any gardeners?

“Now I know why you're supposed to clean and divide aquatic plants every 2 years, rather than every 4. Dang that was a lot of work. Now to sort the remnants out into fresh pots.”

“Treebait - my way is even easier - take really bad care of them so they die every year or two and you never have to mess with dividing them.

I've got tomato seedlings going inside. Happy to see the first bulbs pushing up above ground. I usually hesitate to cull and thin them, but did most of the thinning today.”

“Ped, I haven't done a dang thing with them. They get hit with the sprinklers during the warm part of the year, and rain during the cold. If I'm dragging the hose to the pond for a topping off, I might hit them. That's all the care they get.

I've still got water irises (alas, just yellow) out the wazoo. I did pick a "black gamecock" Louisiana iris this morning though. It's going in it's own bin, since mixing yellow irises with any other color irises causes them all to come up yellow. I can't explain it, but I know I planted 4 colors in 1 bin and all I got were yellow, from all of the plants.”

“More snow here in CA over the weekend. No phone/computer, power went off Saturday afternoon, not back on midday Sunday. So, headed to CC as I would have had to drive here anyway on Monday AM.”

“just got back from the garden shop...gonna try some early crops for the first time this year...got some peas, lettuces, and red onions...gonna have to put up some sort of barrier though to keep the neighbors dog from peeing on the onions

daffodils are budding out and the little nubs from the hasta have popped out along with some of the sages”

“I've gotten burned out on peas, this year I'm only going to plant one double row I think, about 12 feet long. Use to do three rows that long. Going to be a late Spring here in the mountains of CA.”

“Holy cow, I've already got a massive aphid invasion all over the yard! That's not good. I think I'm out of biological controls, too.”

“last night i discovered i have two great farm hands...i dug a trench and showed my 4 year old how far apart to sow the peas and my 3 year old went along behind him and covered them up...i just sat back and sipped some iced tea”

“That's awesome, TH. Laurel likes the idea of gardening but the execution needs some work still. So far she likes the glads starting to pop up and the Swiss chard in her garden bed.”

“Having grown up on the farm this joy of helping will be short lived...”

“My carrots grew about 9 inches thanks to the storm we had last night. It's wild when plants do that.”

“AS if getting bitten on the hand by a pi$$ed off cat Sunday wasn't enough, I just got gnawed on by a snake. I spooked it out in the garden (I put my hand down on it's tail) and it whipped around and grabbed my hand. It's a weensy garter snake, but sheesh, it just had to bite me right on the scab across my thumb. I waited it out, since pulling it off would hurt more. The yard cats were fascinated, needless to say. Now, where in hell is my bactine?”

“I'd have been freaked the F out, running around the neighborhood screaming with a garter snake flying from my hand, lol.”

“Nah, it bit down on my hand, and I just looked at it and sighed big time. It's not like I have enough scars on my hands, I guess. I did walk it over to the bachelor's buttons patch (quickly moving into the noxious weed category with catnip)and let it go there, so the yard cats wouldn't eat it.”

“Eleagnus is blooming already and it smells incredible!”

“spent the day getting the new garden ready for seeds. forgot how back breaking tilling is :(”

“hamhocker and I worked on her flower/herb garden where the bird feeders are located. We also plant tomatoes, onions, bell peppers, hot banana peppers and jalapenos this weekend. Our last day of frost (history wise) is the 15th so we took the chance and planted a week early”

“what happened to my post advising tree how to deal with his snake problem??...crazy mods

the onions are coming up nicely...never planted them before...if nothing else i'll at least have some nice green onions...the peas and lettuces are coming up too but i think i planted the lettuces too close...gonna have a lot of thinning to do...i'm going to put my tomatoes, squash and cucumbers on the south side of the house this year for more sun and to free up some space in my raised bed”

“you can have yourself a nice baby greens salad when you do that thinning thrifty.”

“I still have two feet of snow on my garden, started peppers and artichokes inside last week. Never seen it like this before.”

“I've got green tomatoes already. Cucumbers have blooms and all my peppers are blooming.”

“My daffodils are 3"-4" out of the ground.”

“i spied a tulip this weekend in the side yard!”

““spent the day getting the new garden ready for seeds. forgot how back breaking tilling is :(”
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I do all mine by hand.”

“my daffodils are already starting to wilt...is there anything that can be done to prolong them?...they come and go so fast”

“The daffodils around here are long gone, as are the tulips and most other bulbs. The muscari at the old church graveyard nearby are in full bloom right now. The original bulbs were planted before there was a U.S.A. It's a cool place to visit.

My onions area actually starting to bulb up this year, despite it being rather warm. I goosed the phosphorus and potassium levels in the garden a bit, and that seems to have done the trick.”

“question: have I hit the mother load with all these worms, or have I found a huge problem in my new garden?

I have never ever seen so many worms. I even kept a few handfuls and put them in my new compost”

“You have hit the motherload.”

“Gotta put sunglasses on to view SC's post of her Daffodils. Got home from being gone all week to work, snow is down to a foot on the garden. With all the snow two and three weeks ago, the Alders have shed lots of twigs, branches. Down by the creek you can't step anywhere without stepping on something. I had it all cleaned up a few weeks ago before the Spring snows started. My back is broke, I have a tiller to use the last 10 years, back when Troybilt was still Troybilt.”

“a lot of worms jsut means you have a lot of organic meterial in the soil for them to eat. If you had dirt with little organic meterial for them to break down they would migrate elsewhere.”

“Yikes...

Last night I helped the brownie troop leader and another adult (I use the term very loosely here-she's an extremely selfish b!tch and everything that goes wrong is someone else's fault) thin out, cut back, and prune out the previous girl scout troops garden out behind the church. Somehow I ended up with 2 large lawn bags full of thinned out irises and day-lilies. I just cut them all back and cleaned them up. Now I have to figure out where the heck to plant them. I was thinking the dropoff, but I'm not ready to tackle that yet. I was going to put in a perennial bed next to the concrete slab out back, but I think it's now bulbs. I know that some of the irises are dark purple, but beyond that it's total potluck. I think I'll pot up some of these darlings and give them other parents in the troop. Spreadin' the love...”

“Sorry, I sure didn't "feel the love" in that post.

The first sentence sort of sent it south.”

“Lol...this woman tried to kill herself lat month, and tried to have the kids over to watch her die/ participate. She showed up unannounced tried to interfere with the scouting project the kids were working on...we had to bring her outside to get her to leave the kids alone. Missy (leader/ almost sister in law to this freak) gave her a shovel, pointed her at the overgrown beds and told her to knock herself out. She didn't, but she dug up a lot of plants.”

“I should be able to transplant tomatoes, peppers and my artichokes this weekend and get some ground ready for other stuff. I'll need to consult the almanac to see if it'll be root crops or lettuce/greens. More every weekend if it will warm up.”

“good for you. post pics when done.

I did it the old fasion way..seeds..they are starting to sprout”

“i broke another fargin shovel handle yesterday...maybe it's time to stop being so thrifty and shell out more than $5 for a shovel”

“Lol TH, my hoe is on the way out. The handle cracks a little more every time.”

“You shouldn't be so hard on your hoe, I'm sure she does the best she can.”

“I started hot peppers and the artichokes but not the maters this year. Gettin old and wasn't thinking good when I started the peppers but not the tomatoes.”

“I started everything by seed this year. Absolutly everything. I have not bought one transplant at all, even the herbs and flowers. Well, Crazy Mike bought some flowering hanging baskets as a surprise but that's it!”

“This is by far my favorite time of year. I'm loving cruising the yard daily to see what perennials are coming in and unfurling and the veg seeds all sprouting. Found my jack in the pulpit today. It grew and opened in two days!”

“I CAN'T GET MY COMPOST BALL OPEN!!!”

“My fav time too, I look the whole yard over and check out the creek going thru my property. I have to step gingerly, as I forget where I transplanted native plants. My Shooting Stars are blooming now, love them, transplanted more into my yard last year. With the snow finally gone the last couple weeks, everything needs to be done at once now.”

“lol @ uncliff.”

“Snowing today. Isn't this California? Got snowed on the two nights I went snowcamping last weekend with a couple other guys. Feels like Memorial Day weekend. At least I got my tomatoes, peppers and artichokes transplanted on Saturday, with the moon right for everything, I was going to plant carrots and lettuce today, may still be able. I rotoilled ground for them yesterday to be prepared for today incase.”

“LOL @ hikerduane...my dad use to use the almanac for everything from plantin' taters to cuttin' hogs...know what I found out? If you feel like it is time to plant then it is time to plant. Has more to do with soil temperature than anything.

Biggest problem here is it will not stop raining so you can get anything done to plant.”

“Oh no!!!! FIRE BLIGHT!!!! :(

I jsut cut off the offending breanch from one of my pears. I hope it doesn't spread. :(”

“sticks, that is what I found too. I try to go by the almanac, but when push comes to shove, get it planted!”

“well, i shelled out the cash and got a fiberglass handled shovel...let's see how long till i destroy this one

i thought i'd support a local garden shop this year rather than going to the big box place...problem was, all their transplants came in 4 packs...now i've got 18 pepper plants...who needs 18 pepper plants??!!!

yeah, i know, the math doesn't add up...that's cause i bought a couple extras at the big box place too, shhh, don't tell anyone

getting ready to put out my tomatoes, zucchini, cucs and green beans…i've always used the bush variety but will be using the pole this year (that's gotta be a out of context quote)…any body notice any taste difference?”