BS: Gardening 2010

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening 2010
From: Alice
Date: 04 Jun 10 - 01:33 AM

interesting hanging basket garden

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening 2010
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 04 Jun 10 - 11:06 AM

The only reason I finally have more plants in my house is because my cats have died over the last two years. I miss the cats, but I'm not getting any more. (The cats both adopted me, after turning up on their own, so things can change, but I suspect on this end of the village the coyotes keep the population down. I think I heard such an event in the middle of the night last week - the howling anger at the coyote barking suddenly stopped. I wasn't able to get to the back door to wave my high intensity flashlight soon enough to scare them off.)

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening 2010
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 05 Jun 10 - 12:02 AM

I did some contouring in the bed closest to the house, one where I've saved some space for late planting of smaller stuff. Onions, I think. I sprayed BT on various things in the garden. There were worms on the sunflowers. I don't plan to harvest them (the birds will enjoy them) but I don't need to feed the worms, thank you very much!

I picked two pink tomatoes. They'll be completely ripe in a couple of days. Summer is here! That old saying (or song lyric, whatever) is really right - there's nothing like home grown tomatoes (I know there is a mention of love in there also--it's sufficient for now to say that I love tomatoes!)

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening 2010
From: Bobert
Date: 05 Jun 10 - 08:32 AM

Frankly, I love to get back to just gardening... The P-Vine has been at it all week because we've had help and the two fo them moved or planted (from pots) somewhere around 60 plants... Mostly native azaleas...

I, on the other hand, have been stuck hand raking out the rocks and debris in "the pond field" where over the last year we have taken down an old hog fence and 15 of so nasty locusts and dug out and burn the stumps... There are some jobs that are so big that if you allow yerself to examine just how much work there are going to be then you just say, "Heck with it" and don't do them... This has been one of those jobs but yesterday I finished the raking (took 5 days) and shoveling rocks and debris into the tractor bucket (dozens of times), putting down grass seed (fescue) and 30 bales of straw (still need about 3 or 4 more)... But, after taking a long shower to get the straw mites (most of them) off me I went out on the patio with a cold beer and watched as a nice gentle rain settled in and was thinkin'...

...thank you, Lord, that this unpleasant project is over and thank you for the gentle rain to hold the straw down and get the seed a little moisture...

Now maybe I can get back to real gardening...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening 2010
From: Janie
Date: 05 Jun 10 - 09:23 AM

We have had an abundance of rain the last several weeks, and for the most part, comfortable temperatures.

Have had enough rain over a long enough period that the grass has actually been able to suck up enough of it before the trees get it all. It has turned hot and muggy. I'm tempted to just mow the sunnier spots and leave the rest alone. The grass doesn't grow that tall under the trees, and right now it has kind of a lovely, soft, look to it. It might even be good for it to be allowed to grow and go to seed. (Or maybe I'm looking for an excuse to minimize sweating in this humidity:>)

Day lilies are in various stages of bloom or putting up scapes.   Mater's doing well, but way behind yours Stilly. A few green tomatoes on the cherries, but the Mortgage Lifter is just setting it's first blooms. Will fertilize today, and do something about the slugs starting in on the basil.

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening 2010
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 05 Jun 10 - 11:20 AM

Bowls of beer, Janie. I think slugs and snails both will die happy in beer.

Supposed to hit 100 today. GOtta smear on the sunscreen and pace myself.

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening 2010
From: Alice
Date: 05 Jun 10 - 11:39 AM

I don't recall if I posted the link to the garden weeder I use... the best garden tool ever!

Grampa's Weeder

You stand while you weed, push the tool over the center of the weed, step on a lever and tilt the handle... it closes over the weed root and pulls it out of the ground. Info about the inventor and photo of the tool is at the above link. It takes out those tap roots like thistles and dandelions. Easy!

Alice

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening 2010
From: Janie
Date: 06 Jun 10 - 02:41 PM

Looks like a good'un Alice.

Bettynh, I forgot to add that he also referenced uneven watering. (although I have generally tended to be quite diligent about watering.)

Just got in from scrubbing all of the porch furniture now that tree-pollen time is well past. The furniture I have was passed down to me from my aunt - circa mid to late 60's. Can't find ready-made cushions to fit. No amount of scrubbing and hosing gets the cushions looking really clean anymore.

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening 2010
From: Alice
Date: 06 Jun 10 - 04:20 PM

No rain so far today, so I was able to mow again (add to the compost) and plant a few more things in the garden.

In my short season, high mountain zone, only a greenhouse can really get pumpkins or melons to grow enough to ripen. I have my little makeshift clear plastic mini-greenhouse over pots of bell peppers, squash, pumpkin and now cantaloupe. All but the cantaloupe have flower buds. So exciting!


Alice

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening 2010
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 06 Jun 10 - 05:35 PM

I spent two hours this morning (and it was already hot) hauling tree branches out to the curb for bulky waste. I wish there was an affordable way to just chip all of this on the property and use it right here, but chippers that are big enough for some of my limbs are way too expensive and wouldn't get used enough to make it worth while. Maybe if we could persuade the village to buy one, and make the circuit of the neighborhoods?

Ripe tomatoes on my windowsill. It's getting close to BLT time!

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening 2010
From: Alice
Date: 06 Jun 10 - 07:34 PM

SRS, you are lucky they will pick up branches!
A few years ago, our town stopped picking up any branch thicker than your thumb in order to save money. If you put smaller twigs and branches in a barrel by the trash can, they pick those up for city composting a couple times in the summer. Anything larger, each property owner is responsible for hauling to the landfill and paying for disposal.

Thunderstorms are moving in now, but I was able to mow the longest grass before the rain started. I also got another cantaloupe potted seedling at the local grocery store. They come from a supplier about a hundred miles away. I planted it under another makeshift clear plastic greenhouse.

June is my favorite month. The air here is perfumed with lilacs and apple blossoms and everything is brilliant green.

Alice

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening 2010
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 07 Jun 10 - 12:27 AM

This is a quarterly pickup, scheduled in advance and you have a day or two to get the stuff out there (they front on junk piled at the curb for a long time, but I don't see them write tickets). Fort Worth has gone to a system where you can pile the stuff at the curb and call and they'll pick it up within a week or two. And you have only so many calls a year you can make. I live near the Fort Worth drop off point, and use the water bill from my ex, who lives in Ft Worth, to take stuff over. Mostly just household recycling, and I could take that anyway (neighboring towns can take their household stuff there), but the other bulky things, they want a water bill to prove you're entitled to use the facility.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening 2010
From: Alice
Date: 07 Jun 10 - 11:42 AM

Rained starting late yesterday and is still raining.
We have night time temps in the upper 30's, so everything is
growing veeeerrrryyyy ssllloooooowwwwlllyyyy.

But all the town and the mountains are brilliant green (except for the snow upon the peaks)!


Alice

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening 2010
From: Bobert
Date: 07 Jun 10 - 12:57 PM

Another glorious 4/10s of an inch of rain here yesterday... That makes it 1.7 for the last week...

Last day before the last garden tour and we're zeroin' in on having things squared away enough to get away for a couple days afterwards...

Jeff, our helper, and I convinced the P-Vine that it's okay to use a weedeater in the woods gardens... Hooray!!! So I've been doing away with weeds at an astounding rate... Okay, I know that the weedeater doesn't dig them out but, hey, when ya' have this much garden ya' can't let "perfection be the enemy of the good"... Her finally seein' this is a major step for us... I mean, there are beds that do need actual weeding but not the entire garden... Like I said, "Hooray"...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening 2010
From: Alice
Date: 07 Jun 10 - 01:43 PM

Last year I had to have some commercial pruning done on some aspens. They are prone to a borer that kills them, so I had an arborist come and take out overgrown junipers and buggy aspens. They were chipped by the arborist and taken away, but I did continue to pile branches I pruned back in the alley by the trash can. I had at least 2 years of branches I'd pruned piling up there, and finally called the city to see why they had not yet picked up. Oh... they no longer do a pick up... that is when I found out I had to arrange for trucking it to the landfill myself. I called the arborist back and he added my branch pile to a load on his truck. He works at composting everything he can, so I was glad I could pay him to take the branch pile away rather than having to hire a trash company to take them to the landfill.

The local newspaper reported today that May was the coldest May we have had in 35 years... "temperatures ran 5 degrees below average. Early morning readings of 20 degrees on May 5 and 21 degrees on May 7 established new record lows for those dates".

Alice

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening 2010
From: Bettynh
Date: 07 Jun 10 - 02:33 PM

It seems we have the warmth you're wishing for, Alice. Father's Day is the traditional day for rose shows, but they're in full bloom now. So we're a full 2 weeks ahead. Local strawberries are ripe enough to sell in the stands, but not quite ready for pick-your-own.

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening 2010
From: Janie
Date: 07 Jun 10 - 08:58 PM

Gnu shared a link on another thread about low-maintenance lawns (Canada) that had some very good information that I thought worth posting here. (Thanks, gnu!)

mixed plantings low-maintenance lawns

Not only do I like it, it is basically what I have, compliments of mother nature.   I do wish my front yard could handle more wear and foot traffic, but it is a delicate environment under all those trees.

As I was googling for images of some of the grasses and plants listed in table 1 of the article, I stumbled across ecolawn images.

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening 2010
From: Alice
Date: 07 Jun 10 - 09:39 PM

Years ago I had Mother of Thyme and Yarrow escape from flower beds and spread through the lawn. I love the Thyme and encourage its growth throughout the lawn and hope it takes over more and more in the future. I'm not as crazy about the Yarrow, but it has spread through some areas and replaced the turf and I mow it along with the turf grass.

When the Mother of Thyme that is in a big patch of my front lawn blooms, I'll try to remember to take a pic and link to it.

A.

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening 2010
From: Maryrrf
Date: 07 Jun 10 - 10:23 PM

I don't worry too much about grass, flowers and shrubs. I mow the grass and trim the shrubs when necessary, but my main enjoyment comes from the vegetable garden. The lettuce is starting to get a little bitter from the heat, although the romaine is still tasty. I'm still harvesting the collards and kale that I planted in early spring. The potatoes that I planted back in March are now yielding little tubers, so tonight I had new potatoes with collards and kale, fried with onions and curry powder. Delicious! Everything is looking good - tomatoes, cucumbers, zucchini...all coming along nicely. I love summer! I posted pics on facebook - but here's a link.

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening 2010
From: Janie
Date: 07 Jun 10 - 10:30 PM

Yum! The link went to a blank page superimposed on a pretty, light blue background and said "Kodak Merchandise." Could you try again? I loved seeing pictures of your veggie garden over the course of the season last year.

Amazingly, to this fern neophite, the japanese painted fern is still sending up fiddle-heads!

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening 2010
From: MMario
Date: 08 Jun 10 - 11:58 AM

My potatoes need to be hilled - which since I am growing them in containers means dump in some more potting mix....

I've got several varieties of fingering potatoes, blue, purple, red, yellow and white; and some golden potatoes named "Esperanza" which I planted because that's the name of our street; Ditto another named "keuka Gold"

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening 2010
From: gnu
Date: 08 Jun 10 - 02:57 PM

Five 6" X 30" and one X 24" planters with 17 double impatiens. 13 more in seedling pots in two trays. Been keeping them near rhe garage in case of frosty nights (bad back) as the next full moon is June 26th and we could have frost up to 3 days after.

Yesterday afternoon, I transplated the 13 into hanging pots and I decided to put the long planters in the front flower bed... forecast for tonight pisses me off.

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening 2010
From: Alice
Date: 08 Jun 10 - 03:07 PM

I'm growing potatoes in pots, too, MMario. I have been gradually hilling them up in the pots with the old decomposed needles from under a huge spruce tree in my back yard.

A.

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening 2010
From: Maryrrf
Date: 08 Jun 10 - 03:25 PM

I'll try again on the link to my garden pics .

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening 2010
From: Alice
Date: 08 Jun 10 - 03:32 PM

Mary, great photos, good to see a healthy garden. Buddy is so CUTE!

I envy your longer season. If I can upload a few photos, I'll compare what a garden in high mountain Montana looks like on June 8.

Alice

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening 2010
From: gnu
Date: 08 Jun 10 - 03:35 PM

Love the dog pic... and the tomatoes. Nice!

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening 2010
From: Maryrrf
Date: 08 Jun 10 - 04:09 PM

What I find truly amazing is the transformation that takes place during the month of May. These pics are from May 1st. . What a difference!

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening 2010
From: Janie
Date: 08 Jun 10 - 04:12 PM

This time the link worked fine, Mary. Looks good! I think you have said before, but what are the approximate dimensions of your garden?


One thing that makes the thread so interesting is that we have such a diversity of climate zones represented that I get to read.

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening 2010
From: Alice
Date: 08 Jun 10 - 04:26 PM

Taken June 8, Montana, elev. 4810 ft., laptop shots, spring garden so far

The quality is not great, as I just used the laptop to take some pictures of some of what has grown in the garden so far.

You can see how small my peppers and pumpkin are compared to Mary's. The potatoes are just small leaves that have grown up from seed potatoes.

All of my vegetables are in pots or wooden boxes. The space is small. I am using very large clear plastic bags suspended over some plants as mini-greenhouses to keep the garden from freezing at night.

Alice

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening 2010
From: Alice
Date: 08 Jun 10 - 05:18 PM

I just updated that photo page with one from May when I was beginning to set up the pots and containers.


Alice

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening 2010
From: Bobert
Date: 08 Jun 10 - 09:02 PM

Wow, Alice... Yer way behind... Hope you actaully get somethin' to eat outta yer work...

Speakin' of eatin'... Picked a gallon of blackberries this afternoon after our last (HOORAY) garden tour... Some older folks gave us a contraption they bought about 40 years ago they never used that is for grinding the good stuff for making jam and it's got a cone shaped filter that catches the seeds... We'll try it in the morning and see what we get...

Them is some fine eatin' balckberries, tho... We've had cerial 3 of the last 4 days for breakfast just so we could top it off with them berries...

YummY!!!

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening 2010
From: Alice
Date: 08 Jun 10 - 09:22 PM

My raspberries are just starting to show formation of tiny buds.


Up here in the Rocky Mountains, we have a narrow window of opportunity to grow and harvest. Isn't it ironic... where I live has incredibly rich, deep topsoil, but the season is very short. The valley here is extremely fertile. It used to be called the Little Egypt of America back around 1900. Wheat Montana

Alice

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening 2010
From: Janie
Date: 08 Jun 10 - 10:22 PM

On the other hand, Alice, I bet you can have salad greens and cool weather crops all summer long, while our cool weather crops are done by early to mid-May, bush beans have a short season because they stop bearing in the heat by early to mid-July, and other long season crops are struggling to survive the late summer diseases so common here where we have long, hot, droughty and humid summers.

I don't ever have ripe tomatoes and cukes at the same time I have salad greens.

Brings home what a big continent this is, when Stilly is sweltering, I'm enjoying a "cold front" with temps in the mid-80's, and Alice and gnu are still warding against a late frost.

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening 2010
From: Janie
Date: 08 Jun 10 - 11:03 PM

Well, the mystery garlic appears to be good old fashioned garlic and not society garlic. The blooms are beautiful, though the foliage is not - ragged and bent. Guess I'll leave it alone, dig it in the fall, and if the bulbs are presentable, replant some of it to harvest next year.


Just saw a beautiful gray fox in the neighbor's yard. Thought it was a stray cat at first. Wonder if it is the same fox I saw off and on all last summer, but haven't seen since early last fall.

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening 2010
From: Alice
Date: 08 Jun 10 - 11:09 PM

Today on freecycle, someone in town was giving away California poppies... I got to the house too late to get any, but the story was that a moose had stepped all over them. Another aspect of gardening in the mountains ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening 2010
From: Maryrrf
Date: 08 Jun 10 - 11:10 PM

Janie, the dimensions of my garden are about 24' x 12'. We have a good long growing season here, but you're right about the heat and about not having salad greens, tomatoes and cucumbers at the same time. Speaking of tomatoes - I had my first tomatoes from the garden tonight. There were two little grape tomatoes that were ripe. They might have been better if I'd left them another day or so, but I couldn't resist. So I made a salad of some of the last of the romaine, dug a few baby carrots, added some dill, cilantro and parsley, and threw in the two little tomatoes along with some croutons, olives and homemade dressing. So I did get a little bit of lettuce and tomatoes together, but that lettuce will all bolt soon. Alice, it must be a challenge gardening with such a short season. Here if you plan it right, you can have a garden for most of the year. I plant salad greens in the fall and harvest into late January, then replant in early March and have lettuce, kale, swiss chard and collards till June - and in June the summer veggies like squash and tomatoes start to come in.

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening 2010
From: Alice
Date: 08 Jun 10 - 11:12 PM

Ha! Speaking of lettuce.... I didn't plant any. Oh, well.

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening 2010
From: Maryrrf
Date: 08 Jun 10 - 11:36 PM

You can probably plant it now, Alice. It grows fast! Try the mesclun, or the romaine.

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening 2010
From: Alice
Date: 09 Jun 10 - 12:12 AM

Yes, I know.

I didn't think we'd eat lettuce fast enough to make it worth it (just 2 of us), but my son told me today that if I planted it, he would eat it. I am still unemployed, so I was being careful about how many seed packets I'd buy and what I really wanted to spend all this effort on to eat.

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening 2010
From: Bobert
Date: 09 Jun 10 - 09:18 AM

Nice thing about lettuce is that if you have a garden cenetr that seels 'um by weight that you can get 20 cents worth of lettuce seed to feed an army...

Rain here to day and we've decided to put off making jelly until tomorrow and we're heading back into the hills in Wes Ginny and poke around... Plus, after putting together the grinder/juicer cantraption discovered that it has to clamp on a table so I'm gonna have to rig up something out in the barn...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening 2010
From: Maryrrf
Date: 09 Jun 10 - 10:14 AM

Oh dear, Alice, I didn't realize you were unemployed - sending good energy for another, better job. One packet of lettuce grows a lot, and it's easy to grow, as long as it doesn't get too hot. I have salads almost every night in the spring and early fall.

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening 2010
From: Alice
Date: 09 Jun 10 - 01:49 PM

Yes, lettuce is almost too easy to grow :-) I get tired of salads quickly and it tends to end up in the compost.

I guess I like the challenge of using my small space to grow things that are going to take more care, like the cantaloupe.


A.

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening 2010
From: Alice
Date: 09 Jun 10 - 01:55 PM

Mary, the job prospects are not promising, but I am putting together designs for letterpress printing like wedding invitations to be printed by a local printer. I have a blog, but still need to get more designs finished to put up the actual ordering web site.

My Letterpress Prints

I'm done with being a traveling sales person. My doctor advised me to resign that job.

Alice

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening 2010
From: Penny S.
Date: 09 Jun 10 - 05:24 PM

I haven't been posting because of the half done jobs, and the jungle growth, and realising that I cannot get as much done as I wanted.

One early job was establishing a herb bed. There's a lot of slabs in my garden, and between the patio and the main area was a line of soil one slab wide. Also, the path across this was in a low part of the garden where water collects after rain. I made a new path with secure steps at the midpoint across the garden, and took up a couple of slabs to make a square. The visible soil in the garden is compacted clay with flints, but under the slabs was good, if clayey soil, which, mixed with the sand from beneath the slabs, and some spent mushroom compost is looking pretty good. The herbs have taken to it really well, things which were just marking time at the old place, or in pots, have shot up lushly and are doing really well.

In the damp bit, I have started a hole which will take the old cold water tank as a reservoir, but this is currently occupied by two courgette (zucchini) plants in pots and an angelica in pot, waiting to be planted out elsewhere. I'm toying with the idea of putting the courgettes on the mushroon compost heap before I go away, and not putting that into the ground until much later in the year.

Today I worked on about a square metre of the compacted clay, digging it over, putting the compost under it, and buidling it up with the spoil from the hole, as well as a bag of bought topsoil (there was a hole at the spot, for some reason, partly because of digging out a flowering currant, but that can't have left the size hole there.) I've planted out some celery pplants in it, and tomorrow they will be joined by some leeks.

I've three bags of potatoes, two growbags of tomatoes, and a tower of pots of strawberries. Already eaten the firts of those - one plant needs identifying though - it was too tart.

I'm not going to grow from seed this year, but will buy plants in for other crops. Getting the soil right will take too long. The plants already here are all a bit thuggy and takeover merchants. Comfrey, periwinkle, London Pride, forgetmenot, and a geranium. All doing so well that the ground elder from next door isn't getting a look in. I'm rehoming as much as I can, and converting the comfrey to fertiliser. Though the bumble bees are busy on it at the moment.

Penny

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening 2010
From: Bobert
Date: 10 Jun 10 - 08:15 AM

Nice prints, Alice... If you can get ahold of enough domain names (I guess that is what they are called) then you'll get on Page One of Google... I don't know much about that stuff but my broghter is trying to get a cottage industry off the ground and that is what he has done allready...

Gardening???

Well, the poor neglected veggie garden and I are going to get reaquainted today... First order of business is weeding... Actually, I don't mind it... It's tilled soil and we have had rain so most of the weeds all but pull themselves... After that it will be time to finish planting the seedlings and various seeds...

The poor P-Vine got sucked into being a judge for the local garden club's flower show today... What a thankless job... I mean, these women in the club all think their flowers are the best and prettiest... Like I said, thankless... Half of Luray will be mad at her by tonight...

But, on the up side, she has been asked to speak to the Mt. Crawford (accross the mountain) about azaleas at their September meeting... That oughtta be fun for her... When I told her about the invite (which came via email) her initail reaction was, "What do I know about azaleas???"... Duhhhhh, let me guess... Sometimes she thinks that everyone knows what she knows... I had to convince here that she could do a fine job... The girl frets too much...

Okay, sun block and to the weeding...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening 2010
From: Alice
Date: 10 Jun 10 - 10:15 AM

Kat, they make not only cow pots, but also elephant dung pots!

I have not used them, but manure plant pots have been marketed for a long time.


Alice

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening 2010
From: Alice
Date: 10 Jun 10 - 10:18 AM

Bobert, one of the valuable things about my advertising sales job was that I learned a lot about SEO, search engine optimization, to help my ad customers build their presence on the web. That helps me now with my own site.

Went out with a watering can of hot water this morning to heat up the soil over seeds that still need to germinate. I recently planted more seeds, and the night temps here are still pretty cold. Hot water helps the germination time.


Alice

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening 2010
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 10 Jun 10 - 01:17 PM

Looks like the tomatoes I planted from the nursery aren't making as many flowers as last year. I'm pollinating every other day with the stuff for setting fruit, using a q-tip, not spraying on each flower (that's a waste).

I don't think I'm going to get any decent squash or zucchini. The boring worms are too pernicious. I have lovely basil and am getting peppers, and there are fruit finally on the eggplants.

I sprayed orange oil and hydrogen peroxide this morning. The orange oil for the red mites starting in on the tomatoes, and the hydrogen peroxide to try to head off any more fungal activity. Early blight is going full tilt out there. I'm working on making healtier soil also, and have started adding some epsom salts along with corn gluten meal and dry molasses.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening 2010
From: Alice
Date: 11 Jun 10 - 11:19 AM

It SNOWED!

dang it

It's about 9:15 am here, and I just came in from watering with hot water in the containers of plants in the garden, brushing snow and slush away. Good thing I keep the plastic protection over everything.
Anyone who did not have row covers on their garden plants in town lost a lot of their garden last night.

The north side of roofs still have snow/slush and there are patches of it in the yard and garden here and there, but it has mostly melted.
Only 39 degrees Fahrenheit out there.


Alice

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening 2010
From: Bobert
Date: 11 Jun 10 - 08:09 PM

Danged, Alice... Me thinks that you get the award for the most persistent/determined gardener... This is rediculous... The snow, I mean... It's the middle of June, for gosh sakes...

A long day of weeding here in the veggie garden... Gotta get some newspapers and straw down soon... gettin' old...

And 300!!!

B~