Saturday Gardening and Puttering Thread - Is it March where you are? [KT]

Above, an inspiring shot of a hibiscus, from Neal in Israel. Taken earlier.

Well, March winds have started here in the Central Valley of California, but I understand that there are some other weather phenomena going on in other parts of the country. We have some of last year's weeds piling up against the fences. Allergens in the air. Bees have to wait for the wind to die down before visiting the rosemary and Aprium blossoms.

How's the weather in your yard and garden?

From 40 Miles North:

Phoenicia Azalea. Lots of blooms this year.

What a color! I've grown that one before. So bright after a dreary winter.

Before and After

This is great:

Hi KT:
We exchanged correspondence a few weeks ago about the idea of before &
after pictures of trees when they were planted and of the same tree
years later. I'd love to see any such pictures your readers might
submit. I can't believe that I never took pictures of trees I planted
until I moved in to my current house four years ago.
However, I do have some before / after pictures* of the landscaping I
did at my old house back in Texas. I worked in landscaping during high
school and college, and I still love to do projects in the yard at my
current house.
Thanks for your warm sunny Gardening Thread during the bleak mid-winter.
Cumberland Astro

Wildlife and the Great Outdoors

Hi KT, San Franpsycho here. I thought you might enjoy these snaps of a Blue Heron preening in the afternoon sun yesterday at Stow Lake in Golden Gate Park.

Great bird, great trees! Thanks!

A mystery, from back in January. Any ideas what it might be? The red blossoms are bougainvillea.

Not sure if this fits into the gardening post, found it up in a pine tree today. Really looks like a nest to me, but if so it is big - easily 4-5 feet long. We do have vultures, hawks, and eagles in the area. I'll try to get the trail cam on it in the next week or so to see if it's active.
motionview

Last Week

Did you catch the comment on tapping maple trees from the Thread before the Gardening Thread? Impressive!

Super hot peppers! Watch out when planting!

Gardens of and Puttering By The Horde

I have an Octopus agave that is doing its last glorious hurrah and putting up its bloom stalk. The first picture is a week ago and the second was today. It grows at least a foot or two a week in its final stages. I will keep trying to document its progress for you. It is an interesting process. It always looks like a big asparagus spear starting out.
Not sure if I sent you the picture from about a month ago, we got a rare dusting of snow. It only lasted for about two hours but right after I took this picture I had to run out and get all the snow of the African Aloe as it is very frost sensitive and even though the temperature was in the 40's, snow sitting on it too long can damage it. So I had to scrape all the snow off and cover it in a pillow case until the snow was over.
Madly planting here in Arizona, this is one of the busiest times for planting. The peach tree is flowering, the Mulberry Trees are sprouting leaves and all the citrus is starting to make their flower buds. Hopefully no frost will hit us and ruin this years crop. Hope the horde are happy and staying safe!
Wee Kreek Farm Girl

I hope you don't get frost at the wrong time, too!

Such intriguing plants! Plus a Garden Dog and Art!

More azaleas:

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1 'Gardening' this week consisted of hacking out old grown and winter clean up.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 06, 2021 01:29 PM (Rvt88)

2 Asleep at the tablet
Good afternoon Greenthumbs

Posted by: Skip at March 06, 2021 01:30 PM (Cxk7w)

3 hiya

Posted by: JT at March 06, 2021 01:32 PM (arJlL)

4 The puncture vine is starting its evil ways here in the high desert. Time for the hula hoe.

Posted by: Ennui4Me at March 06, 2021 01:32 PM (EBoug)

5
Looks like the cold weather last month killed off our bottlebrushes. This will disappoint the bees.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at March 06, 2021 01:33 PM (/UiJP)

6 Herons looking for the easy meal in someone's Koy pond.

Posted by: Skip at March 06, 2021 01:33 PM (Cxk7w)

7 nice bright flowers ... too early for that here, but the daffodils are up a couple inches, ground has thawed, geese and ducks stopping in on the pond as they head north. ... Saw a couple robins, but waiting for the bigger groups of them. Lots of 60s forecast ... "it's happening" again ... spring is in the air. cheers to the growers ...

Posted by: illiniwek at March 06, 2021 01:34 PM (Cus5s)

8
'Gardening' this week consisted of hacking out old grown and winter clean up.
Posted by: Tonypete at March 06, 2021 01:29 PM (Rvt8

_________

The very thought terrifies me. I take care of 4 acres and we take care of 400 square feet.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at March 06, 2021 01:39 PM (mht8P)

9 Ennui4Me at March 06, 2021 01:32 PM
I hate that. I'll have to check to see if our puncture vines are out here. Last to bloom, first to set seed, it seems.

Posted by: KT at March 06, 2021 01:41 PM (BVQ+1)

10 Cumberland Astro has done some great things in his yard! Wonder if he designed those beds.

Posted by: KT at March 06, 2021 01:42 PM (BVQ+1)

11 Yet another great-looking Gardening thread, KT.

>> [ Wee Kreek Farm Girl ] So I had to scrape all the snow
>> off and cover it in a pillow case until the snow was over.

[ Applauds WKFG's determination ]

Posted by: 40 Miles North at March 06, 2021 01:43 PM (uWF4x)

12 How's the weather in your yard and garden?

Muddy with patches of snow and ice so not much playing in the dirt going to occur here for awhile. Daughter brought me some horse radish and Jerusalem artichoke starts. Hopefully they will be a successful experiment this year.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * a figment of someone's imagination at March 06, 2021 01:44 PM (N4w1e)

13 My gardening/landscaping consists of looking out my back window and imagining what I could do.

But then I sigh and realize I'm not up to it. Maybe 10 years ago.

The place looks good in my head tho.

Posted by: jakee308 at March 06, 2021 01:45 PM (5+Bbc)

14 Great shots, Neal in Israel and San Franpsycho.

Posted by: 40 Miles North at March 06, 2021 01:45 PM (uWF4x)

15 my poor princess fern I overwinter is just pining to get back outdoors, I can tell. But the thyme plant has done surprisingly well indoors, and the citronella is just indestructible.

Next week will be much warmer, so will probably be outdoors doing something garden-ish

Posted by: kallisto at March 06, 2021 01:46 PM (DJFLF)

16 Soon all these plants will be dead froms globall warning thanks to Trump's pollluting policies !!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, VT at March 06, 2021 01:46 PM (TdWJo)

17 Still to cold here in GA to do much, but I did order a new tiller for the tractor and am getting some seeds started indoors. Looks like veg garden will grow to about a 1/4 acre this year.

Posted by: BunkerintheBurbs at March 06, 2021 01:46 PM (oJZyY)

18 Posted by: Ennui4Me at March 06, 2021 01:32 PM (EBoug)

Looks like what I grew up calling "goat heads" in Colorado. I'm surprised wetter climates get them since they seem pretty optimized for arid areas.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 06, 2021 01:51 PM (1lKRm)

19 Mrs. Sock is down surveying her raspberry patch for winter damage. She occasionally complains about the amount of effort they take but every year she puts in the hours and a bountiful harvest ( 60 + gallons) is the result.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * a figment of someone's imagination at March 06, 2021 01:53 PM (N4w1e)

20 Posted by: Sock Monkey * a figment of someone's imagination at March 06, 2021 01:53 PM (N4w1e)

Sixty plus gallons of raspberries sounds delightful.

My in-laws have given me black raspberry starts a couple of times, but I've managed to kill them every time. Then again, I've killed rhubarb starts three times, so I think I'm just really bad at gardening.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 06, 2021 01:56 PM (1lKRm)

21
This winter I noticed our rhododendron were getting pummeled by deer. Two little fawns to be exact. Too late, I discovered that eating the leaves provided them with no nutritional value whatsoever and a couple days later I found a dead fawn not far from my house. It didn't look emaciated but it must have been full of useless crap in its belly.

The wife made up a couple balls of oats and crisco and we left it out for the second fawn, who ate it and never came back.

Global warming, which covered our area with snow for weeks is the likely cause of the first fawns death, right?

Posted by: Bill from Attainder at March 06, 2021 02:00 PM (N/gDA)

22 Sunny, dry and warmening to temps above 50 here in N. Indiana. I might very well sow some radish by the middle of the week. Otherwise, superhot peppers are germinating, also a flat of assorted head and romaine lettuce is beginingbto germinate. I have these in the spare bedroom that is cut off from the heat, so its a perfect 60- something degrees in there as the lettuce thrives in cooler temps.

Sowing another flat of hot peppers today that take longer to germinate - filipino 'labuyo' , ghost pepper, fatali habanero, biquino, and a heatless habanero variety 'roulette' which makes excellant paprika.

Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid at March 06, 2021 02:00 PM (n/szn)

23 Last years swiss chard is now taking over the raised beds. Number 2 son had 3 large leaves around grilled fish patties and said it was much better than romaine.
The 3 tomatoes (Costco transplants) are doing well.
The Cherokee purple has a couple of blossoms. I still don't know if it will thrive (survive obviously; but, thrive?).
I haven't mentioned the snow pea, we've been eating the few pods it has grown as we pick them. I think I'll plant more next year (season will end quickly once the heat hits).
Scattered carrots doing well. 3 types of leave lettuce redistributed by the birds are crowding each other. I've let them grow and will thin them today for a salad.
Lemon tree is over loaded with lemons and the blossoms are open so we're picking as fast as we can. I've been reading recipes and think next year it'll be time for candied lemon peel and lemon marmalade.
Hope all you in the frozen areas get to get out and garden soon.

Posted by: AZ deplorable isolated at March 06, 2021 02:01 PM (gtatv)

24 Sixty plus gallons of raspberries sounds delightful.

My in-laws have given me black raspberry starts a couple of times, but I've managed to kill them every time. Then again, I've killed rhubarb starts three times, so I think I'm just really bad at gardening.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette

It is. We love our summertime berries. Grandkids think it's normal to look in the freezer and have your pick of raspberries, strawberries or huckleberries. We got our starts from my mother 25 years ago. My mother got her's from my grandfather back in the sixties when I was a wee tyke.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * a figment of someone's imagination at March 06, 2021 02:02 PM (N4w1e)

25 From Boise area: Mild week, up to mid-60's some days.
Husband continues to rip up dead sod - to compost it, I alternate layers of ripped up pieces with layers of saved leaves.
Corn rows got covered with finished compost (plus eggshells) - will till in later.
Spring burn pile got burned.
Husband working on spring mower maintenance - new mower last year, so he's going through manual to learn new system.
I cleaned up part of the dead sweet alyssum and leaves in garden behind kitchen - found a surprise daffodil sprout. Hyacinths there showing color (I have blue, and fragrant white).
We've been cutting leaves of bunchgrass and Siberian Iris with hedge trimmer, before new sprouts come up.
I finished digging/smoothing soil in 5 of 6 raised beds.
One interesting note: Miner's Lettuce plants from Territorial Seed Co. seeds have *overwintered* outside the back door! Didn't expect that.

Posted by: Pat* at March 06, 2021 02:04 PM (2pX/F)

26 One of the vloggers had two flat tires on his Yukon and both tires on their cargo trailer go flat from backing into a patch of goat heads. When I bicycled in the San Joaquin Valley, we had a wire that ran over the top of the tire to knock those off. Still got flats from them.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at March 06, 2021 02:06 PM (YynYJ)

27 Pat* at March 06, 2021 02:04 PM
Wow. It's impressive that your miner's lettuce overwintered.

Posted by: KT at March 06, 2021 02:06 PM (BVQ+1)

28 One of the minature African Violets that I posted about here is starting to bloom. I'll take a picture of it when it does. I got some fertilizer for them and am repotting the big one.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at March 06, 2021 02:07 PM (YynYJ)

29 I just got the, you need to be outside doing something productive look. Oh well, battery is almost kaput on my phone so enjoy yourselves horde.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * a figment of someone's imagination at March 06, 2021 02:08 PM (N4w1e)

30 Remember: We are not The Deplorables. We are The Unconquerables! We won't be lied to, and we won't live under the lash.
Stay alert, stay prepared, stay safe out there.
Be ready to build over, build under, build around, and have Unfettered Conversations!
***
My usual encouragement to all here: improve survival skills, build a trustworthy network of friends/allies, keep up morale, resist oppressive "FedCoats", and mock gov't officials & media (without getting caught red-handed). Also, write to your Senators/Reps to express opinions (politely will work better to get them to listen).
****
What can you do this week to become more resilient, more prepared, in the face of the unexpected?

Posted by: Pat* at March 06, 2021 02:09 PM (2pX/F)

31 I intend to fix the bench outside of the apartment/condo complex where we are living today (our house blew up in a natural gas explosion on December 1

. I am close to being fully mobile (do not recommend broken ribs or hips, however). I am tired of seeing elderly people trying to sit on this bench without it falling down.

Posted by: jackcoke at March 06, 2021 02:09 PM (UwKNk)

32 Hi all,
40 Miles North, thanks for the applause but it being the most expensive plant in my garden I do try to keep it going. It has a serious tilt to it, reaching for the sun I suppose, but when I got it it was only two feet tall and worth $300, now it is about 5 or 6 feet tall and they start getting into the $1000's . I have to figure out a way to slowly straighten it out.

Posted by: Weekreekfarmgirl at March 06, 2021 02:10 PM (C2hg2)

33 Still wondering where the huge thing in motionview's pine tree came from.

Aliens?

Posted by: KT at March 06, 2021 02:11 PM (BVQ+1)

34 Posted by: Sock Monkey * a figment of someone's imagination at March 06, 2021 02:02 PM (N4w1e)

You can grow Huckleberries?! Inspector would be interested in tips as huckleberries are a big part of some of his favorite childhood memories.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 06, 2021 02:14 PM (1lKRm)

35 goat heads. When I bicycled in the San Joaquin Valley, we had a wire that ran over the top of the tire to knock those off. Still got flats from them.
Posted by: Notsothoreau

They are a bane here as well.
Nasty when the kids went into the park across the street barefoot as well.
I yank them out of the park's grass when I see them.

Posted by: AZ deplorable isolated at March 06, 2021 02:14 PM (gtatv)

36 Still wondering where the huge thing in motionview's pine tree came from.

Aliens?
Posted by: KT at March 06, 2021 02:11 PM (BVQ+1)

Might be mistletoe, a parasitic plant. See lots of it in trees here in AZ.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 06, 2021 02:17 PM (mzC78)

37 Not sure if this fits into the gardening post, found it up in a pine tree today. Really looks like a nest to me, but if so it is big - easily 4-5 feet long. We do have vultures, hawks, and eagles in the area. I'll try to get the trail cam on it in the next week or so to see if it's active.
motionview

I can't tell where you are; but, squirrels and owls build nests like that too.

Posted by: AZ deplorable isolated at March 06, 2021 02:22 PM (gtatv)

38 Posted by: AZ deplorable isolated at March 06, 2021 02:14 PM (gtatv)

Our first house had been a rental and it looked like the renter was under the impression that goat heads were the desired lawn plant. The kids would cry if I suggested they go play in the back yard and the thorns coming in on shoes destroyed the kitchen linoleum. Two years of pulling the things religiously made a big difference. I have to admit that I was fairly pleased with how the yard ended up before we moved.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 06, 2021 02:22 PM (1lKRm)

39 False spring in Nebraska. Every year, I have to slap the backs of my hands and tell myself that doing anything plant wise in March is a Bad Thing. Any time I jump the gun, Mother Nature comes up with something nasty. Technically, May 15 is the frost free day, but I usually start earlier than that -- about the middle of April.

I really don't do all that much. I'll have to cut last years growth off my butterfly bushes and Russian Sage around the end of March. Leaving them as is over winter helps get them through the cold weather. A couple of my potted herbs usually make it through the winter, too. I have a Creeping Thyme that's about five years old. I do all of my gardening in containers. My 29-year-old knees don't take kneeling any more. And I do strictly flowers for pollinators and humming birds. Neither the XO or I are any good at growing anything useful. We talked about doing maybe one tomato plant for BLTs. Because I am on dialysis, I have to severely limit my tomato intake. He might grow a jalapeno, but usually he can scrounge some from one of the kids.

Thanks to every one for sharing.

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- Bitterly clinging to the deplorable life at March 06, 2021 02:26 PM (dLD8W)

40 I was fairly pleased with how the yard ended up before we moved.
Posted by: Polliwog

lol. Isn't that always the way? You get the property just the way you want it and then it's off to somewhere else.
I believe it'll happen to us in the next year.

Posted by: AZ deplorable isolated at March 06, 2021 02:27 PM (gtatv)

41 Is it March where you are?

If March means a few straggling snow flakes blowing around, yes, it is.

Posted by: t-bird at March 06, 2021 02:29 PM (KfC1e)

42 I'm excited about my new yard in Arkansas because, unlike Colorado, apparently a person can grow blueberries there!

Well, you can sorta grow blueberries in Colorado, but you have to constantly fight the alkaline soil.

Posted by: Emmie at March 06, 2021 02:33 PM (ofYez)

43 Still wondering where the huge thing in motionview's pine tree came from.

Aliens?
Posted by: KT

Great blue herons make a huge untidy nest. Dunno.

Loaded up the Bobcat and went to a neighboring burb to haul horse manure from the municipal stable. Just got back with second load. Hauling truck blew a radiator hose! At least it was in the pasture, not way back behind the stable...
We had spinach until the intense cold (under plastic). Wife planted more today, and filled up the two other raised beds that settled.
We have sweet potatoes in the south window to make slips. Slow process.
Planning garden! 3 or 4 inches of manure, turn it all in, and hope for rain someday (but not til I get the manure dumped!)

Posted by: MkY at March 06, 2021 02:36 PM (msfMx)

44 Posted by: Emmie at March 06, 2021 02:33 PM (ofYez)

In theory, putting your coffee grounds on the blueberries daily would help. My in-laws in CO never had much luck, but the didn't continue to acidulate the soil after planting.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 06, 2021 02:37 PM (1lKRm)

45 One of the west coast nurseries carries huckleberries. Might be Territorial.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at March 06, 2021 02:38 PM (YynYJ)

46 acidulate

Save that word for tomorrow!

Posted by: MkY at March 06, 2021 02:39 PM (msfMx)

47 Ah goatsheads. I did take someone's suggestion that 2-4-D ester works well to kill them several years ago and have made a huge reduction in them. Near impossible to eradicate them here as riding out will pick up some burrs in horse's hooves, plus having the horses on a limited size lot of sandy soil its impossible to get a dense enough growth to crowd out the goatsheads. But I persist, cuz I hate those things, and I do see the progress in thinning them, gaining some patches where I get none.

Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at March 06, 2021 02:39 PM (Aashi)

48 31 I intend to fix the bench outside of the apartment/condo complex where we are living today (our house blew up in a natural gas explosion on December 1. I am close to being fully mobile (do not recommend broken ribs or hips, however). I am tired of seeing elderly people trying to sit on this bench without it falling down.
Posted by: jackcoke at March 06, 2021 02:09 PM (UwKNk)
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WOW. Glad you are on the mend.

Posted by: BunkerintheBurbs at March 06, 2021 02:40 PM (oJZyY)

49 In theory, putting your coffee grounds on the blueberries daily would help. My in-laws in CO never had much luck, but the didn't continue to acidulate the soil after planting.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 06, 2021 02:37 PM (1lKRm

Yes, I've heard that theory. I couldn't tell that it helped. One of the issues was I suspect the irrigation ditch water is also rather sweet. I just couldn't stay ahead of the ph levels.

Posted by: Emmie at March 06, 2021 02:43 PM (ofYez)

50 Hyacinths and Daffodils are starting to peek through the ground here. Haven't seen the Crocus yet. As this was the first year I've had a chance to do any gardening at the new place, I might have overdone it last fall with the spring bulbs (a little north of 200 total bulbs). But I needed something to bring life back to the place and what better way than a bunch of Easter Flowers!

Posted by: Shy Lurking Voter at March 06, 2021 02:43 PM (DkHo+)

51 Posted by: MkY at March 06, 2021 02:39 PM (msfMx)

I just hope I used it correctly!

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 06, 2021 02:43 PM (1lKRm)

52 Probably will get willowed, but-

Trying to grow tomatoes and bell peppers from seeds this year. Have them in the tiny compartments. Tomatoes are up, but have only seen one tiny pepper stem, just today. I keep looking at them all the time, going, "Grow! grow!" We'll see how far I get.

Posted by: skywch at March 06, 2021 02:45 PM (Y/Ps0)

53 Posted by: Shy Lurking Voter at March 06, 2021 02:43 PM (DkHo+)

I hope you get a really nice show of flowers.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 06, 2021 02:46 PM (1lKRm)

54 I'm not saying that nest is Q HQ, but I'm also not not saying that either.

I did get the trail cam on it for two weeks, no activity.

Posted by: Motionview at March 06, 2021 02:47 PM (A5SS8)

55 skywch

We've grown ours for 3 years now. Too much of the poor selection, incorrectly labeled plants, etc.
Ours will go in the potting soil last week of theis month, or first week of next.
Frost free is May 10th here.

Posted by: MkY at March 06, 2021 02:47 PM (msfMx)

56 Our designated seed starter says peppers are a little slower... so there's that!

Posted by: MkY at March 06, 2021 02:49 PM (msfMx)

57 MkY- it's April 15 where I am. Yes, good reasons for growing from seed; you never know with plants. I've just never done it before and am hovering too much, lol. It killed me to thin them out, even.

Posted by: skywch at March 06, 2021 02:51 PM (Y/Ps0)

58 What kind of Hibiscus is that in the top photo?

Posted by: Surfperch at March 06, 2021 02:54 PM (Ax5Cx)

59 I just planted my seeds in their little starter pots within the last half hour. No movement yet. Two weeks or more until something comes up and two months until they can go into the ground. Sixteen tomatoes, twelve bells, red and yellow, and nine cayenne peppers, which are the best hot peppers, in my opinion. Cucumbers will get planted in the ground when it warms up in early May. Gardening is strange this year, because my dad died last winter and I would never have done any of it but for him. I came back here to help him and my mom with her last illness and stayed on. They had always had a garden and I sort of gradually took it over as he became less able to do the digging, weed pulling and picking. He never needed any help with the eating, though.

Posted by: huerfano, culturally appropriating at March 06, 2021 02:59 PM (DzhEB)

60 Pet NOOD is up

Posted by: Skip guy who says NOOD at March 06, 2021 03:03 PM (Cxk7w)

61 I have tried very unsuccessfully to grow peppers from seeds. But then don't have a lot of luck growing sweet peppers from plants. Hot peppers are the only kind of peppers I can grow.

Posted by: Skip at March 06, 2021 03:18 PM (Cxk7w)

62 Hot peppers are the only kind of peppers I can grow.

Me too, Skip. For some reason, my bell peppers turn out scrawny and puny-- ultimately not worth the trouble. Could be my poor watering habits.

But poblanos, jalapenos and anaheims? No problemo! That's good enough for us.

Posted by: JQ at March 06, 2021 03:23 PM (09wCi)

63 Hi KT. I appreciate seeing my old backyard landscaping in your post today. I hope some folks respond with before and after pictures of trees theyve planted. Sunny & 50s here on my Tennessee mountain today so I've been working outdoors. Thanks again for getting us through the gloom of winter with your nice outdoorsy posts and photos.

Posted by: Cumberland Astro at March 06, 2021 03:31 PM (d9Cw3)

64 North, I left Kyocera. That email address will bounce now.

Posted by: DeathBirdsFly at March 06, 2021 04:38 PM (V4K2K)

65 Peppers from seed want BOTTOM HEAT.

A heating pad or at least on top of the fridge, cover the container with plastic wrap to keep them from drying out until they sprout.

Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid at March 06, 2021 04:55 PM (n/szn)

66 /sigh I was all set up to start some seed stock left over from last year this morning till I opened the big metal popcorn tin I used to store all my left over seed stock from last year in and was shocked when water came out when I got it pried open.

All of it ruined, it even got into the ziplock bags (not sandwich baggies) and to top it off when I went by the local seed 'n feed they were out of everything. Bare corn and bean bins, nothing in the rows of jars they kept seed stock in except Bradley tomatoes. They said they *might* have something in next Friday.

Oh well, its still early by a month so its not a total disaster, yet.

Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at March 06, 2021 05:31 PM (qZdIZ)

67 That's either a heron nest or a heron nest.

I've been watching the snow patches disappear from the lawn. The daffodils and crocuses are coming up, which means I'll have to clean beds and cut down the deadheads this week.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at March 06, 2021 05:57 PM (/+bwe)

68 KT, I usually skip this thread. I don't grow anything; my fault for sure.

Your non-gardening thread is almost always outstanding, including today especially. So, a humble suggestion --

Add prepping to this thread. Gardening is about self independence, at a most basic level. You add prepping, and I bet the comments (67 as I type this) will soar.

Posted by: GnuBreed at March 06, 2021 08:03 PM (F0YaR)

69 GnuBreed at March 06, 2021 08:03 PM

Thanks for the input. We have had some prepping info. from time to time. Maybe need to step that up a little.

In the meantime, check out Pat*'s second comment at 2:09. Similar spirit resides among others.

Posted by: KT at March 07, 2021 12:02 AM (BVQ+1)

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