We have been sitting by the patio door drinking in the sun shine and drinking some Wassail. Got a lot of cleaning done this AM, including giving all the house plants a bath in the tub to wash all the dust and bugs off the plants. Trimmed them all to fit the space they are growing in.
Hard to believe but another year is nearly gone. This is the last ping for the year. After the holiday break, the garden catalogs will come out to study. I won't be buying much this year as I over purschased and under planted last year. LOL
Have a great weekend, and a HAPPY NEW YEAR! God Bless.
Pinging the List.
Good afternoon. I hope you had a merry Christmas with all the family.
We had the Ms. gang out and it was great, but is good to get back to the everyday routine.
Nothing much going on in the garden, we did get the teenagers to spread compost over the garden while they were here.
Thinking about seed starting that will go on in a few weeks. Gunna do something a little different this year. Gunna bend a cattle panel over into an arch and grow some trombone squash and heirloom maters in containers and let them grow overhead. Need to do someting different to keep interest alive, same old, same old kinda gets old.
It is nearly 50 degrees in SW OH, a bright, dazzling sunny day. My kittehs have been warming their stripes in the sun. I wish the catalogues would start arriving in earnest...
T Bender reporting in for the South North West region. Our weather has been insanely nice for nearly all of this year BUT… we have had less than a third of our usual rainfall and December has only seen a half inch against a normal 8 inches. We have received a multitude of seed catalogs but I have not found where Lady Bender is hoarding them. She is in great pain because of a worn out hip joint or two and faces surgery after she gets her flowers planted in late spring. I have a few photos to post but Flickr is not giving me the correct HTML code and I really want to share the heart warming gift I gave my Child Bride...
Happy New Year to the gardening list & hope you all had a Very Merry Christmas!
It’s supposed to warm up/ dry off here this weekend, so we’re going to get the patio straightened out to plant artichokes & onions in a couple of weeks. MAYbe strawberries, too. (What I’m anxious to get going are the turnips)
I’ve never even considered cooking with lemongrass, but we’ve been meaning to get/ plant some to help with mosquitoes for years- & never get around to it. Has anyone used it for that? Does it work?
We had a fun Christmas with friends.
We, too have been in a bit of a weather reprieve, but today was the last day of that; still a few inches of white sky droppings on the ground, with a layer of ice from the last batch under it.
Today, it hit 47, but tomorrow, we go back to highs in the teens. It gave me a chance to make two runs into town to get water to top off the tanks: set for 3-4 weeks again, which will get us through to the next warm break.
Ordered a couple of potentillas to put in at the top of our rock retaining wall, to replace the Missouri Gooseberry bushes we finally removed: they had long since shot their wad, and were just thorny nuisances. This should add some color all summer. We ordered them from Bluestone Perennials, as we are very happy with the English lavender and sweet violets we got from them a couple of years ago.
Despite 4” of snow in their yard, I let the chickens out today. They seemed to enjoy the outing, but tired of it rather quickly; when I went up at 4, they were already all inside. Just had to turn their heater back on, and shut the door of the coop. And that reminds me that I forgot to refill the bird feeder.
Just throwing stuff in the compost heap up here in Pennsy.
That and emptying the rain barrels when the temp gets high enough.
They do make some nice ice sculptures when I upend them.
Hi greeneyes and everyone!
I finished looking through one of my seed catalogs, and have not added up my wish list. I’m afraid to do so and report to Darlin!
I had placed one of the pots of parsley inside, and the other outside. The one inside has NOT been happy! I was nonplussed to see that the outside one has bounced back after the recent snow and seems very happy! I put the inside one outside, and now we’ll see how they stand up to the 15 degree weather we are having tonight! I have them in a sheltered place on the south side of the house, so I’m hoping they make it, but if not, it was an experiment anyway.
Today we found that one of our yellow onions in our onion/potato basket in the kitchen has sprouted. I plan to pot it, but I’m wondering if I should put it outside, or see if it can brave our indoor situation until spring. I really don’t know much about onions!
We are on “Wiseman Extended Time” (”WET” time) - because, after all it’s still Christmas until the Wisemen get there!
(12 Days of Christmas and all that!) We decided not to let the Christmas crazies take over and so we finalized our cards and got them in the mail a couple days ago. We are glad that others are in a similar relaxed approach, because cards are still coming to us in small batches each day.
Santa DID bring me that garden wagon! :-D
Our December 25th celebration was joyful, and I’m hoping everyone else’s was equally blessed.