Tis the season to be outside working YEAH!
By free_man
@free_man (7330)
United States
February 27, 2011 7:31pm CST
Not this past week but the week before we was having weather that was so cold the water froze with it running! It was on just enough to keep it from freezing or I thought it was . Any way this past week it has been in the upper 50's and today it was 70 no sun though. But it has been nice enough for us to get out in the yard and get ready for the planting season. Got most of the flower beds cleaned out now. Cleaning our fence line now. We will plant vegetables all along the fence line that likes to climb. Tulips coming up no flowers yet. Took egg cartons with dirt in them so we could get a lot of seeds up big enough to put in the ground. Can hardly wait! The warmer season will bring us work to do for others too. So I won't be on here as much as I have been. Are you getting ready for the planting season? Do you have warm enough weather to plant yet? Have you started any plants in the house yet? What are you planting in your garden? Will you have a garden this season?
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@GardenGerty (169477)
• United States
28 Feb 11
No, it turned cold again last week or so. We cannot work in the yard. It has actually been raining but very cold today. I will clean a bed and put in peas, and lettuce in first.
@free_man (7330)
• United States
28 Feb 11
We have tomatoes started in the egg carton. The lima beans need a bigger pot to start it in. We will put up some wire right out our kitchen window and plant the lima and pole beans there so we can watch them grow. We have a nice flower bed just outside the kitchen window but it is big enough to put some pepper plants in there. Good luck on getting your garden started soon. Well at least with it raining it will make tending the ground a little easier to dig around in. Didn't get lettuce yet. Hoping to get some new seeds this week though. Hoping they have the mulch out too. Made the flower garden a little larger at the front of our drive and going to make one just inside the gate a little wider. Want to put the mulch down as we weed it again.
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@GardenGerty (169477)
• United States
28 Feb 11
You have some really neat plans. I need to get my seedlings started. I have seeds that would be easy to do. I saw a post about building a table type planter for lettuce and radishes. I have an old utility sink that I think would be a great place to grow some things.
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@free_man (7330)
• United States
2 Mar 11
Thanks. I want to make raised beds to plant in Missouri grows rocks....LOL No the ground around here needs some loose soil to plant in. We have been putting potting soil in our garden but the onions still don't want to grow in the soil. So putting them in planters that we have and will try them in potting soil. I would use that utility sink to plant things in. I bet it would be a great planter. Got an old cast iron sink in the yard will put flowers in it this season.
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@dainy1313 (2370)
• Leon, Mexico
5 Mar 11
Hi free_man it{s very hot right now here... but our home (yours too) is very fresh. I don´t have garden, but I have some pots. I used to grow some of my "spider" plants, I´d like to work on them a little bit this season. Blessings!... Dainy
@free_man (7330)
• United States
5 Mar 11
Hi Daniy and welcome to my lot. I have never had much luck with spider plants. Seems like I keep killing them off.....LOL What is your trick to keeping them alive? The rest of my house plants do good. I look forward to when the flowers in the yard are coming up so I can have fresh flowers when ever I want.
