They do look happy

So much for getting excited about garden season coming around. Went from bare ground with early tulips and hyacinth breaking ground to 3 nor'easters in a 3 week stretch. Guess I'll just have to wait. *sigh*



Go home, Old Man Winter, you're drunk!

He's definitely worn out his welcome....my oil man just left....his prediction is that this is it....warm weather will be here for the rest of the month....hope he's correct!

RobinD said:He's definitely worn out his welcome....my oil man just left....his prediction is that this is it....warm weather will be here for the rest of the month....hope he's correct!

Me too, I hope this is the end of the snow and nastiness for this season.

Heaven help our gardener friends in the northeast.
And if all that snow isn't bad enough - China's got an out-of-control space station falling to earth around April 3rd !
Better not hit my garden.

Oh boy

Have not heard that.....the garden doesn't need any more catastrophes...I have enough the way it is!

RobinD said:Have not heard that.....the garden doesn't need any more catastrophes...I have enough the way it is!

I didn't know that either. Darn!!!!

Mom has a lot of snow. She only lost power for a half hour yesterday. It's tough being so far away from my parents right now.
Wrong thread, lol

That's OK, Jumper...thanks for sharing the info about your parents...yes, it's tough when you are far away.....

Went to Walmarts for some tennis balls....ended up with dahlias & glads, & a few seed packets.....

Got 100 - 4" jiffy pots filled yesterday with my homemade seedling mix in the greenhouse. (1 gallon peat moss, 1 gallon vermiculite, 2 tbsp. dolomite lime, 1 tsp slow release organic fertilizer, moistened with a 1/2 gallon of water mixed with Mycorrhizae Inoculant Powder) Made enough to fill some larger pots for my egg plants and bell peppers. I think I am going to try and grow them in the greenhouse this year. They never seem to do too well outside. I think it's because we start dropping down into the 40's at night in August here in the Poconos. We'll see. Today, I have to measure for some more raised gardens outside the greenhouse. I'm running out of room! I'll get the wood from a local saw mill. I use Tamarack wood.....natural, rot resistant and cheaper than treated lumber from Lowes or Home Depot.

What organic slow release do you use? .. been using osmocote for decades .. organic would be better

Jobe's Organics Fast Start Granular Fertilizer with Biozome, 4-4-2 Organic Fertilizer Formulated for Seeds and New Plantings, 4 pound bag
I got it on Amazon, but they also sell it in Home Depot and Lowes


I have also used this one which you can dilute in water for feedings once the plants are growing
Jobe's Organics Vegetable & Tomato Fertilizer, 3-1-2 Water Soluble Plant Food Mix with Biozome, 10 oz Box Makes 30 Gallons of Organic Liquid Fertilizer

I'll have to look for it......good idea growing the eggplant & peppers in the greenhouse...nights tend to be cool here, & I never get much of a harvest from either......

Got 80 jiffy pots started today with 4th of July Tomatoes, Campari Tomatoes, Cherry Tomatoes (Rapunzel), San Marzano Tomatoes, California Wonder peppers, Black Beauty Egg Plants, Black Moon Egg Plants, Early Long Purple Egg Plants and English Lavender. Tomorrow I'll start planting flower seeds and, hopefully, the 3 types of fir trees I have had stratifying in my refrigerator for the past two months. AHHHHHHHH SPRING!

Wow...definitely ambitious....I thought of planting my eggplant...maybe tomorrow.....

Update on my cold frames after planting seeds 4 weeks ago....doing well.

The spinach and lettuce are growing fast, and you can see the scallions starting to make their move in the back. They are still small and thin so they are hard to see in the picture. They are about the size of blades of grass.



I thinned out the cabbage and Brussel sprouts last week and made a 2nd row of each. I have 15 of each and plan to move most of them out to the garden in about another month.

Looks great!!

Be over in a couple weeks for a salad