[Diana in Wisconsin]

[kvanbrunt2]

Green house heater is on. 33 outside 60 inside. Sunny day. I have tomatoes plants started, lettuce, celery, and lots of perennial flowers started. The annuals from two years ago are still doing good. 4 Lemons and the limes are producing fruit this year. I plan to start a bunch more including some cold weather, broccoli, cabbage, etc.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

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Good Morning!

(((HUGS)))

[Chunga85]

It’s early to get started where I’m at but I want to see what I can do to prevent/minimize the amount of blight type of things that effect mostly tomatoes and cucumbers. If anybody had any ideas that help I’d love to hear it.

Raised beds have advantages but one of the drawbacks I see is a tendency for these things to build up. We can only rotate crops so much.

[Qiviut]

Our 50-something degree days this past week have ended. This coming week is going to be colder and on Thursday, the word is we’ll either have a big snow storm .... or a “miss”. I vote for the “miss”!

Walked around the garden last night - the only thing growing is my rosemary bush - very green & looks great. I hope the cold doesn’t get it. I can’t walk by it without rubbing my hand up one of the branches to get the smell - it’s a favorite.

My little great-nieces drew their garden plans up the other day. Their mom is giving each of them a little piece of the big garden for their very own spot. One plan had actual rows/plants on it, the other was just a scribble - when you’re just over two yo, rows/plants aren’t quite happening yet. :-) The Dollar store has some seeds - 4/$1. There aren’t many seeds in the packs, but I think I’ll send each of them a couple of packs of flowers (I saw zinnia seeds) for their garden spots. Being young, they’ll like getting something in the mail and will have some seeds on hand for planting when the weather breaks. At that age, life is so ‘simple’.

[mrs. a]

New year new seed catalogs! I ordered some Dill’s Atlantic Giant pumpkin seeds. I’m going to try to grow a 100+ pound pumpkin this year. Why?

Why not?

[sauropod]

Bkmk

[LibWhacker]

Passion Fruit Flower. Click here => for More Passion Fruit Flowers

Orchid

Hi, gardeners! Sorry, probably old hat for a lot of you, but I don't have many pics on this desktop... About that passion fruit - someone said no two are alike and, in fact, no two pedals, stems, or anything else on ONE flower are alike. Is that true? Pretty amazing.

Stonehenge before it was rebuilt in 1901

[TianaHighrider]

Thank you Diana!

[Ladysforest]

Hi Diana - can I be added back to the Garden Thread list please?

[Pollard]

Bought $55 worth of seeds a couple of days ago from Baker Creek aka rareseeds.com

[daniel1212]

I think these links may be a good addition to the thread, more so in Sept. though:

Winter Kill Temperatures of Cold-Hardy Vegetables 19 Frost Hardy Vegetables to Plant this Fall

Edible Perennial Gardening: plant these 70+ edibles once and harvest for years

[Augie]

Another week of January in Central Missouri. We got some snow, then it warmed up and the snow melted. Now it's raining. Hopefully it will turn back cold and freeze things for a few more weeks.

But, with the ground thawed, a window opened for the removal of a couple orchard trees that were sick. This nectarine did really well for a few years then something happened that caused the fruit to spoil before it ripened.

I spent some quality time with the chainsaw on Saturday. It wasn't easy turning this Kentucky Coffee Tree into stove wood. I debated setting it aside to be made into lumber, but I don't have a good place to store it out of the weather so I chopped it up.

Box blade repair is finished and it has been moved out of the shop. Next big project is to replace the bunk boards on the boat trailer. I had originally thought of doing that project in the parking lot at a nearby lake where I could put the boat in the water while working on the trailer. Then I remembered that I hate being cold, so I decided to do it in the shop where there's heat. I'll just have to jack the boat up and rest it on stands in order to get at the bunk boards.

[4everontheRight]

Anyone have any experience with Aerogardens? Got one 2 years ago for Christmas. This past year I finally planted some of my own seeds from this past summers crop of Mexibell peppers. The plant I have in the Aerogarden is doing pretty well except I'm enduring a critter of some kind. The leaves are sticky and there are these teeny littlelight colored spots on the leaves and in a few weeks, I suspect they will turn into the little fruit fly looking things I am seeing on the water tray cover of the Aerogarden.

I don't think the Aerogarden has anything to do with these things on the leaves just a side note to inform that the plants are inside. I did bring a few potted plants inside from our patio when the temps got too low so it's possible I picked up a foe from that but they don't seem to be damaging the plant but I'm not sure that they won't in the future.

I have 4 peppers growing albeit small peppers but they're young yet. I've pulled the plant out of the tray and washed the leaves off twice now and I'll be darned if these things are right back again! Any ideas on what would cause a sticky leaf and a small little bug that resembles a fruit fly but not dark, light colored fly thingy?