Plants have grown and I'm getting claustrophobic!!!!

Count down to taking off the wraps.... our last frost date is April 8 and I simply can't wait!!! The plants are too big and I'm claustrophobic!!!!

Click here for pictures of my wrap-around porches wrapped in poly to winter-over some of the plants, but there are still too many inside the house. http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/468890/

25 days to go......

Is anyone else feeling CLAUSTROPHOBIC?????

Trapped in the house still, except for a few trips to the greenhouse. It just keeps snowing here in Ohio. and the temps will not warm up, cabin fever has set in and my hubby is ready to lock me up says i am pacing like a caged animal GRRRRRRRRRRRR. I look at all the pic's on DG and wish I lived somewhere else right now. I need sunshine and lots of it even the plants in the greenhouse are yelling at me for sunshine.

Everyday that it warms up over 50, I am out there in it. I'm chomping at the bit to be let out of my stall. LOL

Yesterday it was about 70. I worked at a friend's house helping her get ready for a plant sale. Then her husband cut down a large disease tree so we hauled the debris to the roadside.

Today, we're lucky to see 50! OOOOSH, too cold for me! But my friend showed up with her husband and his chainsaw and they cut down one of my diseased trees and we hauled the debris to the roadside.

Now, while i'm stuck inside, I still have my hands in the dirt. I have tons of peat pellets and I'm starting some seeds. I've sown 144 tomatoes in many varieties, and I still have ten varieties to sow. I also started 72 pepper plants--all sweet, bananas, California Wonder, etc. And I still have all the hot peppers to start, at least 72. Today, I'm sowing a few different gourd seeds. I haven't grown gourd before, so this will be interesting.

But to be quite honest, I haven't yet gotten dirty enough. Come on spring!!!

NancyAnn

nancy Ann, I already started hot peppers for my daughter the hotter the better got them in a seed swap, i don't know what I am growing at this time just that I am LOL. She makes hot pickled peppers , salsa, and dries them also for her Chili etc. should be fun for her LOL

I think O know what you mean with the CLAUSTRIPHOBIC. my GH is all but full. And now all these mators , peppers, moon flowers, hibiscus, begonias, ect.

more claustrophobia......

Check out the aloe in bloom.

Oh Gracious!!! It's beautiful!!! Deep breath, take it easy you can wait it out!!

sorry wrong pic, thats the mandavilla.

here's anothe plant that is a little farther along in the bloom.

Oh RB, I am so jealous, put me a cot in your GH I am coming to sleep there and ejoy all you plants just wonderful.

No kidding RB what a wonderful place to go hide.......

rb250, I wouldn't mind getting clautrophobic in there. That is one fabulous greenhouse. Wow, you even have a bloomstalk on your aloe, amazing! Spring is almost here, really it is.

But it's the last leg of the trip that's the worse!!!!!!

u can say that again!

here in the upper desert, immediately after Easter Sunday, snow will fall out of the clear blue sky. Easter Sunday is my normal gauge that Spring [March 20] is here, then be suddenly surprise with frost or if not snow on the ground. i hate that when it happens. the worst is not knowing when it will happen or will it ever happen! the other day, was a nice sunny day. i believe the daytime high reach 86ºF. store clerk at the grocery was telling his customers not to be fooled by the nice sunny weather cuz last year, he lost lots of fruit trees and plants due to sudden burst of snow on the ground overnight ... from the upper 80ish, the temperature the following day drop down to 10ºF, sad but true!

the cold weather is driving me nuts and that really is a short putt, I just had to get dirty today, so I transplanted four of my house plants that helped for awhile but only made the craving worse to get out and do something, so I think I will take my 18 month old grandson outside and teach him to make mudpies. I think we casn get really dirty that way LOL

Me and by babies......

are fixin' to go find another one of these

LOL

They look like they are having sooooo much fun. I'll bet you had lots of dirty towels when they got done. Dotti

You are not going to believe my DH was outside with them when they found the mud hole, instead of getting them out of it, he sneaks past me to his camera, then when he's finished taking pictures, he and this nasty crew come barging in the back door..... He did run them around the yard a bit so they weren't soppin' wet, but you have never seen such a floor. I made them all go back out the door to take outside showers. I laid 10 old sheets on the back porch by the door and they wallowed around until they were dry .... DH also. They had more fun showering down and drying off..

He is the most wonderful person you will ever meet, his one fault being he's a slob.. lol lol

This is a picture of Peanut, the star of the family, we've even written childrens stories about him and he has his own website. www.peanutbulldog.com Actually they are stories for all ages. Take a peak you will enjoy them. There is a MudPuppies episode. lol lol

PS We've given permission to two schools to use his website in their remedial reading classes,.... cause everyone loves a puppy!!

Well those are just captivating. Peanut is a doll.

Judy, Your Peanut story is a treasure. The pictures are wonderful! I am sending your site to a friend who has two bull dogs. His web name is Bully and a most delightful person and a story teller in his own right. He has two young daughters and tells stories to them every night when he tucks them in. I am sure they will be hearing about Peanut as well. Thank You for sharing this and all the other good things you share with us. You are a "treasure!"
Gary/Louisville

Gary, please encourage your story telling friend to write out his stories, there isn't enough "goodness" in this world. We will be glad to assist in creating a website for them.

I think Judy needs to give us some inside pics of your jungle LOL, your house is lovely judy. I have no idea when our last frost date is, and is it really that last one. when they say it is

It's too cold to work outside today and there is a good chance of rain for the remainder of the week, although the temps are suppose to be higher.

Confession time... yesterday I went crazy taking to the compost pile all those cuttings and pots of things I've nurtured all winter but there they sat in the same condition as when I started. It was down to the wire .......me or them!!!

I feel like a NEW woman!!! I have some BREATHING room.

Kathy_Ann (lol lol) I would have to clean everything up to take pictures, it is not tidy. I saw pictures of your greenhouse over on the Brug Forum, so clean!!

23 days and counting......

Judy

Ha! you only saw what I wanted you to see LOL

kathy

I just received an email that this thread had been moved from General Discussion to Garden Talk by Terry

Judy

Hi Judy, Well here in Ohio finally got two beautiful days, today is sunny and 62 and I am dirty, stinky, and sweaty I worked all day on by beds and even pulled lots of weeds Oh what a beautiful day didn't think it would ever get here gardening at last YIPPIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE. Aw the smell of being dirty is a sure sign of Spring lol.

JoAnn

It's wonderful weather here also..... I'm cleaning up the yard and trying to decide where to build raised beds, to many Bullies and "strays that came to stay" to put anything else in the ground. I'm tired of fighting them over where they choose to dig themselves out a bed.

If I could only unwrap the porches ..............

Judy

Lol Judy, I just bet you are anxious to unwrap that porch and get things going won't be long now but as they say Patience is a virtue and I am a sinner I have no patience. Hang in there

JoAnn

better not be too impatient... last week/month we were in the upper 80's. the past 2 days we are only the lower 40's for daytime high! at the rate temp is souring down again, there is good chance of sudden snow, at least in my area. this is about the time of the year that weather really gets too wacky!!!

hi MaVieRose I can understand what you are saying about temps this time of year you just never know.

I went to 2 other threads today about spidermites and I told them about you and the Tea Tree oil I wish I could remember which one they were, actually I started one a while back and I think it was refreshed with someone asking the same question. I told them I was going to try it and gave them your recipe hope that was okay.

JoAnn

In coastal Northern CA we get spring starting in mid-January so we are about half over right now. Had a brief warm spell that opened a lot of flowers but a rainy system has come in again (which is good because I didn't want to water again anyway!). So here's a picture of spring in progress to relieve all that spring fever everyone seems to have.

Here's a photo I just took a few hours ago of the frontyard garden beds. In the center front are orange CA poppies (not open because it's so cloudy) mixed with yellow freesias. Growing down the retaining wall on the right are several trailing lantana plants which flower all year long, along with another clump of yellow freesias. If you look just above that second yellow clump there is my newest acquisition, a 'Tuscan Sun' floribunda rose on a 3' standard. It was planted bare-root about a month ago and immediately started leafing out, which gives me great hopes for it since it seems so vigorous.

There's a big clump of 'Hidcote' lavendar on the left hand side front, with some white Iberis (evergreen candytuft) and a gorgeous yellow-green Lavatera alba that is one of my pride and joys. When in flower it has striking lavendar flowers that appear on long spikes. As you go up the stairs into the house, there is a pink-flowering Coleonema (Breath of Heaven) competing with a pink flowering New Zealand Tea tree, both of which are currently in full bloom, but they continue to bloom sporadically throughout the year.

Last year DH and I went to New England at the end of April and it was like having spring twice which was neat. Our CA spring was just about over and New England's was just starting with their tulips and daffodils -- it was lovely!

Holy cow! what a beautiful front yard. what does it usually look like when it gets around june or july there?

kathy

This is almost the same angle, a little bit more front-on, taken July 2004. As you can see, the agapanthus is in full bloom and the retaining wall plants are all the way to the ground. The dark red flowers to the left of the clump of lavendar are a beautiful groundcover single-flower rose from Monrovia Nurseries that is sold at HDepot garden centers.

The New Zealand Tea tree was out of bloom at that time, but my big purple dahlia plant was full of flowers and well over 5' tall as usual. This plant and the roses are my best cutting flower plants.

That is a beautiful yard. I'm hoping mine can get close. Sidney

You have done a wonderful job and look like they are all very happy,

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WOW WOW jKOM51 WHAT A YARD I AM IN LOVE

JoAnn

20 days to go..... After tonight, our lows are suppose to be in the 40's for several days so I'm taking off a panel tomorrow.

Judy

Edited to say "I'll sleep with the window open and if the temperature drops it will wake me up."

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Many thanks for the kind words! We are especially happy since previously there was nothing but Bermudagrass and two ugly contorted junipers in the front. Everywhere else it had gone completely to weeds. The PO's had gotten quite elderly and weren't able to take care of the property any longer. One of them must have gardened at one point, though, because old plastic plant markers turn up when I'm digging in various beds! I like to think that the two sisters who owned the property would be happy to see all the flowers that now bloom throughout the year.

Here's what the cottage looked like when we bought it, prior to a new roof, a complete interior gutting and remodeling, building a new retaining wall by that driveway, and repainting:


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