Welcome Linda_Iowa

Hi--I am a new member myself and still finding my way around this site--Lots to do and LOTS of great people to meet--I still have to find out how to get a seed and plant list posted !!! Hope to see you around here alot-us 'Iowegians' have to stick together you know!! Email anytime!
WELCOME !!!!
Jeanette

Another Iowan! Hurrah!! I was going to welcome you yesterday and got side-tracked. So a big welcome coming to you on Day #2 in you DG life! Hope to see you around the forums and meet you at a RoundUp (a Dave's Garden member get-together).

Do you know any of our other Cedar Rapids members? They're getting enough members they're going to demand to host the 2006 RoundUp, right, gals?

Please tell us about your gardening interests and post any pics you have taken. WE LOVE PICS!!!
Laura

Welcome Linda and Jeannette. Hope to catch you around the forums from time to time. It looks like our gardening weather is gone for the year, so it's computer time!!

Getting the last of the tulip bulbs in the ground, Shirley, THEN gardening time is over! lol

It's kind of nice to not have to work outside all the time. I needed the break, but the leaves are gaining ground fast now, so I'll still have a couple of days of mowing to do, hopefully before too long. Just wish the sun would shine.

Oh Happy Day, Another Iowan has joined Dave's Garden. Kooger is right, Cedar Rapids is becoming a greenhouse for sprouting new gardener seedlings. I wonder if our friend Wanda has anything to do with it?
Welcome to Dave's Garden Linda, the friendliest, most fun and educational gardening spot on the Internet. Pull up a comfortable chair and join in the conversations that go on in the many parts of the garden, you'll spend many hours with us here.
Iowaron

PS: Go to your calendar now and make a note "IOWA ROUND UP MAY 7, 2005"

http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/430120/

Thanks for all the kindness all of you. Yes, much of my gardening success has to do with my friend Wanda (wandasflowers). I'm afraid I don't have any pictures to show you. My computer skills are lacking so I don't know how to drop in photos (yet), but I will learn! I like daylilies and iris, and many other perennials too, but I'm not as crazy as Wanda!!!!! lol. Thanks again, Linda.

So glad to hear that - we would definitely be worried if you were crazier than Wanda!! LOL

Don't listen to Linda--she IS as crazy as me--just has a smaller lot! Ha Ha

Linda and I raised our daughters together & were co-Girl Scout leaders for years. We have chaperoned trips, sold tickets & worked at inumerable PTA events together in the past 14 years.

And don't let her fool you--she finally inventoried her yard & started Excel databases for iris & daylilies. Just ask her how much grass is left????

Okay, I'll bite and ask the million dollar question... How much grass is left in your lot, Linda???? lol

OK, in the backyard there is SOME grass. SO FAR I've resisted the temptation to expand to the front yard, well very much anyway! Maybe next summer! And thanks to Wanda who showed me an easy way to remove sod so I don't have to ask my husband to do it - it just happens when he isn't looking!

Welcome, Linda and Jeannette!! OK, I need to know Wanda's easy way to remove sod. Have lots of grass that's going in the spring!!
Deb

I like damp days to cut thru my clay. I cut in a line about a foot out from the edge, then slip my shovel between the grass roots & the dirt. The sod comes off in big hunks! I throw the hunks into the back of a bed, a low point, or one of Walker's holes. If my DH catches me , I tell him I'm merely creating a clean 'edge" for mowing! LOL

I keep telling Linda that her front border is too narrow---her neighbors have NO IDEA what she has been up to in the back yard! LOL

Oh and one thing Wanda didn't add is that the easiest way to do this is with a shorter handled shovel and either get down on your knees or sit on the ground - much easier from this angle than standing!

Welcome from another Midwest state :)

Linda's garden is close enough for me to raid. Just take the Hoover school walking path and over the fence....

I wanted to run off with one of her fountains, but I figured her DH would know who did it. Then , she'd start raiding MY garden!

Jeanette
Welcome from Pakistan.
kaleem

Raiding Wanda's garden? Now I never thought of that, but I usually do know when she's out of town!

Hi Kaleem-whats it like in Pakistan?? What growing zone are you in?? I am in zone 5 here in Iowa. Hot summers and long cold(-20) winters--last year we had two 36 inch snows back to back--not looking forward to that again!!
Talk to you soon
Jeanette

Jeanette
I am living in zone 9b, no snow I mean never snow but sometimes verry big size yaling. In sumer temp. goes to 45 and in winters near to zero. But I like summer because in summer we have a lot of rains and thst is my favorit part of the year.

Kaleem, I imagine your temps are measured in Celsius? Your summer of 45 would be 113 degrees for us. In Iowa, winters can be -20 Fahrenheit and that would be -29 Celsius for you!

The weather in Nebraska is the same as Iowa. Cold winters but I have also seen several summer days (over the years) with temps of 106 degrees.

Linda--you too? Behave or I'll send them all a map to YOUR garden. You gotta watch that Lily paoching Des Moines gang.

Awaysweeding? We may need your greyhounds to chase down the looters!

hello from upstate new york