I know it's not spring everywhere...
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Ha! My chives and Thyme survived! Rosemary, not so much.
All of the mosses look good. Let’s see which ones spread the most.
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The crocus and daffodils are coming out here, and it was so warm that I really enjoyed running several errands on foot yesterday.
We are in the last few months of our first year in this house, so we're getting the last garden surprises. I didn't know we had crocus until a patch of purple showed up in our back yard. (Unfortunately, we also have deer or rabbits or something, because something ate them.)
I'm not familiar with pieris, so I was pleasantly surprised to see it blooming in our front yard. And the rhododendron has great big buds, so I'm excited to see it come into bloom.
I'm going to be too busy with the new book to do any vegetable gardening this year, but I've got four tabletop aeroponics systems in my office that are doing great. I've been getting red cherry tomatoes, jalapeño peppers, and lettuce for a while, and I picked my first cucumbers this week. The yellow cherry tomato is covered with blossoms, and the Fairy Tale eggplants have buds. The LED grow lamps on those things keep an upstairs window lit up for part of the night, so I think our neighbors think I'm growing pot up there.
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The crocus and daffodils are coming out here, and it was so warm that I really enjoyed running several errands on foot yesterday.
We are in the last few months of our first year in this house, so we're getting the last garden surprises. I didn't know we had crocus until a patch of purple showed up in our back yard. (Unfortunately, we also have deer or rabbits or something, because something ate them.)
I'm not familiar with pieris, so I was pleasantly surprised to see it blooming in our front yard. And the rhododendron has great big buds, so I'm excited to see it come into bloom.
I'm going to be too busy with the new book to do any vegetable gardening this year, but I've got four tabletop aeroponics systems in my office that are doing great. I've been getting red cherry tomatoes, jalapeño peppers, and lettuce for a while, and I picked my first cucumbers this week. The yellow cherry tomato is covered with blossoms, and the Fairy Tale eggplants have buds. The LED grow lamps on those things keep an upstairs window lit up for part of the night, so I think our neighbors think I'm growing pot up there.
@Mary-Anna said in I know it's not spring everywhere...:
I've got four tabletop aeroponics systems
Ooh, tell us more!
I didn't know we had crocus until a patch of purple showed up in our back yard. (Unfortunately, we also have deer or rabbits or something, because something ate them.)
Rabbits love crocus leaves and flowers.
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The weeping cherry lives!
Sunny and 70 here today - time to assess the carnage.
Looks like ‘most everything survived the winter but the yellow roses look pretty ratty. The big pot with the pink rose in it shattered all to hell and being as the rose never really looked right in the space I chucked the whole mess in to the trash.
Most interesting are the mosses, which I planted in the fall. Each plug has been frost heaved right out of the ground. Some survived, some didn’t. Prolly ought to plant them earlier this year.
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March did not go out like a lamb here. We've had 3 bouts of mixed precipitation, each with 1 to 3 inches of accumulated snow/ice. Each was followed by one or two days of 30s -40s F. Yesterday, I swear, slush was falling from the sky! Temps have been on the rise for the past 8 hours and we're now at around 50F and aren't supposed to go below 45F tonight. So I didn't light the stove. It's cool in here, but not too bad. A little space heater gets the chill out from around the desk.
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We continue to have whipsaw weather. Really warm temps and then they plummet. We may get some snow on Monday. I've been catching up on garden organization projects that aren't weather-dependent. Always seems like I chuck a bunch of pots back in the corner of the yard at the end of the previous season, leaving an unsightly mess. I went through those, got rid of some, and stacked the rest neatly. I also emptied out the elevated beds and am mixing some fresh soil and compost in so that I'm ready when it's time to plant. I have one early daffodil that bloomed last week.
My neighbor is taking out three very tall arborvitaes that shade an area adjacent to my veggie garden. More sun!
So what are y'all going to be growing this year in the way of veggies?
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We continue to have whipsaw weather. Really warm temps and then they plummet. We may get some snow on Monday. I've been catching up on garden organization projects that aren't weather-dependent. Always seems like I chuck a bunch of pots back in the corner of the yard at the end of the previous season, leaving an unsightly mess. I went through those, got rid of some, and stacked the rest neatly. I also emptied out the elevated beds and am mixing some fresh soil and compost in so that I'm ready when it's time to plant. I have one early daffodil that bloomed last week.
My neighbor is taking out three very tall arborvitaes that shade an area adjacent to my veggie garden. More sun!
So what are y'all going to be growing this year in the way of veggies?
@wtg Tomatoes, one Zucchini plant, Cucumbers. These will all be started soon in trays.
I'm going to try planting lettuce, radish, and peas very early this year. In fact if the ground is workable now I might even give it go this early. Reason is that if I wait to plant until our last frost is past, they will bolt.
I will also grow Swiss Chard and maybe Carrots. Maybe a few potatoes plants too.
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Rosemary, French thyme, lemon thyme, chives (back from last year), Tarragon (back from last year), sage, basil, cilantro, bay leaves (survived winter in the house). Maybe hot peppers of some kind.
Meanwhile, I’m pulling weeds. They are always the first things to appear.
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Potatoes - Kennebec, Pink Gypsy, Russet and Red Pontiac.
Tomatoes - Little Sicily and Sweet 100s.
Cukes - several different pickling varieties
Green beans - Kentucky Wonder
Mesclun mix (a modest planting, as Mr wtg isn't a fan)_
Bok choy
Peppers - Mostly poblano, maybe a jalapeno or two.
Sorrel - I have seeds that are old but I'll plant them anyway. Sorrel soup is excellent.
Onions and shallots
Spinach@Bernard I like the idea of Swiss Chard. Have never grown it. Is it hard to grow?
I did peas last year and I love them but yields weren't great.
@Steve-Miller I have chive plants my Dad dug up from his garden that he gave to me back in the 1980s!
I'm currently looking for DYI critter protection ideas on You Tube. The squirrels always want to get into the beds and I want to be ready for them this year. I also need to build some kind of frame so I can put a row cover over the black currants and hopefully avoid the aphids I've been getting on them every year since I planted them.
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Potatoes - Kennebec, Pink Gypsy, Russet and Red Pontiac.
Tomatoes - Little Sicily and Sweet 100s.
Cukes - several different pickling varieties
Green beans - Kentucky Wonder
Mesclun mix (a modest planting, as Mr wtg isn't a fan)_
Bok choy
Peppers - Mostly poblano, maybe a jalapeno or two.
Sorrel - I have seeds that are old but I'll plant them anyway. Sorrel soup is excellent.
Onions and shallots
Spinach@Bernard I like the idea of Swiss Chard. Have never grown it. Is it hard to grow?
I did peas last year and I love them but yields weren't great.
@Steve-Miller I have chive plants my Dad dug up from his garden that he gave to me back in the 1980s!
I'm currently looking for DYI critter protection ideas on You Tube. The squirrels always want to get into the beds and I want to be ready for them this year. I also need to build some kind of frame so I can put a row cover over the black currants and hopefully avoid the aphids I've been getting on them every year since I planted them.
@wtg said in I know it's not spring everywhere...:
@Bernard I like the idea of Swiss Chard. Have never grown it. Is it hard to grow?
Swiss Chard is easy to grow here, except for that year when it was attacked by leaf miners. So I didn't grow any the year after that and when I started again, did so in a different area. It did very well last year. I love using Swiss Chard in quiche w/ leeks.
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I had good luck staking down laundry baskets and milk crates over my lettuce to keep rabbits out.
Might work.
