Got my seed sowing schedule done today
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Comments (5)One nice advantage of winter sowing everything pretty much in the Winter Solstice-Spring Equinox interval is that there is little else to do in the garden, so I have time to get it done without ignoring the rest of the garden chores. This includes any annuals that can take being winter sown wth no problems. I do anything that needs cold startification first, followed by the rest of the shrubs and perennials, followed by the hardier annuals and last at the end of March into April, the basils and the zinnias, which germinate very fast and can rot in cold wet soil. All just in time to start planting out the earliest of my germinating stuff like the wallflowers. I think that's what Bakemon is referring to....See MoreGot my tomatoes done today
Comments (1)yummy.... I love garden fresh tomatoes. That's actually what got me started with gardening in the first place. Today, we have mud. All the snow from last week is melting away at an amazing rate. We've got 60s temps today (not normally that high yet). It's too early to start on my garden beds, but I have a dog so I will be cleaning up the yard today. At least it gets me outside. Have fun cleaning your garden beds. I always enjoy it. Everything is so full of promise at the beginning of Spring. I would definitely prefer to clean out the beds than clean up after the dog....See MoreI sowed seeds today - very therapeutic
Comments (2)Oh my, what DIDN'T I plant. Let's see, for the benefit of the curious: Salem Witch x Admirals Braid (LA purchase) Bold Tiger x Shirred Lace (LA bonus) Happy Returns x Border Crossing (looking for a prolific mini pink) Catherine Woodbery x Night Beacon (looking for a pink/burgundy shade with a large yellow/green throat) Night Beacon x Dancing Penny (ought to yield a huge yellow throat on some shade of rose/pink) Border Crossing x Gentle Shepherd (maybe a pink or a white? I've read that pinks are more likely to yield whites. . . .) Border Crossing x Ida Miles (a long-blooming pink/pastel? Ida is STILL BLOOMING for me, after 8 weeks - amazing) Dallas Star x (? Siloam Uri Winiford? from a mix years ago) (hopefully a pink/pastel with an eye) ? x a huge orange Tet from G. H. Wild, possibly 'Breakaway' (the pod was the size of a golf ball, and the seeds are HUGE - I'll probably get something VERY BIG and VERY ORANGE) ? x 'Gentle Shepherd' (for being a wimpy plant, it sets pods well, and without my help. . . .) ? x ? (unknown x a huge red tet unknown at my church) I've still got pods ripening from a few other crosses (involving 'Hyperion,' 'Hesperus,' 'Heart of Jade,' 'Totally Southern,' 'Zagora,' and 'Ida Miles' - which got crossed with almost everything because it's been blooming for so long, and setting pods like mad). I don't have many pods from crosses made during that awful heat wave followed by rain in July - either they didn't "take" at all, or the pods aborted within a couple weeks, so I don't have anything from 'Matt' at all (DARN!), or from 'Cinnamon Pleasure' or 'Big Show Off.' This ought to be fun. I'm already plotting to eliminate more grass for another raised bed specifically for seedlings. (I've also got a handful of pods from all the random crosses I made up at our church, from the dozen unnamed varieties they have.) Laurel...See MoreGot a seed catalog today
Comments (13)Hi :) SO glad storms weren't too bad! We have had absolutely perfect fall weather, which I'm so grateful for because I got daring and decided to "fall sow" a bunch of seeds and they came UP!!! I'm hoping the unseasonably warm weather will give them.time to develop some good roots. About seed catalogues, I cannot remember which company had written last year saying that they were sending out catalogues earlier and earlier to keep up with competitors who had been doing so as well as people having options to buy early online. I guess they had been losing sales since gardeners had already succumbed and ordered from others by the time theirs got there. I have to admit that I already knew what I wanted this year and was afraid it would be sold out, so I ordered Early and was also Very pleased at the excellent service some had said they couldn't get during rush season. I'm sort of haunting Baker Creek's site like a vulture because I desperately want some of their cool pumpkins when their new catalogue comes out lol...See Moremxk3 z5b_MI
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