ahem but they are still trying to roust Balzac Billy out of his hole with a stick as far as know. I ask you. Poor thing probably has an ulcer from all the stress. All the more reason it should be 'Gopher Day'.
Coffee break 3 "Oh Mr. Groundhog....we need to talk!"
Early spring! Yes!!!!! I luv it when a plan comes together ^_^
ah well spring will come when its ready mother nature does her own thing lol its not like we can hurry her up with a bunch of ground hog lol
I can give her $20 if she would rather have cash.
ROTFLOLAPIMP!!!!!
Unfortunately now Fairfield County will have 6 more months of winter. ( You can't bribe Mother Nature. It ticks her off and she can be a mean ole boot )
hahah 20 is to cheap wont work maybe if we do a collection I will give her the loot hahah
look I have babies
oh I forgot they are baby delphiniums pacific giants multi color or what ever color comes up
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The delphinium are growing inside - right?
oh yes in flats over three feet of snow outside
- that's what I thought - I guess I should start some of my delphinium inside as well. I have some that I winter sowed outside, but I have saved the New Zealand Hybrids for indoors.
Yippee! Something to do tomorrow evening!
hybrid will grow well that is what I seeded actually put in four packages of different hybrids in a regular size flat just filled it with soil no peat pack or pots and they are just coming up will have to move them to pots in a couple of weeks and will reuse the flat for something else
Okay - so I start the seeds - then when the seedlings are bigger, I repot them - correct?
I only have 8 of these seeds so I really don't want to waste them.
if you only have eight start them like two in each pot using 4 inch pots wet the soil first squeaze out the access water put the seed on the top pat them I did not cover them and put them in plastic bags to keep in moister and give them some light but not south window east or west they like to be cool and be patient took three weeks for mine to start to come up at the end of four weeks if nothing is up put them in the garage where it is colder for two weeks and bring them in again I cooled my seed in the garage for two weeks before planting them
I'm having a german-chocolate-bar-and-coffee break right now, and thought this is the appropriate thread for a quote from my familiar Gardener's Bed Book by Richardson Wright:
"In all the world's vast library there is no better reading for a countryman than the catalogue of a mail-order house."
He wrote that in the 20's or early 30's - if he could only see what a selection we have today!
My seeds have been in the fridge since I bought them - so no concerns there. I will follow your advice precisely :-) Our Old House is generally kept at about 60 degrees, so I don't have to worry about the delphiniums getting too warm ^_^
thats good mine is at 68F and the vent is closed in the room where I put them they do like it cool
I haven't started any seeds yet---maybe in a week or two---I'm buying more that I can direct sow--getting lazy!
the seeds im starting need at least three months inside before they can even be outside and then another two months outside before they can be planted and some will not be planted till the fall so in other words I m only starting perennials that are slow growers
I posted my big list of perennials on the old thread. I'm prepping a few more that have to be washed for a week or two and then there will be a hiatis.... and then..... TOMATO babies ^_^. I would kill for a fresh tomato at this point in my life. I ate my last home grown late November sigh.
You wait me to send you A Tomato????? I will just run down to south Florida and run right you there to you!!!! LOL
My dear Wren if you are telling me you are ACTUALLY having ACTUALLY fresh tomatos that ACTUALLY didn't come from some mass hothouse greenhouse growop then I ACTUALLY will swoon!!!!!
the closest I have come is very nice tomatillos for salsa. But not the same...
Wren, if you are into cross country delivery...and we have no snow, either!
I'm getting mighty sick of lettuce & cuke salads--I do buy radishes for color---but it's hardly the same as a nice, ripe juicy tomato!
They do or did grow tomatoes down in south Florida. I am afraid that WA is a little bit to far!!!! LOL
I know - opposite side of the country. But one can always wish...
lol!
Exactly how does one conceal a bird on each leg?
Code name: Lumpy.
He put them under tights. Maybe a little chloroform? I get searched EVERY time we fly, and every time something like this hits the news, the TSA agents find another level to their "random" searches.
Yes, I saw that part, but still, it would be lumpy, and protruding...
victor - don't!
The last few times I've flown I've been the one picked to take my sneaks off. It is annoying but it's really much more annoying, most, or all would say catastrophic, when the jet hits a building. So I'll take my shoes off and smile while I'm doing it.
Do you think the agent said "Is that a bird in your pants or are you just happy to see me?"
Ooops, Katye, I think I did it.
Everyone takes their shoes off here
Hee hee. Yes you did, Weeze! At the airports around here, you always have to remove your shoes too. Doesn't bother me at all.
LOL, Venu! & Victor did say there were 3.....
Everyone takes their shoes off or gets tested for GSR. I'm not complaining about safety measures that actually keep us safer! I fly through a lot of different airports, and I can't go through the metal detector so I ALWAYS get searched. Sometimes it's efficient and friendly. Sometimes it's ineffective and amateurish. When they figure out how to be professional and efficient about searching under everybody's tights and long underwear, I'll be fine!
honest question: besides this guy with the birds, etc., who puts things in their tights or thermals?
I can understand vigilance for safety, but, I'm not sure I'd want to ask a traveller to empty their tights.....whoa!
Could be worse. You can be asked to empty your tights when you're not wearing any.
our airport makes everyone strip naked. It has added a whole new dimension to flying.
I bet it has. No Connecticut for me ;)