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Post by carolyn on Mar 6, 2018 20:50:48 GMT -5
Planted more hanging baskets. took a few cuttings....I winter over a few geraniums and begonias to take cutting from.
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Post by brownrexx on Mar 7, 2018 8:15:12 GMT -5
I would love love LOVE a sunroom with a hard surface floor so I could have my house plants where I could enjoy them When we built our house we had a rear deck with a roof attached to the house and we rarely used it due to lots of wind and flies so several years ago we called the builder and had him turn it into a sunroom. Hubby can do tile work so he saved us a lot of money and installed a beautiful ceramic tile floor with heat underneath. This is our favorite room in the house and we sit out there every day. This is the room where I start my tomato plants and I like sitting out there with them as they are growing.
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Post by ahntjudy on Mar 7, 2018 9:28:06 GMT -5
Just shoveled the first almost couple inches of slushy stuff... Will make shoveling the deeper stuff later easier... I love snow!...Always did...I'm like the kid who never wants to come inside...
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Post by carolyn on Mar 10, 2018 20:44:11 GMT -5
cleaned and disinfected the next greenhouse. filled a few more hanging baskets, watered a few, mixed a new batch of fertilizer up, moved all the baled of baccto into the greenhouse.... Maybe this Fall I will be more organized and get this work done before the Winter comes.
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Post by paulf on Mar 11, 2018 21:28:09 GMT -5
We just got home from a visit to Maple Grove , Minnesota (Minneapolis suburb) to watch our 8 year old hockey player play the final four games of the year. She scored a couple of goals and skated for several hours. Her intensity needs to go up a notch, but nobody messes with her. Several times she should have been in the penalty box for slashing, tripping and knocking some of the opponents around if they got in her way. Lots of fun to see a bunch of eight year old girls get physical. Nothing beats Minnesota hockey.
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Post by hairymooseknuckles on Mar 11, 2018 21:38:51 GMT -5
We woke up at 5am and sat straight up out of bed. High winds were rocking our MH. I told my wife I left my mater babies outside on the table. She ran out and put them up for me! Yea Wife!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2018 21:47:07 GMT -5
Labeled my blueberry jam and put the jars away - all sealed, yea! Did a little bit of shopping, and also gave away a couple jars of the blueberry jam to neighbors.
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Post by mgulfcoastguy on Mar 11, 2018 22:12:33 GMT -5
Dealt with replacing the dead television, looked at the plants, discussed planting scheduling with Dad.
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Post by brownrexx on Mar 12, 2018 9:35:23 GMT -5
Some of you may know that my hubby does house flips for a living and that I help out part time. He bought a house Feb 1 that had been empty for about a year and has started to work on it. Two weeks ago he removed a big squirrels nest from the chimney and a squirrel ran up out of the chimney and right by him in the process! That's a little scary when you are on a tall extension ladder. There were no babies in the nest thankfully and he disposed of it.
On Saturday we were at the house when the next door neighbor came over and told us that she had seen the mini blinds moving the day before and thought that we were there. She was ready to wave to us when a squirrel looked out at her from inside of the house!!!
Oh no, squirrels can cause a lot of damage and we definitely don't want some poor squirrel trapped in there anyway so we went in and carefully looked around. No sounds, no tracks, no chew marks, nothing but a couple of things from the kitchen counter were on the floor and we knew that we didn't put them there.
The neighbor was dressed up and on her way to a funeral but said that she had a live trap that she could dig out of her shed later and lend to us.
This morning hubby is at the house setting up the trap with some peanut butter. I hope that we catch this little critter.
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Post by september on Mar 12, 2018 22:32:23 GMT -5
A squirrel in the house unattended can do lots of damage. Some friends have a lake home nearby that they stay in 6 months of the year, and they spend the other 6 months in their Arizona home. One spring when they got back here, they had all kinds of chew damage on interior window frames from a squirrel that had gotten in, but not out while they were gone. I don't remember if it was still alive or not.
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Post by carolyn on Mar 13, 2018 19:12:55 GMT -5
worked in the greenhouse today. finished the rest of my hanging baskets (300 of them). potted up the patio tomatoes, checked my seeds and found I had let two trays dry out, eek! I sure hope they are okay. got a packet of rosemary in the mail yesterday so I put them on a heat mat today. I started 500 seeds. hopefully I have at least 100 when I am potting them up. these are the hardest and stingiest seeds to grow. such poor germination.
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Post by meandtk on Mar 13, 2018 22:19:51 GMT -5
I looked out and dreamed of what I hope to do in the garden Thursday. I've a busy week until then.
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Post by ladymarmalade on Mar 14, 2018 11:10:25 GMT -5
I looked out and dreamed of what I hope to do in the garden Thursday. I've a busy week until then. Yesterday's newspaper headline! It's my motto for 2018.
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Post by bestofour on Mar 14, 2018 12:50:59 GMT -5
It's too cold and windy to do anything outside today.
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Post by meandtk on Mar 14, 2018 14:54:07 GMT -5
ladymarmalade, I'm still dreaming...today I drove 105 miles to Baton Rouge, bought a used 2008 Toyota Avalon to use for my pastoral driving (Which is different from driving in a pasture ). Tonight I preach the last of three nights at a church I was once pastor, then tomorrow is my garden day!
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Post by farmerjack41 on Mar 14, 2018 21:24:01 GMT -5
Put another layer of composted manure on the garden. As soon as the ground dries a little more, will till it in. Maybe in a month can start planting.
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Mar 15, 2018 10:13:02 GMT -5
So far, not that much, but I did uncover the plants I protected from last night's frost, then walked the garden checking for damage - everything is fine. And I am washing and drying the tablecloths that I used for plant blankets overnight.
I've got a sick kid (just a cold) home with me today, which is putting a little kink in my plans. But I'll get outside again in a little bit.
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Post by bestofour on Mar 15, 2018 13:54:41 GMT -5
Too windy here to do much of anything outside so I'm watching my grand daughter play softball at her college live online. Way cool.
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Post by ladymarmalade on Mar 15, 2018 14:46:03 GMT -5
DD and I walked over to our new yard and plotted the garden expansion. DH had been muttering about needing to take some trees down for my grand plan, so we went over to confirm and selected a spot that will not require the removal of any trees. Only some lawn, which will please him because it will be less to mow.
Submitting another round of paperwork on Saturday. Right now it's totally a waiting game and I'm trying so hard to be patient. Once we get the green light for sure, there is a ton to be done, but in the meantime... I'm just going crazy making lists in my head and plotting.
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Post by carolyn on Mar 23, 2018 19:31:48 GMT -5
filled flats and transplanted broccoli and petunias. watered hanging baskets and seedlings.
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Mar 23, 2018 20:09:16 GMT -5
I planted some more peppers and did odds and ends in the garden. Found a couple of ripe strawberries and ate them straight off the plants. This evening, we took my in-laws out to dinner as a late anniversary gift (their anniversary was Tuesday). So it has been a nice day today.
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Post by tomike on Mar 27, 2018 14:21:27 GMT -5
I actually started sowing my tomatoes today and will continue tomorrow. By the looks of things, I should end up with close to 60 varieties this year. Peppers have been in the growing medium for a few weeks now and the germination rate is not all that great......
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Post by september on Mar 27, 2018 14:51:39 GMT -5
Moved some sprouting pepper cells from the heat pad in the basement to an upstairs sunny window. Checking every 3 or 4 hours to see if any new ones are up. Don't want to start up my light stand until at least half of them are up. Mostly because the shelves under the lights are catch-alls most of the year and currently full of stuff that I have to find space for elsewhere!
Worked on my tomato list - I think it's about finalized. Will start making name labels (printing by hand, on cut up opaque plastic milk containers) and get as many planted today as I can. I think I have fewer actual named varieties than other years, but there are several projects where I am helping others with multiple selections from the same generation so total number of plants I end up with probably with not be any fewer.
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Post by carolyn on Mar 27, 2018 15:05:11 GMT -5
Started new california bell peppers. grr. none of them popped up. I think I put too much vermiculite on them. instead of preventing them from drying out too quick they molded. not just them but a few other varieties too. live and learn. I do not like vermiculite. I think it contribute to damping off, too.
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Post by ladymarmalade on Mar 27, 2018 17:26:17 GMT -5
Spring Break from dance this week, so today we took in a movie. After much deliberation we ended up at Peter Rabbit. What a great family movie! It was funny, and sweet and dang if I don't want Mr. McGregor's garden!
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Post by pepperhead212 on Mar 27, 2018 18:05:55 GMT -5
I got my starting mix mixed today, and I filled all of the pots I need for planting seeds in, and the ones the pepper sprouts will be transferred to. And I got that tray set up in which I sprout the pepper seeds, filling the 20 rows with vermiculite, underfilling them a little, so 1/4" can be put on top, then moistened. I also got my trays (serving trays, not plant trays) lined with spice cups, to soak seeds in, which gets done Sat. night, followed by the planting Sunday morning.
I also cleaned up the workshop more, but still doesn't look like it! lol
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Post by pepperhead212 on Apr 1, 2018 23:12:48 GMT -5
I got all those tomato, pepper, and tomatillo seeds, that were soaking overnight, started! Now, it's waiting... I also made my bean planter! And cleaned up a bunch of branches out there (as best I could do) that had blown down. And I raised a section of trellis - CRW that I usually grew beans under, but they're going under the flimsy stuff that collapsed under the weight of those huge tomato plants last year (won't make that mistake again!), so beans are going there. And since the SIPs will go by this trellis, no sense having it on the ground. I have a longer - about 35' - section that I will have to get a friend to help with. Definitely a two man operation, even in good shape!
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Post by bestofour on Apr 2, 2018 18:43:03 GMT -5
I went out and looked at the radishes and carrots. I so want to start tomato seeds but it's too early.
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Post by guruofgardens on Apr 2, 2018 20:22:21 GMT -5
I transplanted the end of the peppers (finally!) and planted all of the tomato seeds. I need more grow light space.
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Post by farmerjack41 on Apr 2, 2018 21:41:17 GMT -5
Planted a 60 ft. double row of carrots. Tried to get ready for a cold night, they are saying maybe as low as 22. The wind machines will be running hard to protect the fruit orchards tonight.
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