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[GG Mora]

Kicked off yesterday. I put seeds into a flatfull of dirt for:

• Jaune Flammée, Sun Sugar, and San Marzano tomatoes
• Hot cherry, jalapeño, and padron peppers
• Beatrice and Bambino eggplants
• Fennel (for bulbs, not fronds)
• Gonzales green cabbage - a hybrid that produces small heads and can be planted on 8" centers

[Daniel]

We did some preliminary work in the back.. Tilled the ground, threw in some herbs in window boxes, dug up some roots, planted some flours..

Anyway, these guys just sprouted up in the backyard.. I think/thought they were ramps but, they are just so big on the bottom.. Anyone know what these are?

[Daniel]

And after about 20 minutes of making herb jokes, we actually bought some herbs (the legitimate kind) from a really cool guy that works there..

[tsquare]

Daniel,
Do those things smell like onions/garlic? That would make them more likely candidates for ramps.

They look like naturalizing bulbs, maybe lily of the valley?

[Daniel]

They did not smell very oniony.. And the bulbs are way too big for them to be ramps in my heart of hearts..

I am realizing I dont like plants that are just green for greens sake.. I like plants that do things. Either provide pretty flowers,herbs, vegetables, or something.. No free rides in my garden.. Everything has to do something.

[Anthony Bonner]

They did not smell very oniony.. And the bulbs are way too big for them to be ramps in my heart of hearts..

I am realizing I dont like plants that are just green for greens sake.. I like plants that do things. Either provide pretty flowers,herbs, vegetables, or something.. No free rides in my garden.. Everything has to do something.

they would have flowered if you hadn't pulled them out. bulb-killer


Because we're out of town all of May no spring planting this year. We'll wait to do the hot weather stuff in early June. Magnolia's on the deck look great - another few days they'll be covered in blooms.

[Daniel]

I replanted them in a row.. I was waiting to see what they were.. Now, I think they will have to be "relocated"

Here is an overview of what we are working with.. You can see the lillies lined up by the stairs.. And in that brick box in front of the stairs on the far left side, you can see the recently discovered lilly of the valley lined up on the left side.. After the box, on the right side, you can see where Miss K planted her plants.

Having never done anything like this before, we are all really excited..

[Anthony Bonner]

I replanted them in a row.. I was waiting to see what they were.. Now, I think they will have to be "relocated"

Here is an overview of what we are working with.. You can see the lillies lined up by the stairs.. And in that brick box in front of the stairs on the far left side, you can see the recently discovered lilly of the valley lined up on the left side.. After the box, on the right side, you can see where Miss K planted her plants.

Having never done anything like this before, we are all really excited..

nice space. You need some shrubs and ornamental trees up in that place though. Some perennials as well. Then fill in with the annuals



I'd kill for a real garden. For now its all big containers.

[Daniel]

I replanted them in a row.. I was waiting to see what they were.. Now, I think they will have to be "relocated"

Here is an overview of what we are working with.. You can see the lillies lined up by the stairs.. And in that brick box in front of the stairs on the far left side, you can see the recently discovered lilly of the valley lined up on the left side.. After the box, on the right side, you can see where Miss K planted her plants.

Having never done anything like this before, we are all really excited..

nice space. You need some shrubs and ornamental trees up in that place though. Some perennials as well. Then fill in with the annuals



I'd kill for a real garden. For now its all big containers.

I had all the shrubs ripped out.. I can't eat shrubs.

[Anthony Bonner]

I replanted them in a row.. I was waiting to see what they were.. Now, I think they will have to be "relocated"

Here is an overview of what we are working with.. You can see the lillies lined up by the stairs.. And in that brick box in front of the stairs on the far left side, you can see the recently discovered lilly of the valley lined up on the left side.. After the box, on the right side, you can see where Miss K planted her plants.

Having never done anything like this before, we are all really excited..

nice space. You need some shrubs and ornamental trees up in that place though. Some perennials as well. Then fill in with the annuals



I'd kill for a real garden. For now its all big containers.

I had all the shrubs ripped out.. I can't eat shrubs.

you are doing all veg? Not my thing, but I get it.

[Daniel]

Yeh, well Miss A is reading along here and she informed me that we aren't doing all veg!


One day my little friend, one day.. I feel like I should be watering her with melted butter.

[Country Cook]

Still a few weeks before I can even get out to turn over the vegetable garden

[mongo_jones]

our last frost date is after may 15...

[Sneakeater]

I'd kill for a real garden. For now its all big containers.

You'll have one when you move to Brooklyn.

[StephanieL]

We're getting lots of chili peppers now. N planted some sweet Italian peppers in another pot and we have 3 sproutlings that are doing nicely. I'm sure she has plans to plant some more of the seeds we got at the Arthur Avenue market.