It's 91deg and the garden has come alive

Mother Nature | April 29th, 2021 | Mariner

[logi_cal869]

Thank God (and your neighbors) for CO2!!!

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

Scuz my Hiccup!

Florida, Texas or California Coast, or down in a basin in California! (Mariner says coastline. Meybe S Diego?)

I’m KS/MO border 6b.

I’ve been harvesting radishes and Tokyo market turnips and parseley and stuff.

[slouper]

My money tree has not born fruit yet. Maybe I should ask the Fed what kind of fertilizer they use.

[Mariner]

I didn’t get in a winter/early spring garden this year.

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

Its good you did get a garden though!

[Brian Griffin]

In my part of Florida south of Tampa, I’ve got three tomato plants that refuse to grow more than a foot high that I’ve seen a few blossoms on.

I’ve got quite a number of broccoli plants that continue to grow but are giving no sign of being productive.

My Prizehead lettuce seeds have sprouted and are growing. I’ll have to move them out of 12-packs I use for starting seeds and into the ground. Hopefully I get some lettuce before it gets too hot.

I got some parsley that I hope will grow to useful size before the swallowtail butterfly caterpillars devour the plants sometime in May.

[Brian Griffin]

Mustard greens grow remarkably well in my part of Florida but typically have to be cooked because raw mustard greens are too ‘hot’ to eat in large quantity.

[Mariner]

“swallowtail butterfly caterpillars devour the plants”

BT spray kills all caterpillars and harms nothing else.

https://www.amazon.com/bt-spray/s?k=bt+spray

[freebilly]

I don’t recall any atmospheric rivers this year. They were definitely needed. I live near the shores of the largest freshwater lake in California and it’s down considerably. Could be a bad year for algae blooms and massive fish kills....