Posted on 02/29/2008 4:19:25 PM PST by Gabz
-12 Yikes!!
58 here, supposed to reach 68. Low tonite of 34. Gotta love our weather!
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Wow. I guess! :)
Beautiful—sunny, the wind’s got a bite but it’s about 85 in the greenhouse and I’m stuck in the store waiting on customers!
Now that’s a shame. Still..
Been that way. 70 last Weds and 28 Weds nite. We had all our cole stuff outside, had to move it back into the greenhouse. It probably would have survived but it’s too pretty to let it get burnt.
It is a baby grapevine, only planted last year. If I prune there will be absolutely nothing left!
I did try looking around online. I guess I’ll just have to wait and see.
I'm definitely growing some lettuce this year.
um, it’s still snowing and the ground is frozen....(sigh)
Now i have a dormant lawn and am starting to see some green spots intermittently and am looking for guidance.
The lawn was laid by the builder when we built the house about 2 years ago.
Does any of that help clear up my situation?
Bermuda should still be dormant. Don’t know what to tell you about the Scott’s products. Don’t know much about them except that they’re death on centipede—too much nitrogen.
Depending on what kind of crabgrass preventer you have, it might be okay to use it now. Read the label and see. Some of them only keep the seeds from germinating, and some will kill already germinated as well. You could always spot spray, just remember to stay away from shrubs and trees.
Thank you for your assistance. Also, i assume that i could pull one of the green patches and take it to the nursery and get their opinion.
i could pull one of the green patches and take it to the nursery and get their opinion.
That should work. Mostly winter weeds right now anyway. They’ll die when it gets hot, and you get to start all over. :)
Same here right now.
It’s supposed to be in the 50’s Monday.
WHOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“58 here, supposed to reach 68. Low tonite of 34. Gotta love our weather!”
We’ve been having weird weather too ... a few ice storms last couple weeks, then 60’s today and 70’s tomorrow. We’re supposed to have snow on Monday and Tuesday, with highs in the 30’s. I guess it is kind of a weird transition time between winter and spring. I imagine that’s not the last of the strange weather. I did enjoy getting a little glimpse of spring today ... wonderful.
Wow, -12 ?! Hope you’re keeping warm.
I guess I should be thankful for our cold weather lately. We haven’t gotten that cold this year. Single digits were bad enough. I hate that biting feeling on any exposed skin ... no fun. I’ve been threatening for a long time to get one of those hats with only eye holes, and finally got one this winter, but haven’t worn it in public just yet :)
We did have one beautiful day of spring weather today, but next week goes back to winter.
Lots of sweaters. The furnace was really chugging away that morning.
Are there other plants that I should not plant where the tomatoes were? I will be planting zucchini, cucumbers, bell and various verities of hot peppers, watermelon and I have not decided what else yet.
It’s good to move your veggies around in the garden, as different veggies take different nutrients out of the soil. Farmers do this on a large scale, too. One year they’ll plant soybean all around us, which puts nitrogen back INTO the soil, the next season it’ll be corn that takes nitrogen OUT of the soil. Below is a link to a basic planting rotation guide for the home gardener.
It really does work, and keeps your production up. If you don’t have room, or sunlight conditions aren’t right, it won’t kill anything if you don’t move veggies, but just make sure you fertilize the individual plants well, or add compost to the entire garden bed each season.
http://www.no-dig-vegetablegarden.com/crop-rotation.html
I have raised beds and will be removing some, not all, of last years soil and use it to fill low areas and where my dogs have caused problems. I will replace it with a top soil - Black Kow mix and lots of compost mixed in.
I will rotate the tomatoes!
Dittos on what Diana said, and because it helps keep down diseases if you rotate crops.
Any sign of life from your figs yet? The cuttings we took in Jan are starting to bud out—woohoo! They are in teh greenhouse, tho! :)
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