmth today melted some but another dose is in the forecast tonight into Sunday, 17th.
Wife and I were contimplating the shoveling of our long downhill driveway when our next door neighbor came down the hill on his tractor and bladed it open. Now, THAT’s a good neighbor !
Hi Everybody!
(((HUGS))))
Freezing rain followed by a crisp, moonlit, cold night.
I had better watch my step tomorrow! :-)
Already got ‘itchy fingers’ of course.
Gonna try to use my “low mass” greenhouse (look it up- it’s great for Winter comfort!) for starting plants this year.
Starting off with reliable Romaine.
Low mass greenhouses get crazy hot when the sun is shining but cool down to ambient at night. (You let the heat in the house through window when warm and close window at night).
But will add a bunch of concrete blocks and water when temps are mostly in the 50s and above (by end of Feb here).
Hoping it works... and will work for less tough plants. It’s an experiment...
Welcome to the sunny south – Montgomery, Alabama. It was 72° today. The daffodils are in full bloom as are the Japanese tulip trees. I’m starting to see leaves on the Oakleaf hydrangeas in Chinese butterfly bushes. I put out weed killer and fertilizer today for the grass, and will be putting my dahlias tomorrow for later transfer outside after April 4. The big mess will be like to live oaks, which is starting to shed their leaves. That will be six weeks of blowing and mulching.
Greetings from southern New Hampshire, which is apparently next to Frostbite Falls, MN! My cucumber seeds arrived from Parks Seed, and are saffely stashed where I won’t be able to find them, come spring!
I need to start work on the cold frame for one of our larger, raised beds in “Barb’s” garden area. It will use up some plywood scraps as well as give hope for spring.
At least, my pellet stove is keeping my shop toasty warm.
Snow! Snow! Snow! Then a thaw which means ice everywhere and then howling winds an more SNOW. Just a general PITA winter season, here!
But - we’ve had very easy winters the past 3 or 4, so we were due. I have FB postings from February 2017 and 2018 with no snow on the ground and the dogs lounging on the sunny front porch!
I’ve got my seeds ordered and most of them in hand already, though I don’t need to start anything until Early March...which is only 2 weeks away. Yay! :)
I ordered from Jung’s (of course) and Totally Tomatoes (also owned by Jung’s) and Botanical Interests and Burpee. I can easily get some of the basics for my porch pots, and herbs at my local Walmart. They sell Bonnie-Brand started veggie plants & herbs.
I’ll also make a trek to see my friend Steve at Cushman’s Greenhouse in Belmont, WI - I used to order all of my Poinsettia from him for my Jung Garden Center; he’s got an awesome spring set up - LOTS of Eye Candy, for sure. :)
Upcoming projects are adding 4 more raised growing beds (bringing my total to 18!) and then two beds on the south and west sides of the new greenhouse; one dedicated to Roses and one dedicated to Perennial Herbs. The greenhouse area had to be filled in, elevated and leveled, so that leaves those two sides with too-steep-to-mow areas and terraced beds there will solve that problem and give me more growing space.
Happy, Happy! :)
We found a buyer for some old barn wood that we have; it’s going to a gal in a local town who will use it as a wall feature/paneling in her new shop that is opening in March, so one more pile OUT of the barn that we’ll be tearing down in the future & rebuilding.
Other than that, everyone that I love (people & pets!) is healthy and happy, though Beau did lose his 89 year old Dad this past month. (Not unexpected.) Nice memorial service; he was a Korean War Vet, so we had the whole 21 Gun Salute and American Flag presentation ceremony. It was very moving.
We’ll be planting a memorial tree on The Family Farm come Spring. :)
We’re starting over along this stretch of north Florida gulf coast slammed by Hurricane Michael last October.
All of the mature longleaf pine trees that filtered the sun for my many azaleas were either snapped off or are dead and will fall over soon.
Beautiful zoysia lawn, camellias, all destroyed by salt water.
The entire area is a botanical desert.
/whining.
More snow and ice here in Central Missouri over the weekend.
Nothing going on in the garden aside from waiting on the weather to improve.