[galleygirl]

MY TULIPS ARE UP, MY TULIPS ARE UP!!!!!!

Sorry, I never planted tulips before...I planted them at Fred, the BF's house, last October, at the end of the bulb season, and they're two inches or so. I'm very excited!

[Abbylovi]

Congrats! Will Fred get a vegetable garden again this year?

[galleygirl]

Yes, I think I'm going to start the arugula and lettuce seeds inside this week. I'm mostly going to go for greens, and tomatoes, and the Egyptian onions that I planted last year should seed this year.

[tanabutler]

Scorched Palate, on Feb 23 2006, 07:08 PM, said:

Well, today's been fun.

We got the estimates back from the landscaper and the deck guy. Adding in our designer's fees, we're at 230% of budget.

We'd really hoped to start work this month. We're gutted, and we're living with a yard that looks like a war zone... and presumably now will be for months, because at this stage we don't even believe that we have a buildable design.

Needless to say, we are VERY pissed at our designer.

Aw, that completely, completely sucks. I'm so sorry for your troubles.

(I know some really good people here, who might be able to advise. People you can trust. Email or PM if you want to.)

[joiei]

We are putting the tomatoes in the ground today in "Wall-o-waters" until mid april when the last frost is past. Fresh herbs are not far behind.

[Scorched Palate]

We trimmed the overblown design by ourselves (we fired the designer) and have contracted directly with the deck/fence carpenter and the landscape/hardscape installer.

The carpenter started work this week, though it's been slow going because of the rain.

[GG Mora]

Yesterday afternoon, I pressed our mini indoor greenhouse into action and put tomato, eggplant, and pepper seeds into dirt (in a single flat). It's not much, but this is how it starts, and I can already feel the weight if winter lifting.

[flyfish]

Just waiting for the right combination of free time and weather conditions so we can use the dormant oil spray on the fruit trees. Possibly this weekend... fingers crossed.

I'll have to check out the rhubarb on the way to the apple tree...

Fly

[guajolote]

my crocuses have bloomed. because of the weird microclimate in my backyard they are 2 weeks later than everyone elses in the neighborhood, but i'm still happy about it.

[jschyun]

What kind of tomatoes are you guys putting in? Since I have no garden I must live vicariously.

[galleygirl]

jschyun, on Apr 1 2006, 12:04 AM, said:

What kind of tomatoes are you guys putting in? Since I have no garden I must live vicariously.

I'm going for Purple Cherokees and Black Princes again, then need to find one more that yields better. I planted something called a Roma II last year that was TOTALLY flavorless...

[omnivorette]

In Switzerland, I was given a gift of packages of seeds for 4 varieties of mache (which I love love love).

We want to plant them upstate, but we're only at the house one weekend out of every 3, approximately.

Whaddaya think about that?

[jschyun]

galleygirl, on Apr 1 2006, 02:56 PM, said:

jschyun, on Apr 1 2006, 12:04 AM, said:

What kind of tomatoes are you guys putting in?  Since I have no garden I must live vicariously.

I'm going for Purple Cherokees and Black Princes again, then need to find one more that yields better. I planted something called a Roma II last year that was TOTALLY flavorless...

Yeah, I haven't had much luck with the red romas either. Then again, I've only tried a couple of them. I do have a couple of seeds for this one variety called Amish Paste which is supposed to be great.

Black Krim was pretty productive for me. I really missed having tomato seedlings this year. *sigh*

[memesuze]

omnivorette, on Apr 1 2006, 08:57 AM, said:

In Switzerland, I was given a gift of packages of seeds for 4 varieties of mache (which I love love love).

We want to plant them upstate, but we're only at the house one weekend out of every 3, approximately.

Whaddaya think about that?

although I've never grown mache, I'm leery of leaving the plants to the vicissitudes of rainfall for so long a period.

would it be possible to plant a bunch of them in one of those disposable coolers filled with dirt with drain holes punched in the bottom with a screw-driver and carry it upstate? Jaymes swore by this arrangement for portable/deck-bound tomatoes - since I don't know your city living site to know whether you have any space like a balcony or deck with enough sun/space to grow them, I may be totally off-base here, and all you really want to do is grow something and the only place you have access to outside sun is upstate.

[tanabutler]

jschyun, on Mar 31 2006, 08:04 PM, said:

What kind of tomatoes are you guys putting in? Since I have no garden I must live vicariously.

Orange Russian 117 (my tomato grower's very favorite), Black Krim, Julia Child, Marianne's Peace, Bordo (her favorite black), Chuck's Yellow (her favorite, from her tomato grower back East), Chocolate, Early Girl, Green Zebra, Black Krim, and (of course), Sungold (the ONLY cherry we'll ever grow.)

These are the Chocolate ones: I brought some back from the Ferry Plaza market, and Cynthia saved out the seeds.



They're delicious.

More to come, but not until we plant more. It's a soggy mess out there.