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Home & Garden > Spring is Around the Corner!
 

Spring is Around the Corner!




I
don’t care what the calendar says because as far as I am concerned it
is SPRING!! This happens to me every year--I walk into the Dollar Tree
in January and there are the displays of planters, bags of soil and
hundreds and hundreds of seed packets selling 4 for a Dollar! I approach
the rack telling myself I will only get 4 and I won‘t get vegetables
because of the disaster the last year and the first thing I pick up are a
packet of radish seeds BUT it does say ’good for container growing’!
And then a few here and a few there and before I know it I have 16
packets of seeds!!

Between the last post and this I think you have a pretty good idea that I love to grow things!



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYpgctRKNTQ&feature=youtu.be

In this slideshow--mainly because the pictures aren’t clear but wait until the flowers grow!--are, in the following order:

#1 Gladiolas, Bachelor Button, Petunias, Cosmos and California Poppy (to be planted this weekend.)

#2 Sweet William      #3 Forget Me Not        #4 Wildflower mix and Rose Queen

#5 Snapdragon          #6 Cosmos                    #7 Cosmos and Forget Me Not

#8 Radishes, Basil, Chives, Oregano, Cilantro, Parsley, Sage, Thyme, Dill, etc.

posted on Mar 5, 2015 8:15 AM ()

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I don't prefer temps over 78 so 80-something is a negative to me, especially if the humidity is up. I'd be heading back north if I was a snobird.
comment by jjoohhnn on Mar 6, 2015 5:56 AM ()
The good part is the humidity is low now!
reply by greatmartin on Mar 6, 2015 7:56 AM ()
I'm calling it spring on Sunday when we should finally break freezing for a daily high temp. After -15 and minus, minus, minus for months, 39 will feel tropical. I tell myself every year that I'm not a farmer, but every year I do what you do except that my planting area is 70 feet by 6 feet. Last year started out perfectly until the groundhogs ate the squash--plants, buds and all and the deer ate the poll beans, but I'm optimistic again this year (yeah, I'm an idiot sometimes).
comment by jjoohhnn on Mar 5, 2015 7:17 PM ()
Hey nothing wrong with feeding the animals!!
I won't tell you our temps have been in the 80s all week.
I am happy if ONE plant makes it! Today I bought more seeds!
reply by greatmartin on Mar 5, 2015 8:09 PM ()

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