Posted on 01/09/2021 6:55:59 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
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I *think* I’ve ordered all the seeds I’ll be ordering this year. I may change my mind later.
The companies I’ve ordered from so far are: Cultivariable, Adaptive Seeds, The Experimental Farm Network, True Leaf Market, Seedwise, and Strictly Medicinal.
There were some things I wanted to order from Baker Creek, but they still show “out of stock”.
I also have seeds coming to me from a couple different breeders who I’ve connected with through various forums.
This, on top of my existing stash. I may be crazy, but I’ll never lack things to plant :)
Yesterday I pulled out the graphing paper and started working on possible layouts. I’m trying to make it easier to do things by machine this year. We’ll see how that goes.
I just am going to think warm thoughts today and look at placing a seed order. Tell me again why we live in Wisconsin? Can you imagine living someplace where you can garden year round?
We have a coyote the size of a collie (or close to it), running around our place. I don’t want to meet him in the garden or anywhere else, for that matter. Then again, lions are 100% more likely to consider you dinner - coyotes, not so much (the big one was chasing a deer). I am concerned about our old, mostly deaf/blind bird dog ... he’d be easy pickings - we try to keep an eye on him, but he likes to sneak off to the woods (his nose is still works at an ‘awesome’ level).
Recipes fit nicely into “anything goes.”
please put me back on your ping list. I’ve been inactive for years, and now am back and would like your weekly thread. I am a master gardener with a small landscape business.
Greetings from the Atlanta area, where my daffodils are pushing up through the soil. A bit early, yes. Now is the time to plant for winter color.
We lived in Epping for 14 years. I started growing Habanero peppers, which at the time were the hottest in the world, just to see if I could. That got me hooked on Chillies and I’ve been growing them ever since. I have seeds started now for my new 2021 plants plus the ones that overwinter. Unlike New Hampshire it never gets cold enough here to damage the plants so they just slow down in Winter and pick up again in the Spring.
Sounds like fun when you’re not too old and in shape. Wouldn’t try it nowadays; afraid they’d have to call in a rescue team of firefighters, lol!
We keep a close eye on our old dog around here as well. Coyotes aplenty and mountain lions spotted once in a while hereabouts too, though never by me. I wouldn’t want to shoot either of them, but wouldn’t hesitate to to save our pup.
Can you imagine gardening in some parts of Africa? You might have to keep your head on a swivel for things that weren’t necessarily after the tomatoes.
The poisonous snakes (mambas, cobras, vipers) in Africa give me the heebie jeebies, too. Around here, we just have Copperheads (Timber Rattlers in the mountains about 2 hours away - see plenty of them hiking; water moccasins 2-3 hours east)). So far, no Coppers in the garden, but we do have a lot of Black Widow Spiders. I don’t pick anything up with my bare hands (boards, pots, buckets, etc.). I’ll take a hoe, rake or something like that to turn over first what I’m picking up. I have an old trash can I use to store water for the sun to heat up - had to move it about 3 weeks ago & was careful with the lid (leather gloves, for one thing) & sure enough, there was a big fat Black Widow under the edge, guarding her very large egg case.
My folks retired to Las Cruces, NM in the 70s. Really got hooked on Chilies. They have both passed on, and in 2019, my sister sold their home and relocated to Puxsytawney, PA. We grow chilies, here.
By the way, if our ducks are any indicators, it may be an early spring. Last week, we got our first egg. Yesterday, it was three. This morning, six. We have 28 ducks, including the horny and aggressive drakes and I think that egg production will be up, this year. We need to find a market for them.
I am in the SW corner of Wisconsin. And I have lived in CA where I COULD garden all year round and it got tiresome, LOL! As a Wisconsin Girl, I NEED all Four Seasons and some down time.
72 and sunny, every day in Imperial Beach, CA. Next town? Tijuana, MX!
It rained ONCE in the 2 years I lived there. In the winter months I was still wearing shorts and flip-flops and people were wearing winter coats and hats and mittens!
Weirdos. ;)
Well, I was considering your needs. ;)
Those steps are amazing! I can’t imagine climbing them with a full load of fish on my back!
And I complain about my basic life of luxury...
You’re in! :)
Thanks, Sis....oops....that’s a no-no———gender specific.
LOL!
Welcome! What zone are you in?
7B, and you?
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