[greeneyes]

Pinging the list.

[Silentgypsy]

First strawberry blossom popped up! Yay!

[Arrowhead1952]

We have some tomatoes about the size of ping pong balls. Everything is doing great. Neighbor said he is ready to harvest most of his onion crop next week.

[Sarajevo]

We seem to be a little shy on pictures tonight, so I'm going to bore you all with a bunch of mine :)

Sweet Peppers:

and this one is already bearing:

Potatoes

Onion; the Mrs planted over 150 sets:

Peas and carrots. These will last until the advent of hot weather.

Tomato bed. We're growing Black Krim, Beefsteak, and Golden Jubilee this year

My hydroponics experiment. Tomatoes didn't grow well, but lettuce and cabbage are doing fine:

The crazy papaya. Last year, it froze to the ground, then returned and actually bore fruit. What you see here is the trunk after I lopped off the freeze damage from this last winter. It's been growing in the greenhouse since 2006. Not bad for a plant that's only supposed to live for 2-3 years.

Eeyore, the farm duck:

I planted these peach and plum trees last fall. I'm hoping they'll bear fruit in a year or two. The cages are to keep deer away. They are a real pest in my area.

The Mulberry tree. We harvest our first quart of the year yesterday. It usually bears until the middle of May.

[Old Sarge]

Thanks, Sarmajor!

Greeneyes, could you add both me, and The Bride, to the ping list?

[Just mythoughts]

Thanks again for the thread. The garden proper is now a bog after a week long of cold rain. I did go out to see if what seeds I have gotten planted got washed out. One row of the snow peas were popping through the soil this am. Radishes are up, onions are demonstrating they did not mind the week long soak. No sign of potatoes yet, some spinach seeds have sprouted. My rhubarb will soon have some stalks to harvest. My strawberry beds look much better today than even a week ago... and of course the weeds are doing just grand. Too wet to walk anywhere except the paths.

I have tomatoes, peppers, broccoli, cabbage, cucumbers, squash started in peat moss cups. They all that have sprouted are about ready to get transplanted into a larger home... problem is a lack of space indoors to keep them safe from these still too cold to survive nights.

My hyacinths, pink, white, purple and cream are nearing the end of their grand display of color and scent... and the tulips are just about to open. I was so worried that foot plus of March snow would do them in, but not to be.

After last year's drought I dare not complain about too much water. These preceding months have made it a certainty I won't be picking strawberries in April.

[TEXOKIE]

I’m so pleased! I got my large pots prepared for my container garden today! Gathered up stones for the bottoms, put in leaves, then hauled bags of potting soil over and filled them.

Gave the seedlings (some of which are a foot tall by now!) a sun bath, and also planted several replacement seeds for those that didn’t fare well.

My replacement okra has sprouted, and a couple of my tomato seeds have sprouted!

We are scheduled to have snow, sleet and freezing rain on Wednesday night and Thursday morning. So maybe by Friday or Saturday I can actually start planting.

A friend of mine at a meeting today wore a T-shirt that said, “Garden Yoga” and had pictures of a gal doing all kinds of challenging positions during the course of her gardening activities. I got a good giggle out of that this afternoon as I did my own “garden yoga!”