Posted on 03/12/2022 6:45:42 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
Hurray for Spring!!!!
Mmmm Mmmmm Mmmmm!
Sounds Good!
Saw first robins just now, bobbing on the lawn in the spring snow squall.
The first green stuff is often the invasive garlic mustard. No spotting yet.
pre-Spring turns to early Spring in 8 or 9 days.
My crocus that are planted closest to the house are peaking out of the ground!
I’ve had good luck starting seeds with this.
Earlygrow is the company and they make lots of different sizes and types of seed propagators.
Smaller ones might be more convenient and easier to use in a window, but I needed to put everything in one place and the windowsills weren’t warm enough even with sunshine.
There are three individual tiers on this model which can be removed and added as plants grow.
The vents work well to help control humidity.
I’ve put my warming mat on 1” styrofoam sheets to protect the table top and to send the heat to the propagator.
It’s worked well.
The top of the styrofoam melted only very slightly - enough to conform to the shape of the mat.
We’re not that cold yet. Overnight, though…….
👀 🤣🤣
Thank you for posting the thread, Diana!
I just bought a lemon tree and a lime tree that I need to grow in pots so that we can put them inside in the winter.
Does anyone have advice?
I’m hoping that they’re easy to grow because I have a very brown thumb.
:-/
Snowing - big, beautiful flakes. The breeze is swirling them around. It’s a very pretty scene. My dad is sitting by a window watching .... wants a cup of hot chocolate to go with his snow watching!
My backhoe is scheduled to arrive Tuesday!!! It’s a tiny one, but hopefully I can use it to make progress on my various construction projects.
My family seems to be catching on to the fact that supply shortages and price increases are inevitable. I may end up getting help with the big garden this year. We’ll see.
We started out with big fluffy flakes but it’s now finer and the wind is starting to kick up.
It’s supposed to get very windy today and stay that way overnight.
We tend to lose power easily, so we need to keep an eye on that.
BTW, FWIW, Daylight Savings Time this weekend.
With our acidic soil here, we have blueberries and blackberries growing wild. The kids and I went blackberry collecting one year and I made a batch of jam. The blueberries are the tiny ones and the birds eat most of them before they ripen. We’ve also got service-berry trees here and I actually managed to taste a ripe one that the birds missed and it tasted a lot like a blueberry.
Growing up in MA I used to feast on wild blueberries. The woods were loaded with the small ones and there was a hill/knoll I found that had the big ones. I called it blueberry hill of course.
I’ve been meaning to buy some bluecrop or one of the other varieties that the ag ext office recommends.
Looking at Gurney’s and the prices have gone up quite a bit. I got a nursery catalog in the mail this year from Chief River nursery in WI. They don’t have the selection that Gurney’s has but the prices are better.
Roger that on DST.
We had big winds this morning, but they appear to have died down. Snow still going, but tiny little flakes now.
We live on a country road with overhead power lines & tend to get trees blowing down on them fairly frequently. After the snow/ice in January, we have had 2 tree trimming crews work the road at separate times. NO branches anywhere near the lines when they got through trimming, but there’s still a risk of a tree (got some old ones) that are actually in the woods, blowing down & being tall enough to get the lines. We do have a generator so as long as it starts (my stressful job), we do ok.
Celery is still cheap to buy, so I don’t bother. It also freezes well, so I can keep some chopped in the freezer for stews, soups, casseroles, etc. I DO like ‘Cutting Celery’ though. Better flavor, no muss or fuss trussing it up to get it to grow straight, etc.
Cutting Celery: A Kitchen Staple Growing in the Garden
https://pegplant.com/2020/06/09/cutting-celery-a-kitchen-staple-growing-in-the-garden/
Hello, from sunny, chilly North Georgia, where we are having 40mph winds at below freezing temps. I just got home to my warm house after a landscaping install. Bring on the heat and an Irish Cream in my coffee!
We had problems with our Currants being too near White Pine. They share a disease that effects the currant leaves; Pine Blister Rust. Ouch!
We moved them along our driveway and the wildlife is liking them. I harvest what I can. ;)
My plum (Mount Royal; self-pollinator) were FABULOUS last year, and plentiful.
I am on my third replacement cherry tree (North Star) so it can cross with the other one I already have. Same with the peach, but this will be the second replacement. (Contender)
Puppies chewed on the cherry before I noticed, and the steer (who escaped one day) used the peach as a back-scratcher and broke it.
THIS is why we can’t have nice things, LOL!
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