[Diana in Wisconsin]

[Diana in Wisconsin]

[metmom]

Yea!

I’ve been waiting for you to post this.

I started onion seeds indoors and they are looking like they need to be planted outside.

The nighttime temperature is going to be very cold tonight but after this, the lows are going to be in the 30’s and highs in the mid 50’s.

Is this the time to plant them and other cool weather crops.

I never had the garden space before to experiment with the variety I can do now. So can you give us cool weather crop noobs some advice on onions and other stuff like radishes, broccoli, brussel sprouts, cabbage, carrots, etc?

[stars & stripes forever]

We just installed 5 galvanized steel raised beds in our garden area and am looking forward to reaping a harvest of veggies.

Glad to see your gardening thread.

[left that other site]

I jumped the gun with my pansies and herbs.

We had a hard freeze last night.Grrrrrr

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

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[Oshkalaboomboom]

As you can see from these pictures, you don't need a fancy setup to germinate seeds. These were done with a plate, a paper towel and a plastic glass. The pepper I used is in the picture is what I used, a Canary Island Cayenne, which illustrates another concept of gardening. The pepper may not be originally from the Canary Islands. It may not even be a Cayenne. But I'm not selling seeds for a living so accuracy isn't as important as memory. When my wife was in the hospital I started talking peppers with the husband of another patient. I brought him some seeds, some whole peppers and a bottle of homemade Carolina Ketchup. He brought me a bag of these dried peppers that he said were grown by a friend of his in the Canary Islands. The shape and the heat reminded me of a Cayenne so that's what I named them. I have several plants started from these seedlings. We'll see what they look like in a few months.

[tubebender]

Lady Bender started spading for a new Strawberry bed yesterday. Old age and a birth defect have all but parked me. A friend loaned me a battery powered scooter yesterday so I can get out in the garden...

[Cleebie Grums]

Please add me to the ping list- Thankyou!

[heartwood]

My tomato seedlings are up but they always seem to grow slowly after that, not put out new leaves. They’re under lights, and I put then out on nice days, and I’ll pot them up when I see roots out the bottom, but what’s a good fertilizer, and how much?

I think commercial growers pump in extra CO2, not possible for home grower.

[LibWhacker]

Tree-like rivers in Baja

(Hope this is a photo and not a drawing)

[ApplegateRanch]

My 10 X 10 portable greenhouse is kaput. I can easily replace the one bent frame pipe, but the cover, alas, is no longer obtainable.

Solved the problem, after looking at others online, by ordering a 10 X 20. I have a better location for it, and that will face it E->W, putting the long side on the south. The extra space will be partially taken up with garden tool & tiller storage.

It will be outside the northern fence of the garden, and I’ll use steel t-posts to anchor it. May install a gate in that fence line, for convenience.

MIGHT do some tilling this coming week; perhaps put in an early planting of spinach & carrots.

I went to Bomgaar’s Supply (https://www.bomgaars.com/) here in town, and bought 100 onion sets, hand-picked. I’m usually stuck with buying the little mesh bags of 100, which usually contain closer to 200 puny sets, of which maybe 50 grow half decently. My 100 weigh over twice as much as one of those little mesh bags, and all are plump & healthy.

I also picked up some russet and Yukon Gold seed potatoes; they’re currently both sprouting more eyes; and developing out the ones they had when I picked them out of the bins.

Need to get more, since I’ll actually have time to garden this year: after 6-1/2 years at Taco John’s, I’m now re-retired.

About 3 weeks ago I talked Mrs. A.R. into taking advantage of a good sale on some great celery, and picked out 6 big, heavy heads. Broke out the Excalibur, and dried 4 of them, and used the other two fresh.

[tubebender]

It's not a V8 but it was cheap...

[Pollard]

New LGDs to replace the adult male that was unfit for society. His previous humans made him dislike humans enough to bite them/me. The one laying down is 6 week old male -- 1/2 Pyrenees, 1/4 Anatolian, 1/4 Akbash. Other is 4 month old Pyrenees/Anatolian female. All three breeds are 100+- lb LGDs. I can raise good dogs. I'll leave the rehabilitation of abused dogs to others.

[Augie]

Warm and dry over the past week here in Central Missouri.

Mrs. Augie was hard at her flower beds over the weekend. I brought two loader buckets of compost up and replenished a couple of the beds that were lacking. The giant mound of horse poop that we cleaned out of the barn last weekend has been moved to the compost heap, along with two of the winter round bale piles.

I didn't get anything accomplished in the kitchen garden, but now that we've got light in the evening I should be able to get some stuff planted this week.

I spent quite a bit of time working on the pond dam. I'm at he point now that I've started to work on the landscaping. I placed ~8 cubic yards of crushed stone on the dam, and got started filling in the low spots with topsoil. I caught one muskrat last week, and it might have been the only one in there. The water has cleared up dramatically since the rat was dispatched.

This is one of the spots that was damaged during the Great Muskrat Invasion of 2020. I don't think anyone was home when I ran the tractor over it, but if they were they will be staying there.

I think it's going to look nice when I'm finished.

[LibWhacker]

This lady can paint her face so it blends in with the background