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Mechwarrior
Location: Riverside,CA
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Tomatoes. 6 different heirlooms. 80F today. spring is here.
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Not fair! Spring isn't here until may 10th or there abouts.
I did plant about 20 more hanging baskets today though, in the greenhouse. It's snowing outside!
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Location: Zone 9 Sack-o-tomato, CA
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Heh heh! Spring in Chicagoland is when the snow melts and it's over 50 degrees. 80 degrees there means summertime!
In Sacramento, Spring is rung in by the bananas taking off and the Cranes flying North, with the temps in the 60's to 70's...I guess it's all releative to what you're used to. |
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Location: Dominican Republic
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The plant man came by today with his pickup full of orchids, bromeliads and roses - with a few other bits and pieces. So I had to buy a named white cattleya and 2 hot red/orange bush roses - the vandas were slightly muddy coloured but he had a huge variety of dendrobiums. I have already bought a dendrobium this week so can't justify another. My neighbour who is worse than me about orchids didn't know he was here - but shot off to see him once I told her he was here. Who can save us from this banana/orchid addiction?
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banana junkie
Location: sparta, tn.
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i took 9 canna seedlings out of their green house tray and potted them up in an 18 inch long pot. i have 11 more canna seeds waiting to sprout and i have 2 tx. mountian laurels poking their noses out the dirt. all these seed i got from xavier. all of these were planted a week ago. can you say WOOSA?. it is 60 * here today. unfortunately im not planting anything outside till the first week of may. i dont care how nice it gets out. after the freak freeze we had the last week of april last year, everything can wait an extra week. must be nice cassie for the plant man to come see you. id be in so much trouble..... wish we had one like that here.
. oh and i potted up shays orange bird of paradise that she got at the lawn and garden show. she 'hates' plants but "you cant have a white one and not have an orange one." this coming from someone who wants to constantly bid on nanas in the classifieds, and who has 2 crotons and now a b.o.p. LOL! |
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Four cuttings of Escallonia "Pink Princess". I just need one for my garden, so if they all take you might see the extras appear here for banana bucks or trade.
Here they are, just prior to going into my little indoor dome-house that I'm also starting veggie seeds in: |
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2nd winter growing indoor
Location: Northern Indiana
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Wife planted 2 hanging pot kits of strawberries plants, and I started 3 more pineapple crowns soaking, last week potted 3 blue spruce till they can be moved outside!
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banana junkie
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well if it wasnt raining so hard i would be outside instead of inside...today im gonna plant 30 strawberry plants i have. they will be planted in pots till i can get their bed ready( that will probable be in the fall.) i have to water nanas and feed them.was hoping to the weather was gonna be a little nicer i wanted to start taking the basjoos and others outside for a few hours a day. time to start getting them ready to go out in a month and a few weeks. so the heater in the den will stay off unless it gets to 50 *f in here. cant wait for spring.
p.s. got a hosta called fried bananas, got that planted today also. i have run out of room in the den, so i had to start putting plants elsewhere in the house. the issue with that is the cats. oh how they love dirt. so i remidied the problem....lots of cyanne and black pepper on the plants and on the dirt. if they get past that im at a loss...LOL!
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i finally got my 12 ft. climbing peace rose back into the ground after 2 days of rain. i dug up an old rose bush that wasnt doing well. and i planted 12 cannas after i cleared the ground and turned the dirt over. the new bed where the cannas are is about 4 ft. wide by about 4-5 ft. long. they are on the top part of the bed and my mi. roses are at the bottom. the bed slopes down a hill. i hate it when you have a nice pretty flower bed and the grass weeds pop up right in the middle of it. tomorrow before class i will plant: ee bulbs, dahilas, cannas and a peony( that have to relocated from another part of the yard) and a few other things. im really hoping my cherry tree didnt die( if it did die i will be planting a crabapple tree in its place.i love eating crabapples,yummy!) its funny the things we plant. i love cherry blossoms, but i wouldnt eat a cherry for any thing. i guess i do it to feed the birds and for the blossoms. i might raid my moms yard for some raspberry bushes this weekend. i like their fruit. lol!
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Way to go Mskitty! Are you taking or teaching the class?
Today I planted 12" x 12" x 1.5" square stepping stones vertically along my chain fence line, about 8" deep. Those pesky wabbits have been digging under the fence this winter and I'm canceling their visas! ![]() |
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banana junkie
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im taking the class, its intermediate algebra. i have to get up early so i can get this stuff planted. i have to go see the math tutor at 12 pm. and then i have math class at 4 pm. as far as the rabbits, get an outside cat. that will take care of the wasscle wabbits. there are a lot of cats at the animal shelter who need homes.
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Hermitian Operator Location: NW San Diego, CA
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In my area, outdoor cats and small dogs are easy prey for the coyotes. The rabbit population is flurishing because (1) people feed them and (2) the coyotes have learned domesticated animals are easier to catch.
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banana junkie
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cookie there are very few things that do gross me out.my mom gets ill at me and my dad, we talk about all kinds of things( gross stuff to other people) and my mom smacks both of us in the head. lol. and yes easy prey for coyotes are domesticated animals. there are humane traps that you can get and set. then you have to take them off and let them go. thats the only suggestion i have unless you get a really big dog.
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today i removed 3 cannas i grew from seed(2 are 3 inches tall and 1 is 1/2 in tall) from their little gh and planted them in a pot. i planted 10 dinnerplate dalhias, 3 picaso cannas, and 10 ee's. all of these were planted in the new flowerbed in the front of the house. all thats left to plant out front now are my nana trees. there will be 2 d.oroniocos and my new cavadish dwarf.
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beefsteak tomato, couliflower, cherry tomato, cucumber, sweet Banana pepper, cabbage, broccoli, and acorn squash |
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