The local market is on Saturdays on Saltspring. I'm only staying one night for my friend's party. Then I'll head home. I visit there a couple times a year.
I don't put much on my deck until mid April. I live over the water and get nasty south east winds right up the Strait of Georgia. I plant annuals in late April /early May in the ground. Perennials can go in much earlier.
Anyone grow Gerber Daisies from seed?
Cheryl, your seedlings are looking good with their first true leaves! How exciting :)
Steven
I received (and planted) my first order of daylilies on April 16th last year, which was the day we planted half the daylily seedlings outdoors, and the rest on the 17th, and I was thinking they could easily have gone out a month earlier, since the ones in the ground were up by quite a bit when we put the seedlings in.
I've already got last year's daylily seedlings and cultivars up 3-4" this year right now, buds on my viburnum, and leaf buds on lots of other plants, so I'm hoping for an early spring. I tend to rush the season, myself...
Ooo, your plants are budding.....Lucky you :)
I am impressed after reading this thread for the first time!!!!!!!!!!
Hey Gail! Have you turned Canadian? LOL :)
It's good to see you here.
Steven
I love BC for that reason - spring comes wonderfully early - although when I'm out in the garden madly trying to get all the jobs done that I forgot to do/procrastinated upon last fall, and the plants are growing like something out of a b-science fiction movie, I'd prefer a slower start...sort of ease into it...instead of attempting to convince a plant that it needs dividing before it gets to six feet, and can it just sort of sit there while I get these other chores done, please?
That's my excuse every year for why I'm out with stakes and string trying to tie up dahlias, daisies, etc in full glorious bloom.
Yeah, I usually stake too late, like you said when they're in full bloom and I try to cram them in a hoop. Although I'd would never ask them to wait and stop growing, I'm just to impatient! :)
Late last year I got this really good knife for dividing perennials from Lee Valley. It works great.
Steven
I don't even want to think of staking things now...I'm usually running around tying things to stakes while lightening flashes and thunder rolls, begging the storm to just wait a minute til I get these things tied up safe..then you can bang and boom and blow all you want.....
three, that sounds familiar - that is me in peony season. lol
Sandy
Each year, I promise myself that this time, I'm going to do the peonies before they need it, honest, and each year, it's a complete untruth - because before the buds, they don't need it, so can wait "one more day" and it always always rains when they are fully open, and over they go, like character actresses collapsing in a heap on the chaise lounge, down they go into the dirt....sigh.
so true...even here, it always rains when the peonies open........always....
2zeus, you paint a great image with the peonies collapsing! The back of the hand raised to the forehead in defeat is mine, though.
Sandy
LOL, Sandy!
3gardeners, I'm glad to hear someone else say that, when I make that complaint to my DH, he starts telling me about statistical likelihood, etc. But I believe that as long as I've been gardening, that's happened. We should take a poll, eh?
It always rains after the Peonies open here too!
Here too :-)
An update as of today, they are growing in leaps and bounds:
The largest single:
The ones with 2 to a pot aren't quite as big, must transplant these soon:
Ohhhh, lovely Cheryl! Looks like you're going to have a very nice crop.
--Ginny
I can't wait - did you see the article on the login page about "Why do I garden?"
No I didn't see the article. I've even logged out and back in to try to find it and I still don't see it. Can you post a link to the page please? I have no idea where to look for it even.
--Ginny
Edited to say: I found it on the Articles tab (posted January 28), but I still don't know where I should be seeing it on the login page :-(
This message was edited Mar 11, 2007 3:09 PM
There's a different one on there now, about composting! I'm guessing dave is changing this each day, and yesterday's must have still been up when I logged in today...sorry for the confusion.
Good goin', Cheryl. They sure grow fast, eh?
Sandy
Looking good Cheryl :)
Steven
Seems like if I don't look at them for a day, they do a huge leap forward.lol.
I know what you mean, everyday when I get home from work I look at my seedlings and you can see how much they've grown.
They grow more when we aren't home, it's a law of the plant world.
LOL! You are so right!
Ohhhhhhh.....that's why mine aren't growing...I'm home all day.
See? They can't put on those growth spurts with you around all the time...
LOL It must be true! Every day when I get home I find another type of seed has started to sprout, or one of the already sprouted seedlings has suddenly spurted up an inch, or the musa has another leaf suddenly popping out. Maybe you could pretend you're not home one day and see if that works :-)
--Ginny
LOL.....I might have to, all my seedlings seem to be stuck at first leaf stage. Some begonia seedlings I have popped up and froze there, have'nt budged in over a week!!!
Yup, just tell them you're going out and duck out of room quickly.....then with any luck, they'll think you're gone and sprout up :)
And no sticking your head back into the room for a peek, when you are supposed to be "out," plants are even more sensitive to that, than dogs are!
I remember being told with my first dog, that in order to check to see if she was keeping a "stay" command correctly, I should "sneak up on her" - RIGHT!
I'd slither carefully up to the doorway, ever-so-slowly and carefully peer around the frame to find - her looking straight at me, ears up, tail beating a gentle tattoo upon the carpet, wearing that interested expression dogs have, when wondering if this is a new game, or just further evidence of strange human behaviour...
LOL! I'll have to go with the strange human behaviour :) and know just what you mean about the dog...I've got a rabbit who hears EVERYTHING....and also acts like Miss. SmartyPants Know-It-All.
Steven
hehe you guys are too funny!
Plants, dogs, bunnies, strange behaviors, lol.. I think we all need for it to be spring real soon:-)
Bea
It was sunny here today, and I felt positively giddy, I'm so ready for spring!
I woke up this morning and the snow is all gone....whoooo hooooo......it's spring for sure now, even have some tulips popping up. Mind you, it all melted into the garage, but still, it's spring. I can live with 2 feet of water in the garage.
You have 2 feet of water, I have 2 feet of snow.....guess it all evens out in the end :-)