[GG Mora]

Well, it's not actually in the garden today, but will be soon. Ordered up a 50-lb. bag of alfalfa meal to dig into the beds along with dried blood, bone meal, and greensand. Was hoping to have it for the weekend, as I want to get some peas in the ground on Saturday, but the alfalfa meal won't be in until Monday. I think I'll plant anyway & let that one bed go without.

Also ordered up a truckload of mulch to cover up where we started new beds and a rhubarb mound last year.

Started flats of seed last Sunday; so far romaine and butterhead lettuces are sprouted, as are mache, basil and crepis rubra. Waiting on poblano peppers, fennel and coriander. Will start another round in a week or two of squash and sunflowers.

In a few weeks, we'll be renting a tractor so Mr. Mora can spend his one-month layoff pulling stumps and leveling the ground where we had an acre's worth of trees felled last spring. Hoping to get a bank of daylilies planted in June or so.

[jpr54_]

received my scented geraniums today-
over weekend i bought beautiful violas,pansies in addition to strawberries, peas, and lettuce

[clb]

The lovage is sprouting.

clb

[Liza]

I attacked my nemesis killer vine. It was threatening the lilacs, the beast! Threw a few pansies around the front walk, but it was half-hearted: my true feelings are bent on revenge for this awful strangulating tormenter. I felt a grizzly sense of satisfaction as I pierced it's roots.

[GG Mora]

Pray tell, what is this awful vine?

[Liza]

I call it "the killer vine," but I don't think that is the correct Latin name. I've stalked it for nearly ten years now, as it makes its evil way round my parent's garden. It curls around lovely trees AND shrubs, winding its way very tightly and somehow de-leaving them. Thankfully the neighbors weren't around because I was de-garotting their trees, too.

[Abbylovi]

Ruby red lettuce and mesclun were planted on the "veranda" last weekend. Various herbage to follow this weekend.

[Country Cook]

Chives, lovage and asparagus are up and growing , peas, lettuce, parsley root, carrots and beets planted. Not bad at 51 degrees of latitude.

[flyfish]

Temps still dropping a bit too low at night to safely put in annuals (Ottawa, zone 5a). The flats under the lights downstairs are mostly doing well but a few seeds remain recalcitrant.

The trilliums are up and we have some daffs.

Fly

[oh toro]

chiming in a little late here... but also a little late into the gardening season...

i just recently moved out to the sunset district (7 blks away from the beach, a blk from golden gate park) in san francisco. finally got around to clearing out the backyard from all the weeds and such. so i now have a clear area of good underlying soil that will be topped with about 2 ft of top soil. the garden will be about 3' x 18'... not too big but enough for this year.

i'm definitely going to grow as many different herbs as possible - various basil varieties, oregano, parsley, cilantro, etc... tomatoes, chives, onions, maybe some zuchini... hopefully i'll have enough room. i'll try and grow some peppers of sorts but not sure if there's enough sunlight out this way.

i'm really looking forward to having a garden after several years of apartment and urban dwelling.

[jschyun]

Ate my first couple of Zephyr squash and waiting for the piccolo di parigi cukes to get big enought to eat. Right now, the first cukes are about 2" long. Very fat cukes, this one. I planted tomatoes late so they're only just blooming and setting fruit.

[Ron Johnson]

Yesterday, I planted all my annuals: impatiens, petunias, vinca vine, sweet potato vine. I also planted two grape tomato plants, three basil, two flat-leaf parsley, one sage, one rosemary, one thyme, all in planter boxes hanging from my balcony and rear-deck. Mint, as usual, is coming up on its own accord. Can't kill that stuff with napalm.

[GG Mora]

I finally gave up planting mint in the garden. I'd even tried planting in buried plastic buckets, but the stuff sent fresh shoots up over the rims of the bucket and continued its forward march from there. Two summers ago, when I planted a fresh herb garden at the new place, I simply bought a large (very) square terracotta planter and stuck one peppermint and one spearmint plant in it. By summer's end, both had begun to establish themselves in the garden. Thoroughly fed up, I stuck the pot in the garden cart and wheeled it off into the woods, where I unceremoniously dumped the contents.

Last summer, I was out walking the property line with my husband when we came across a lush 3' x 3' patch of peppermint and spearmint. At least it's out where it can do no harm. For a few years, anyway.

[Ron Johnson]

I think mint can grow in concrete.

[Abbylovi]

Abbylovi, on Apr 22 2005, 10:44 AM, said:

Ruby red lettuce and mesclun were planted on the "veranda" last weekend. Various herbage to follow this weekend.

Can I just say that it is a joy to be able to open up my kitchen window, snip some baby greens and make a salad?