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Gardening, Puttering and Adventure Thread, March 15

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From Don in Kansas:

A few weeks ago it was -10℉. Yesterday it was 80℉. Perhaps it’s now spring, but I don’t quite trust the weather.

Anybody else have that kind of a weather swing?

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Edible Gardening/Putting Things By

From Nan in AZ:

Apricot Blossoms - So encouraging. Apricot varieties must be chosen for winter chill requirements in your area:

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Apple tree
Beans, Peas, lettuce, beets

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Locally, blossoms are fading on the almond trees.

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Puttering

Peak Lass 1:

Whenever you feel hopeless about the hate and ruin and sadness in the world, remember that the sun still rises every day, still draws long shadows on the fields, the birds still sing their little hearts out in the gold, and the spring flowers still push up through the hard earth to greet the light. Nature continues to perform her quiet daily miracles, and will always welcome us back to watch alongside her when it all gets too much.

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Adventure

Considered a trip to get an Austin Rose?

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With soft apricot-pink blooms and a fruit-laden fragrance, Evelyn (Aussaucer) invites admiration at every turn.

Named after Crabtree & Evelyn, the Massachusetts-based brand inspired by the romance of the English countryside, Evelyn captures the timeless beauty and charm of rural landscapes. Her fragrance, a unique blend of ripe peaches, apricots, and Old Rose, is best enjoyed near a pathway, seating area, or doorway, where it can gently greet you as you pass by.

Compact yet commanding, she thrives in full sunlight, adapting beautifully to a range of garden settings, whether as part of a border, a rose bed, or a feature plant. Her soft, romantic colouring and elegant form add a touch of calm and nostalgia, bringing a sense of peace and timeless appeal to your garden.

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Gardens of The Horde

Redbud, from Nan in AZ:

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I don't know what the yellow blossoms behind them are.

Anything going on in your garden?

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Hope everyone has a nice weekend.


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Week in Review

What has changed since last week's thread?
Gardening, Puttering and Community Thread, March 8


Any thoughts or questions?

I closed the comments on this post so you wouldn't get banned for commenting on a week-old post, but don't try it anyway.


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1 I’m off today!

Posted by: Eromero at March 15, 2025 01:18 PM (FuCE/)

2 Nooded!

Posted by: Eromero at March 15, 2025 01:20 PM (FuCE/)

3 Yay, Eromero!

Posted by: KT at March 15, 2025 01:22 PM (xekrU)

4 My guess on the yellow blossoms is forsythia, beautiful shrub this time of year.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 15, 2025 01:28 PM (T+ixL)

5 Tomato seedlings now have first 'true leaves' and peppers sprouted.

Outdoors: leaf lettuces have sprouted, but no peas yet.

Haven't decided which flower seeds to start.

Posted by: JQ at March 15, 2025 01:43 PM (rdVOm)

6 There's a solid mat of iris all along the deck. Deck needs replacing. Poor iris gonna get stomped, but no doubt it will survive.

Posted by: JQ at March 15, 2025 01:46 PM (rdVOm)

7 >>>Anybody else have that kind of a weather swing?

The reverse. Last week, mid 60s. Snow this morning.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 15, 2025 01:48 PM (IOiol)

8 Don, isn't Kansas awesome? Weather is a lottery.
Thank God we entered "dust storm" weather in the west and massive range fires around the state this week.

Maybe we will get flooding next week?

Posted by: BigSam at March 15, 2025 01:56 PM (gSkgG)

9 Don, isn't Kansas awesome? Weather is a lottery.
Thank God we entered "dust storm" weather in the west and massive range fires around the state this week.

Maybe we will get flooding next week?
Posted by: BigSam at March 15, 2025 01:56 PM (gSkgG)

Hopefully you guys avoid an infestation of locusts (AKA government employees).

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 15, 2025 01:59 PM (VNX3d)

10 Yes,that's how KS is. Tuesday is a high of 77 and sunny. Wednesday is a high of 47 with about a 50% chance of snow

Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 15, 2025 02:10 PM (7PR43)

11 71 degrees here east of Waco. Got maybe 1/4 inch of rain early this morning followed by dust. The cars are covered, and plenty of dust is still visible.

Posted by: Erik In Texas at March 15, 2025 02:12 PM (BNVTN)

12 We had a flurry of snow yesterday, followed by sleet, but it rarely sticks here in March . . .

The apple trees and the Asian pears are starting to break bud, and the Indian Plum is now in bloom, as is my early plum tree. So far it is a rainy spring, and my only concern is that there won't be enough sun to tempt the bees out to pollinate my plums.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 15, 2025 02:15 PM (D7oie)

13 My orchid finally bloomed! I'll try and send a picture next week. I amalways happyif I get them to rebloom. Work continues on the garden beds. I could start filling them but I am going to change them around a bit. The two tomato starts I got are growing nicely. I was able to check the plants inthe tubs out front. The two fig trees survived. Doesn't look like the berries did. I have more coming and these will go in the beds in the garden. I have a plum tree that refused to die and the rhubarb is alive. Gotta cover it up for tonight.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 15, 2025 02:16 PM (7PR43)

14 Wow, it's really windy outside.

Started a YUGE tray of seedlings (tomatoes, hot peppers, and flowers) and the zinnias have already sprouted and are under a grow light. I've got green zinnias and Persian Carpet zinnias, which are a lovely profusion of yellows, reds, and browns.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 15, 2025 02:19 PM (wRzao)

15 From Boise area: Lows 28-43, highs 45-63. We're having a cold wet spell - even possible snow coming - so I'm waiting on planting carrots and radishes.

Outdoors, garlic sprouts look strong. Crocuses fading, hyacinths just starting to flower. A hardy Johnny Jump-Up is blooming by the shed.

Last Sunday, we worked on further pruning our 2 old apple trees. Monday, we burned the spring burn pile.

This week, Husband worked on the riding mower, and repaired one of the outdoor mushroom-lights along the driveway. Today, I replaced a number of tomato, pepper, and marigold seeds in my starting trays that didn't sprout. I'll give the herb seeds another week.

I hand-weeded raised bed #9, and found a skull with half a jawbone! - presumably from a burrowing critter who died of poison. I may poke around in that bed some more, see if I find anything else.

We still have bunchgrass to cut down, more leaves to rake up, and the corn patch to till, but at least the raised beds are ready to go.

Posted by: Pat* at March 15, 2025 02:26 PM (3PXQT)

16 The winter was harsher than average around here; not record breaking but much colder and icier than usual with some nasty winds. But we are finally seeing some signs of spring (and it's about damn time).

-first robin sightings, usually a good month before now,
-daffodils popping up and the ones in protected areas are in bloom,
-wildflowers starting to peek through the grass,
-the tree buds are starting to swell noticeably,
-there is a stand of ornamental cherry trees that are always the first ones to blossom in our town and they are clouds of soft red buds as of two days ago.

Posted by: JTB at March 15, 2025 02:35 PM (yTvNw)

17 Oh, and the turkey buzzards are back, too. Sure sign of Spring.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 15, 2025 02:37 PM (D7oie)

18 Had a big gang of turkeys the other day -- 17 hens and one strutting blue-faced tom. Hope to see some turkey babies soon.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 15, 2025 02:42 PM (wRzao)

19 KT, Thanks for starting out the thread with those gorgeous daffodils. As I've said many times, they are my favorite flower for some reason. And the scented ones are wonderful.

Of course, the other photos are lovely. Since today is overcast with a chilly wind (good reading weather) and a chance of major rain storms tomorrow, those flowering plants are very appealing.

Posted by: JTB at March 15, 2025 02:43 PM (yTvNw)

20 Weather swings? Here in N IL it was 77 yesterday, they are calling for snow tonight. I think it was 3 days ago we frst saw the hyacynths peak through, now the tulips and crocus have popped up also.

Posted by: Farmer at March 15, 2025 02:48 PM (55Qr6)

21 Our little crepe myrtle may not have survived this winter with the frigid winds drying it out. We'll wait and see. If only a part survives, I might try to propagate that. Nothing to lose by trying.

The dogwood, all five feet of it, tye lilac and the Rose of Sharon look like they made it. That gives me hope for a pleasant backyard this summer.

Posted by: JTB at March 15, 2025 02:48 PM (yTvNw)

22 Springtime in Babylon DC. I've had a pair of Mourning Doves, who show up around this time of year and think about living in one of my empty flowerpots. They usually move on because I keep chasing them away. I really don't want them out there. I'm going to be getting my balcony garden ready soon. I'll need that pot. I can't grow anything edible out there, not enough direct sunlight. Balcony faces east. So a variety of plants that grow in the shade/limited sun and whatever weeds and stuff that blow in. Low maintenance plants.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 15, 2025 02:54 PM (sAmhv)

23 My peach tree is blossoming. Spring has sprung.

This year will be my first planned flower garden. I've always done vegetables before. Three weeks ago, I cultivated three of the five garden beds ahead of prepping the lawn. I will plant in mid-April.

Until I see how my three testbeds go, I will use potted annuals of various kinds in the two fallow beds.

In the other three, for the first one, I envision a row of swirled hardy hibiscus along the fenceline, fronted by mounds of purple, pink, and white petunias, with red ones erupting from the basket in the birdbath above those. This bed sits beside and partially beneath my crape myrtle.

Bed 2: a row of pink hardy hibiscus fronted by blanket flowers, and bracketed by hydrangeas.

Bed 3: golden day lilies fronted by Veronica border blues.

Of course none of this is likely to work. But this is the vision.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 15, 2025 02:58 PM (BI5O2)

24 I'm overdoing it on the tomato varieties again.

Green Tiger, Pink Fang, Thorburn's Terra Cotta, Delicious Hunt, Brandywine Red, Yellow, and Black, Sub-Arctic Plenty, Uluru Ochre, Green Giant, Orange Accordion, and Cosmic Eclipse.

Peppers include Habanada, Jalapeño, Fatalii, Mad Hatter, Lemon Drop, Banana, Nu Mex Suave, and Cherry Bomb.

What are you guys planning on growing?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 15, 2025 03:01 PM (kpS4V)

25 Just when I thought I was safe from further temptation, another seed catalog arrived in the mail. Sigh! So many dreams, so little time and energy.

Posted by: JTB at March 15, 2025 03:05 PM (yTvNw)

26 Whether it's this year or next, I would like to try one or two varieties of heirloom tomatoes. We don't need a huge crop for fresh eating. And researching what should do well in our area would be fun.

Posted by: JTB at March 15, 2025 03:09 PM (yTvNw)

27 What are you guys planning on growing?

Older and fatter.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle for festive little hats at March 15, 2025 03:10 PM (rzrsr)

28 The two tomato plants I have are a True Black Brandywine and Princesse Bourghese. The last is the tomato they use for sun dried tomatoes. Seeds are Sungold and Crimson Carmello from Renee's Garden

Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 15, 2025 03:18 PM (7PR43)

29 Looks like I kept some old seeds for Graham's Good Keeper and Santiam Sunrise. I might plant those too

Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 15, 2025 03:20 PM (7PR43)

30 All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 15, 2025 03:01 PM

Wow. Many of those I have never heard of. Bet some of them are new developments from old heirlooms.

Posted by: KT at March 15, 2025 03:31 PM (xekrU)

31 The Mister wants regular old Beefsteak tomatoes. I like Dr. Lyle and Stump of the World as main crop beefsteaks, Cosmonaut Volkov for early tomatoes, Chocolate Cherry for late tomatoes, SunGold and its orange hybrid for sweet cherries.

Indian Stripe and J.D's Special C Tex as Cherokee Purple types, a good oxheart and some of the yellow Wild Boar Farms tomatoes.

Posted by: KT at March 15, 2025 03:41 PM (xekrU)

32 The yellow blossoms behind the redbud is a caseia variety from Australia. We had native ones from the southwest when we lived in Tucson, but mom couldn’t find one of those when we moved to the Phoenix area…

Posted by: Nan in AZ at March 15, 2025 07:31 PM (y29sO)

33 Cassia, sorry misspelled it.

Posted by: Nan in AZ at March 15, 2025 07:40 PM (Mrjew)

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