At last, I'm seeing sprouts!

I hear you Karen. My job keeps getting in the way. :-) Helen

LOL yes, I forget how many different ones I have to. I wish I had kept a list like the more organized ones (kqcrna?) on our forum!

I am still 'wintersowing' some of my tender annuals, like zinnia. I like to keep them in their little containers so the birds don't get at the seed. It seems to work out OK.

I'm hoping to plant some of my WS perennials out this weekend. First I have to make a garden, and I'm not sure exactly how to do that (without my husband noticing!)

Thanks for adding your zone, too. I was thinking maybe muskegon is in the upper penninsula, but at 5a I don't guess it is...? Is that where the ferry docks from Wisconsin? We took that once a long time ago when the kids were little... Sorry... of topic...

Hi Tabasco
We do have a cross lake ferry out of Muskegon. We're just north of Grand Rapids by 65 miles I think.

It's too soon to plant my babies but I did open all the containers. Had to water some because they were so dry and then we finally got rain. I'm hoping the rest of the containers will sprout now that it's warming up. I'm still happy with 15 out of 27 though. Helen

Me? Organized? Obviously I've misled you.

Make a lasagna garden, tabasco. Just tell your husband you're doing it to cut down on lawn that needs to be mowed. A good cause. Grass is only good for feeding compost.

Karen

I'm waiting for my DH to go out of town. Then he won't notice that we have a new garden until he gets the bills for the compost and so on...and maybe not even then.

It's so wet here my little seedlings are drowning and so cold they are shivering. I wish the sun would shine a bit and dry things up so I can plant in the garden.

tabasco: Pay cash. Maybe he won't notice the new garden.

Do you buy your compost in bulk? Do you know a good local source? I've not found one so I usually rely on what I can generate myself and some bagged stuff.

Karen

I buy my compost by the yard from a landscaper out on Roundbottom Road--Bzak's. His stuff is pretty good--at least better than Evan's.

Hey Helen, how are your sprouts?? I've got poppies that are getting ready to bloom, thanks to you:-)

That's great news! My 'brilliant' red poppy is ready to bloom. I don't think I started any poppies this year; I expected them to reseed themselves. I'll have to wait and see. I think I'm doing OK with the ws seedlings. I'm going to transplant them to their own pots to grow on for a few more weeks. Helen

I expected to have some failure since I wintersowed them into jugs and bottles and heard that they didn't like transplanting. Thankfully, that didn't happen and I have huge ones all over:-)) I also have some JMG you sent that are still waiting to be trasplanted and are blooming in the milk jug. So cool!!!
I am also glad that I didn't have to plant anything in pots. They went straight from their jugs or bottles into the garden.

Congrats on your red poppy:->