Specialty Gardening: Join Us! Seed Swap Seed Starting & Conversation #10, 1 by dryad57

dryad57 wrote:
Hi Everyone!
Sorry it I've been gone for so long - things have just got so wild and woolly for me here I've not had time to think straight - three more potential new clients, existing clients wanting to "get going", another family crisis, a doctor who thinks I need every test in the world since I turned 50 last year, and working on that video surveillance setup for the veterinarian friend of my sis (the vet, by the way Suzy, is just outside Austin, IN on Slab Road...). At least most of the taxes got done and filed! Mine are on extension, so I've still got to face those sometime soon just to get them out of the way.

I felt an aftershock of that earthquake, but slept right through it. Growing up in California, you sorta know what they feel like...give you a bit of an adrenaline boost!

Tuink - I can't believe your weather is so dry!! That's just plain unfair.

As for tracking seeds from others that didn't germinate - I place the blame on myself. I specifically held onto them and then put them in those square peat pots, and they didn't germinate because I couldn't keep the water right. A couple actually did germinate that surprised me - like the Wallflowers - but not much else. I'm going to give them another try in a couple days.

Here's a pic of the inside of the GH - everything you see on the shelf is from seeds from the Piggie Swap - poppies, violas, canna, tansy, petunias, you-name-it. I've got to put up some shade cloth today or tomorrow to cut down on the heat in there.

Lea - I'm afraid I have very bad news for our planned get-together this weekend, I have to bag on you and the rest of the girls. I'm so swamped I forgot to take care of some sales tax issues with the state and actually had a warrant out for my arrest - got that cleared up Monday morning so I can at least not worry about going out in public! I really do want to make it down to see you though, and to help with what I can in moving and replanting stuff, but I'm afraid the next couple of weeks are going to be just as wild and crazy as the last few. Mea culpa my dear friend - I'll make it up to you and Lou and Suzy the best I can!!! (Veronica had to take a rain check, she had double-booked herself.)

Feel free to nail me for being a poor planner!!!!!