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| YellowRose |
Posted - Jan 03 2023 : 12:26:01 PM
Walked around my raised beds and container gardens today. All herbs except for the sage are gone but will come back in the spring. Nice to have fresh sage for beans and stews. The MJF garlic I planted in Oct survived the 7-degree temps before Christmas. The green tops are about 6" high so glad to see the hard freeze did not hurt them.
Hugs, Sara "FarmGirl Sister" #6034 Aug 2014
FGOTM Sept 2015 & Feb 2019
Lord put your arm around my shoulders & your hand over my mouth.
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| YellowRose |
Posted - Mar 05 2023 : 08:06:12 AM
I moved my bay tree and a large basket of assorted green leaf plants outside this morning. The bay tree is on the back deck and the basket of plants now sits at my front door. I may have to move them back inside if it dips into the 30s but for now they are out of the house.
Hugs, Sara "FarmGirl Sister" #6034 Aug 2014
FGOTM Sept 2015 & Feb 2019
Lord put your arm around my shoulders & your hand over my mouth.
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| levisgrammy |
Posted - Feb 27 2023 : 03:25:24 AM
We have daffodils coming up already and I am hoping they won't get ruined by the snow in our forecast. Our temperatures are all over the place. We won't be planting till April at the earliest. This year we are putting in raised beds. We have a small area to use. Still thinking of what we will put in there.
~Denise
Sister #43~1/18/2007
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| suny58 |
Posted - Feb 26 2023 : 5:53:18 PM
Same here Winnie!
Sara, have you thought about loppers or something like that to cut over? I so hope the dwarf okra works out for you! Our squirrels keep setting off the alarms. Drives my dog crazy!!
Farmgirl #7103
FGOTM January 2018
Dianna
"Blessed are they that see beautiful things in humble places, where other people see nothing." Pissarro |
| Red Tractor Girl |
Posted - Feb 26 2023 : 5:15:53 PM
Sara, I am sorry you lost many of your favorite plants this winter! Those days of Arctic temps and 20+ degree nights just overcame many of ours. This area is not prepared for such freezes. We cannot easily grow bulb flowers like you can so I am glad your spring daffodils and Hyacinths are blooming. Enjoy your yard work. You and I know that the slog of hot and humid weeks lies just ahead for all of us down here in the lower tier states. Come July, I will be begging for just one night at 20+ degrees!! LOL!!!
Winnie #3109
Red Tractor Girl
Farm Sister of the Year 2014-2015
FGOTM- October 2018 |
| YellowRose |
Posted - Feb 23 2023 : 08:00:44 AM
I have loads of squirrels too. They dig in my tubs to plant acorns and pecans. Always pulling out wee trees. All my tubs sit on two high cinder blocks, so I don't have to bend over. I get dizzy if I bend over too much. The only problem I have with the raised tubs is harvesting the okra when it gets too high for me to reach. I have a dwarf variety of okra to plant this year. Hopefully it will not grow too tall.
Hugs, Sara "FarmGirl Sister" #6034 Aug 2014
FGOTM Sept 2015 & Feb 2019
Lord put your arm around my shoulders & your hand over my mouth.
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| suny58 |
Posted - Feb 23 2023 : 07:46:05 AM
:) I've no tubs but yours sound fun and stress-free! I just might place a tub ground level and try them! Do squirrels eat them? I've got a ton, I'm sure you do too, lol
Farmgirl #7103
FGOTM January 2018
Dianna
"Blessed are they that see beautiful things in humble places, where other people see nothing." Pissarro |
| YellowRose |
Posted - Feb 23 2023 : 07:24:39 AM
The tulips are in a round galvanized tub with loam in bottom half of the tub and Mircale Grow potting soil on top half. This is the mixture I use in all my tubs. They wintered over with a layer of leaves.
Hugs, Sara "FarmGirl Sister" #6034 Aug 2014
FGOTM Sept 2015 & Feb 2019
Lord put your arm around my shoulders & your hand over my mouth.
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| suny58 |
Posted - Feb 23 2023 : 07:03:34 AM
Hmmm, I really want to grow more tulips!! Maybe when I go to see my son in Wa. During the annual tulip festival ill purchase some. What kind of soil do you have for them Sara?
Farmgirl #7103
FGOTM January 2018
Dianna
"Blessed are they that see beautiful things in humble places, where other people see nothing." Pissarro |
| YellowRose |
Posted - Feb 23 2023 : 06:58:01 AM
Dianna, you inspire me with all the garden work you do. The tulips are Golden Parade sold by Eden Bros. First year for me to grow them. In my part of Texas, we treat tulips as annuals.
Hugs, Sara "FarmGirl Sister" #6034 Aug 2014
FGOTM Sept 2015 & Feb 2019
Lord put your arm around my shoulders & your hand over my mouth.
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| suny58 |
Posted - Feb 23 2023 : 06:31:05 AM
Boy, Winnie, having the same weather as you I couldn't agree more! We list a lot too, my beautiful butterfly bush, 8 feet high and my smaller one both got frozen with the two artic blasts! I'm scared they are both dead but I suppose I'll have to YouTube it and see if they are savable. I'm heartbroken.
I've been out in the garden a LOT this past 2 weeks as the weather is kinder and warmer. Prepping my vegetable side with cardboard, mulching compost and this time I am waiting until April to plant! But the flower side i have been really working on! Cleaning out the lemon balm bed, and the dahlia bed. Separated and replanted over 35 tubers. Filling the bed now with plenty of pine straw from the tornado a few weeks ago. ;) the blackberry bed is all cleaned cut back and mulched. I've got compost waiting for the herb beds now and my flower seeds are in the fridge ' stratifying', lol! Spring is sure in the air here!
Sara, I love tulips but only have a few green leaves popping up as well as the daffodils and 3 of my hyacinths. What kind of tulips do you have??
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Farmgirl #7103
FGOTM January 2018
Dianna
"Blessed are they that see beautiful things in humble places, where other people see nothing." Pissarro |
| YellowRose |
Posted - Feb 23 2023 : 06:12:45 AM
Winnie it's a constant fight around here to keep unwanted vines from taking over. Honeysuckle and trumpeter vines are great climbing on my back fence, but the other vines are just pests that have to pulled up.
Hugs, Sara "FarmGirl Sister" #6034 Aug 2014
FGOTM Sept 2015 & Feb 2019
Lord put your arm around my shoulders & your hand over my mouth.
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| Red Tractor Girl |
Posted - Feb 18 2023 : 09:32:08 AM
We are still clipping back all the dead plants from the Christmas freeze and clearing out all these weed vines that took over so many Azalea plants. Before we plant new stuff, we will wait until late March when this area of Florida typically stops having freezes. No always , mind you. A few years ago, we had one in early April and it zapped all the flowers on my orange tree and I hardly had any oranges that year. Sneaky weather! You just have to give yourself a broader safe space when planting new things.
Winnie #3109
Red Tractor Girl
Farm Sister of the Year 2014-2015
FGOTM- October 2018 |
| YellowRose |
Posted - Feb 14 2023 : 3:27:47 PM
Today I checked on the tulips I planted last fall in a galvanized tub, and they are coming up. Took the covering of leaves off but will put back on if we have another hard freeze.
Hugs, Sara "FarmGirl Sister" #6034 Aug 2014
FGOTM Sept 2015 & Feb 2019
Lord put your arm around my shoulders & your hand over my mouth.
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| Daizy |
Posted - Jan 18 2023 : 10:28:39 AM
Hay there.
MY jonquils have opened up. They give us hope for spring. My crocus are still in the ground.....I hope they are anyway. Squirrels have had fun in my yard this year and I feed the birds too.
Hugs and prayers, Daizy #1093
Poor House Farmgirl Chapter {A virtual chapter open to everyone.}
A good day is when you find ALL your ear tags! I wonder how my cows would like my Farmgirl apron??
www.poorhouseparadise.blogspot.com |
| Jokamartell |
Posted - Jan 17 2023 : 6:46:13 PM
I found some pansy plants popping up in a pot in my front yard! Just the leaves so far, but it’s still growth! :)
Karen :)
To quote one of my past preschoolers “Not one of those Karens, but a good Karen”! Haha |
| MaryJanesNiece |
Posted - Jan 16 2023 : 1:54:43 PM
I have started thinking about my garden and what I would like to plant this year, but it is still too soon for me as well. I have snow in my garden. I am thinking about extending my garden. As of yesterday I only have one more onion left. I didn't grow enough onions to make it through the winter, so I guess that means I need to plant more. I will be getting a game plan here shortly so I can figure out how I will expand this year.
Krista |
| Daizy |
Posted - Jan 15 2023 : 6:38:51 PM
Hay there.
I took a stroll the other day also and paced out a few of my beds. The greenhouse is laying in pieces in the lot so hope to get it erected this spring/summer. I know where my Cajun garlic is supposed to be but haven't had a chance to reclaim that section.....its been neglected for more than a decade.
Still have some saplings to cut away from the edges. Im looking ahead....not behind.
Hugs and prayers, Daizy #1093
Poor House Farmgirl Chapter {A virtual chapter open to everyone.}
A good day is when you find ALL your ear tags! I wonder how my cows would like my Farmgirl apron??
www.poorhouseparadise.blogspot.com |
| nubidane |
Posted - Jan 06 2023 : 09:58:35 AM
Tasha's family used to have a shop online where they sold similar things. Let me see if I can find it later, no time now! |
| YellowRose |
Posted - Jan 06 2023 : 12:40:35 AM
...or Ruth in Tasha's red flannel petticoat. One of these days I'm going to get me one of those petticoats.
Hugs, Sara "FarmGirl Sister" #6034 Aug 2014
FGOTM Sept 2015 & Feb 2019
Lord put your arm around my shoulders & your hand over my mouth.
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| nubidane |
Posted - Jan 05 2023 : 4:19:43 PM
I'm with you Sara, I would love to have met Ruth Stout and Tasha Tudor also.
Although I can't imagine Tasha in the same gardening "attire" as Ruth. |
| YellowRose |
Posted - Jan 05 2023 : 12:08:06 PM
Hugs, Sara "FarmGirl Sister" #6034 Aug 2014
FGOTM Sept 2015 & Feb 2019
Lord put your arm around my shoulders & your hand over my mouth.
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| VegiChik |
Posted - Jan 05 2023 : 11:58:07 AM
Speaking of Ruth Stout & her gardening apparel (or lack thereof): puts a whole new meaning to a “farmer’s tan”! |
| windypines |
Posted - Jan 05 2023 : 03:36:17 AM
We also have lots of snow. But I don't think the ground ever really froze hard. So end of Feb I will start some pepper seeds and then March a few more seeds. Southern gardeners, enjoy getting out there.
Farming in WI
Michele
FGOTM June2019
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| katmom |
Posted - Jan 04 2023 : 9:47:27 PM
"Gardening?",, what is this strange thing, Gardening, that you speak of???
All I have in my garden is SNOW!!! and I am 'snow' over it! lol!
>^..^<
Happiness is being a katmom and Glamping Diva!
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| YellowRose |
Posted - Jan 04 2023 : 3:15:10 PM
I had not heard that. Ruth Stout is in a group of women along with Tasha Tudor that I would have liked to have known.
Hugs, Sara "FarmGirl Sister" #6034 Aug 2014
FGOTM Sept 2015 & Feb 2019
Lord put your arm around my shoulders & your hand over my mouth.
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