I'm a new member

Hello everyone, I have been reading threw this forum for a few days now and when I came across a member from right here in my own little town of Tonasket I decided I had to join. I'm not real sure how it all works yet so be patient with me, Please! I love gardening and now ponds too.It's been a long old winter here and I am soooo ready for spring.My plants are starting to pop up and my pond is screaming clean me. I love learning about plants,in dirt and water. The pond has opend a whole new world of plants to me. I hope to learn a lot here and make new friends.Tell Later, Debbie

Welcome Debbie. I am also a new member, but I think you'll find DG to be a great resource and good entertainment. Do you already know Rutholive? If not, how great is the world wide web that it can connect people from around the world and across town.

jb

Thank you jb, No I don't know her, but now maybe we will meet. After all it is a very small town but a lot of country surrounding it.Yes small world. Debbie

Welcome to DG from another relative newcomer. I hope you love as much as I do... saved my sanity this winter. LOL It seems there's always something interesting going on somewhere and I've developed interests in things I'd never even known about a year ago.

Welcome to DG, Debbie! :-)

Welcome, Debbie. I'm in Western Washington. I can't wait for spring also!

We're planning a get-together (called a roundup here) sometime probably June or July, and maybe you can come! I know Rutholive is interested. Visit the roundup forum and look under the PNW post.

Gwendalou

Welcome all your fellow Washingtonians (and Oregonian) ! I am going to get my state map out and find where all these towns are.

Welcome Debbie from the "true NW"

Nice to see you Debby, welcome.

Welcome from a Seattle, Washington member. :)

Thank you so much everyone, I truley feel welcomed. Yhea Seattle! I was born there! Debbie

Hi Debbie,
Welcome, I too am a Western Washentonian transplanted to the Eastside. I live in the Red Mountian wine country outside of the Tri-cities. Nice to make your aquaintance.

Hi Debbie,
Welcome, I too am a Western Washentonian transplanted to the Eastside. I live in the Red Mountian wine country outside of the Tri-cities. Nice to make your aquaintance.

There seem to be a few of us transplanted from the westside over to E. WA. Taking a little getting used to for me. How long have you been on this side Debbie? I've been here only 3 years and gardening on this side (especially the Tri-Cities because it gets so darn hot) is taking a little extra getting used to for me. I am new to the site as well and am enjoying it quite abit. I hope you are as well!

-Stacey

Hi guys, thanks for the welcome and right back at ya! I have lived here 11 years full time. It's the winters I dislike more than the hot summers. Yes I do enjoy this forum. I have not paid tho so I am limitted to just this forum. If they make it a pay one I'll have to leave. Boo Hooo! Yes over there I think is much hotter than here, and we get the cooler nights. Thank goodness.
Debbie

Hi Stacey,
We must live really close. I've only been here for 4 years and too have been learning how different gardening is over here. I love how the tomatoes grow here, but unfortunately we haven't been able to grow corn. Smut is the main problem. Ugly stuff. I'm doing allot of things different this year and hopefully it will make a difference in my garden. Trying to put more organic matter in the soil and getting it built up better. Plus mulching more to retain moisture. The soil likes to bake in the heat here making it hard for the little seedlings to break through. Also we had a ton of crainflies and therefore had cutworms that eat everything that did break through. Hopefully our chickens have eaten enough of those to help solve some of that problem. I've found pole bean don't like the heat here. Bush ones do much better. I'm trying to grow blueberries but since the soil over here has a PH of 7 here I'm having to lower the PH with Sulfure. Boy there are tons of things to deal with over here. These are just a few.

I love the spring and fall here but the heat is something else. I miss the green of the westside but not all the traffic and people.
What do you grow in your garden? Sagewood

Welcome from another newbie. :)

I live along the I-5 corridore in Oregon about 150 miles South of Portland, and have done so for 21 years. I love it here, and plan to stay for a lot longer. Debbie, I am sorry to hear that you plan to leave if this forum becomes one of those open only to subscribers. The cost of being a subscriber is only $15.00 per year and is so beneficial. There are forums limited to subscribers that are well worth the time and money in terms of the assistance you can get - not to mention the companionship and friendlyness of the people on them. Please reconsider your plan to not subscribe. Even if you don't, welcome to Dave's Garden in any capacity you feel comfortable with. Dotti

Thanks Dotti, I have been thinking it over. I would love to get into the pond and water garden forum.I'm learning a whole new world of plants and other things with my pond. I love it and it gives me such relaxation.I do also like the frindship and comarottary(sp) I'm lost without spell check!hehehe. Spring is really here! I talked to my sister again,She lives down by Longview, she has hummers already so I need to get a few of mine put up. I rember I have a jug of necter in the old fridge from last year, I guess I better dump it and get some new made? I get a ton of them little buggers and have to put out 7 or 8 feeders to keep the fighting down.
Debbie

Hummers are such fun. It's amazing how something so small can be so gutsy! I've had them buzz me to let me know a feeder was empty and then start eating before I can get the tube put up for them. It's quite a thrill to have a hummer only a foot or so away from your face eating out of your hand. And the colors are so bright. Dotti

Yes I love those little guys. Last year my brother and sisterinlaw were visiting us and we were all out on the deck haveing our morning coffie. My sitser in law has very long nails and always colored and lots of rings, any way one tiney littlel one landed on her hand and started working away trying to get the nector from her nail. It was trully the most excitting thing and we didn't have the camara. We knew if any of us were to get up to go get it, it would be all over so we just all stayed very still and enjoyed it. I'm in Shoreline right now at my doughters and of coarse it's raining! I trully don't miss all this rain.Yesterday it was nice and we went up to Marysville to the outlet mall and of coarse I found a nursary at the wall mart. Yes I had to buy! I got 3 lovely 1 gal heathers to put up around my pond, and some Irish moss to go one the bank around it. Maybe Wrights nursery today? I love that place! Debbie

Hi everyone! I'm new here too, and had planned on just lurking for awhile since I am a RANK newbie to gardening. So much for that. I'm here in Woodinville, and the neighborhood tulips are just openning. Yahoo! It's spring!!

I have a grand total of 150 sq ft of nasty, mossy, weed-ridden grass in the backyard here. It surrounds a 10x10' cement patio, and a solid wood fence surrounds it- and I am really afraid it is clay fill. The grass is ALL coming out next week, and then my entire gardening budget is going towards dirt. Any ideas for what I should use? Topsoil, compost, peat moss... Compost is every one's recommendation, but can I throw in a bale of peat for cost saving purposes? What is YOUR favorite "recipe"?

Once I get something workable, we're doing a sweet pea teepee, sunflowers, hollyhock, columbine, snapdragons, and other cheap annuals for now. (The list is the request list from the family.) I have a tendency to over -study and -plan, so I'm trying to just dive in and make this a fun family project.

Bring on the soil recipes! Oh, and raised beds are not an option, unfortunately.

Welcome, I recomend all of the above. Lots of compost will really help. I'm in clay and shale and I know what your looking at.
Debbie