If she didn't re-sign, we would have to keep it going in her memory!
90 days till Spring!
Only 37 days 'till Spring!!!! Woo Hoo!!!!!!
I want it in writing!
What do you think this is?
DG is not legally binding!
Guess I can't help you then. You can suffer and stay in Winter. I'll be just across the river enjoying Spring in 37 days.
Oops. Sorry Sherry. I was talking to Victor there.
Yeah, we're getting snow here too, probably not as much as you though!
Hope you're right, Harp!
all stuck?
he he...
I couldn't think of a better group to be stuck with!
Boy, 37 days - I better "wake up and smell the manure"! In other words, get to work!
oh I can't wait... I think I am seriously being affected by the weather...I never imagined this could really happen... but I am feeling awful... well it's pathetic but 2 days ago I went to Home Depot to get a light bulb and ended up leaving without the light bulb but I got a dozen roses .... lol... I just could not say no...
I don't think spring is looking at the calendar here! LOL Or is winter not looking at the calendar. It's hard to believe that in one month spring arrives and we are still buried under snow and ice! Don't get excited by the pic - it's last years!! Eleanor
(( I've already been walking around inside area nurseries (nothing there yet but seeds). The sales clerks ask if they can help me and I respond, just dreaming of spring!! ))
Happy Valentine's Day!
Oh lovely pics ladies! They do make me long so for spring. Maybe all that snow early has made the winter seem longer than most recent years but I can not wait for warm days and things to start growing again. Leaves, I miss leaves!
at least the sun is out today!
And only three weeks to Daylight Savings!!
Really???? oh wow!
Three weeks from this weekend - March 9th.
Yippee! Everyday we get closer to when I can set up my little mini greenhouses and start moving some stuff outside!
Michaela, how many pots have you planted????
I have no way to start anything from seed this year inside the house... my family is not very open... ah so many of my house plants have died... sad...sad.... can't wait for spring!
Let me see . . . I have 50 purple pansies started, and then probably another 70 or so just germinating, and about 40 vinca, and then I started (stupidly) 22 brugs (how was I to know so many would germinate???) and I have about 25 daylilies started, and about 30 or more geraniums, and a bunch of canna lily seeds, and some flowering maple seeds, and four different kinds of datura and I still have to start petunias, (7 kinds).
This doesn't include the stuff I have winter sowed.
So you see, there had better be a RU in June so some of these guys can find homes :-)
oh my goodness that's quite a good collection... I have been so busy with school that I have no time to do anything but have my nose stuck in a book! oh graduate school is hard... the amount of things to read is trully unrealistic...
I don't have any more brugs... they all died last fall... and daturas will come back... actually I hope not so many come back this year.... I am actually planning to plant tomatoes in one place I had daturas... I am wondering if that would be a problem since all parts of datura are poisonous....
oh spring could not come sooner...
Michaela, you have 30 daylilies started?? WOW! Are those the seeds I sent??
I have a mess of Petunia's to start....any hints on how to?
Petunias don't seem to be too hard to start. But after they germinated last year, they really slowed down on me, so I was planting these itty bitty plants - of course by July they were huge! The petunias like bottom heat - or start them in a small room you can heat to 85 degrees or so. After they are a few weeks old you can grow them in much cooler conditions.
The daylilies are the seeds you sent me. They are in the basement and are under lights 16 hours a day. I doubt they will bloom this year - but they might bloom next year.
Thanks for the tips, i'll put the petunias on the heat mat then.
Did all the seeds I sent germinate? 30 daylilies? Hope you get some pretty ones out of them and don't forget to post pics!!
I used the Deno method - soaked the seeds, placed them in a damp coffee filter then in baggies. I had them in the fridge for about 3 months (I sort of forgot them) They froze a couple of times by accident! At one point, it looked like I was starting to grow mildew, so I removed the seeds, put them in new damp coffee filters and new baggies and put them on the radiator. Well, as seeds germinated, I planted them up. 25 seeds germinated, and of those, 23 still survive. They are sown individually in large plastic (20 ounce) drink cups. I punched holes in the bottom for drainage. The "leaves" or is it "straps"? Whatever, anyway, the shortest are about 3" and the longest are about 8" long. I am not sure if the variation in length is due to when they germinated or their parentage.
Anyway, they seem quite happy, though I want to move them outside asap. I have little mini-greenhouses I can set up in March and maybe I will be able to move them there. Currently, they are in my basement in temperatures probably around 50 degrees.
I have 3 DL's growing in the house, 5 morning glory vines, a mini rose, 3 lily bulbs in a pot and Hibiscus seeds are germinating. I still have a ton of seeds to start.....will need to WS some as my kitchen, office, and french doors will be full!
Yes you can but it may take longer. I usually just put them in a damp paper towel in a dark warm place for a few days, make sure the PT stays moist. I check them and when I see they have sprouted I plant them. Very simple really.....need DL seeds? LOL
Yes maybe. I am trying to think about what I am going to do with this whole yard. I am not getting any place fast on the whole subject. There is more to it then meets the eye.
I know I am going to put the GH to work to perk up the yard. My head keeps going around in circles.
Now I get thinking and I have a few day lillies. I read on here last year that they are tubular and you can cut them out of the ground (as they divide) to get more plants. I could of saved the seeds last year - sigh.
I have a ton! No need to worry about DL seeds!! LOL
Looking out at the garden now that the snow has gone, boy is there a lot of clean up to do this spring. The snow came early in the season and never left so a lot of stuff has been collecting. How do all those oak leaves multiply under the snow any way? It is a good thing I think cause it will be something to do out there when its too early for digging and planting. Have you all noticed how late the sun is setting again, a good sign that the time is almost here. Cabin fever or spring fever, I'm not sure which but it is getting to me and I cannot order any more to keep it in check. Come on spring! :)
Oak leaves are the most pitiful leaf there is other than PI. They don't disappear. They stay on the trees and they take a ton of time to compost. I hate them. Yes the days are getting longer. I have the cabin disease bad. Yesterday I said to myself - there would be nothing like going down to the garden and picking a fresh tomato or cuke right now.....ohh
Beautiful crocus!
wow... I didn't start the hibiscus seeds... oh I am so dumb... yesterday I checked the dahlias and tons of mold... oh I am so sad... can't believe it... I am heart broken... I don't think I am good saving dahlias! what a waste of money! ouch! I will stick to roses, thank God you plant daylilies and they come back! thank God for irises too... I am sticking to perenials too...
Kassia - what type of hibiscus? I think I have some volunteers of the tall variety in my yard if you want them this spring... mine look like this:
I think it's called Copper King??
