Not much doing garden wise. I gave the indoor plants a bath in the shower. I have a red marconi pepper ready to pick. The lemon tree has numerous lemons about the size of olives.
I'll be starting some seeds soon for some indoor spinach, lettuce, and herbs.
Have a great weekend, and God Bless.
Pinging the List.
Got some sweet pea seedlings + bags of seeds at the nursery yesterday. They go in this afternoon or maybe tomorrow here in the Pasadena area, So Cal. It was 81 yesterday and they’ll love it. After Christmas at 4/32 degrees in western Colorado, the sun is so nice.
I’m babysitting and on a tablet now, so I’ll have to post pix later when I get home. It’s cold here today, so I wouldn’t have gotten anything done if I were home.
I want spring!
/johnny
Oh wow, do you really grow lettuce and spinach indoors...or are you just starting them? I have a grow lamp and would LOVE to know how to grow them inside, if it’s possible.
I am starting over after the “White Fly Episode”
Herbs from seeds.
Also have some pineapples and avocados starting up.
-3° when I got up this morning. Float valve was frozen in the horse drinker. Had to take the lid off and thaw it out, but before I could get the lid off I had to thaw the latch. This kind of weather makes my bones ache. Seed catalogs came in a flurry the past few days, I must have a dozen now.
We have more black seed leaf lettuce than we can eat. Gave some to a neighbor and she loved it.
I need to pull purple top turnips tomorrow. They are about the size of billiard balls.
I am scaling down the number of varieties I’m planting this year and will have a great deal of extra seed that I am wanting to give away. Everything I have is heirloom varieties and the seed itself is all over the place in terms of age but has all been kept in a freezer.
What I’m really hoping for is if someone knows of a community garden that wants seed donations or is wanting to beef up their own to a larger scale on the cheap. I’m willing to pay the postage for anyone who’ll take what I have in one big shot.
Anyone with interest freepmail me and I’ll send you a list of what I’m getting rid of, as I’m sitting down here in the next week to 10 days to inventory and organize what I’m cutting.
Hi Greeneyes! I was hoping either you or one of the garden freepers could give me some advice about Amaryllis. I purchased a bulb prior to Christmas and lo and behold... it bloomed Christmas Eve (100% luck). My question is what do I do with the bulb now? Do I plant it in the garden in the Spring or is there a way to keep it somehow so it can bloom again next Christmas? All advice is appreciated!!
Busy today as the temps have dropped into mid 40º at the height of Florida growing season. Harvested two banana bunches, lettuce and a bushel of partially ripe tomatoes (beefsteak, roma, red and yellow pear). Bumper crop of immature bananas, we’ll try to coax them and keep them warm enough through the month until developed enough to harvest.
Guess you heard the Green Bay vs Forty Niners are going to play in sub zero there on Sunday! Don't think even the hardiest GB fans are going to enjoy that.
Looks like our thaw is going to be mid Summer this year... We haven't been above zero for weeks now. Sunday is supposed to be around forty below with -50 or less with the windy chills! They are still forecasting sub zero for the next ten days or so... UGHHH!
Guessing our garden will planted around July 4th, gardening Alaska style here in N.MN!
Continued from last week’s thread about seed catalogs and seeds:
Marcella said, “I have already bought seed so I’m afraid to look through the Bountiful Gardens and Burpee and Burgess and Terroir Seed catalogs. If we have no more room to have plants, do we just buy seed and put the envelopes around the room to look at?”
That’s always the question, isn’t it? LOL!
I know that some seeds should be planted each year in order to have viable seeds after a time. But others will last a while. Not always sure which is which. I’m trying to obtain seeds and/or plants that I’m not readily able to buy locally. Or which I hope will, with proper storage, last a while.
Gardening, I’m finding, is just one experiment after another. If I invested my emotions in it as deeply as I am tempted, it would be so frustrating I might give up!
I will say, though that when I get to see that okra plant produce like Topsy, and that Mammoth Sunflower bow to her king, I get pretty happy, and find it’s all worth it!
Besides that, Santa brought me a new wagon! That ought to keep me going for a while!
Kohlrabi, carrots, parsnips, chard, broccoli, turnips. lettuce, and kale. Everything is under plastic sheeting at night to protect from the freezing temps. The greenhouse, OTOH, has been resting. I need to repair and refill the beds in the late winter/early spring. I'm thinking about adding more to the hydroponics and stocking the fish tank with tilapia when it warms up.
My “gardening” this week has consisted of redesigning my barn plans for when I have animals to take care of. I want a walkway between the barn and the house for these cold, icy, Wisconsin nights. We’re expected to have windchills below 50 on Monday!!!