Specialty Gardening: Cottage Garden Seed Swap & Chat #26, 1 by dryad57

dryad57 wrote:
Whew! Y'all are BUSY! Neal, I remember last year we all seemed to be sprouting snaps at the same time, and were surprised that anything that seemed to be just a stick could survive! They eventually do sprout real leaves though...

As for the tobacco - I'd have said the same thing as Critter - they teach that in the Master Gardener class and that's the only place I'd ever heard anything about it, so I always tell smokers to not pitch their butts in a garden, and to wash their hands before gardening. Oh well - since I'm not a smoker, what the heck?

I got to see LeBug on Friday!!!! She lives close to my sis, turns out it's just about an hour away, so I swung down to spend a few hours with her before heading up to sis's house for the weekend. I won't blab personal stuff, but I will say her house is adorable, her seed starting arrangement puts mine to absolute shame, and her yard is, well - it's a botanic garden. I couldn't begin to tell you all the plants she has, how nicely they're organized, and how healthy they all are (yep, it's obvious even in the dead of winter...). She's a full zone south of me, so she's got things starting to pop up and show life already....sigh..... My entire yard, front and back, would fit into her front yard. Her yard really should be on a Garden Tour stop.

OK, I'm off to make note of what's sprouted and where the seeds came from so's I can let my fellow piggies know how well the babies are doing! I also got a shot of sis's new puppy - she got a little boy pembroke corgi - he's great! Her one year old pit bull thinks she got the puppy just for her - it's a hoot to watch the two of them play together. Tiny (the pit bull) will lay down and play tug of war with him (his name's Tater), and then get all excited and start chewing on his ear - but she really seems to understand that he's a puppy so her chewing ends up being just slobbering all over him. He's relentless - hangs off her cheek and ears with those little needle puppy teeth, and she puts up with all of it. Sorry this is so OT - here's a pic of the two of them playing and then I promise to shut up :-)