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Post by plantsnobin on Jan 9, 2010 17:03:29 GMT -5
Lasted long enough in the cold to sow the following: Caragana arborescens, Lipppia dulcis, Callirhoe involucrata, Vaccinium myrtillus, Akebia trifoliata, Crambe maritima, Lycium andersonii, Rosa rugosa, Berberis fremontii, Cornus mas, Nicotiana sylvestris, Prunella vulgaris, Lycium exsertum, Desmanthus illinoensis, Diospyros texana, D catheyensis & D lotus, & Marrubium vulgare.
Supposed to warm up a little next week, then I will get some cabbage and other cole crops going.
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Post by darwinslair on Jan 9, 2010 18:35:09 GMT -5
in a week or two my super long season peppers will get sowed. Bhuts if I do them again, and De Arbols. Nothing then until mid/late feb when I start my "see if they make it" tomatoes which go out almost as soon as the ice goes out on the lake and we stop having heavy frost, usually beginning to mid april, which is when my regular peppers get started too. Then mid march I start everything that goes into the ground in May.
Tom
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Post by jonnyyuma on Jan 9, 2010 20:56:59 GMT -5
Last weekend I sowed my tomatoes, peppers, tomatillos, ground cherries, basil and watermelons into the trays. I have germination on about 80% already. I will go in the ground in about 30 days. I could have started earlier, but I have been busy with work and other crap.
Jonny
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Post by flowerpower on Jan 10, 2010 5:38:35 GMT -5
It's still a bit early for me to start anything.  |
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Post by rockguy on Jan 10, 2010 5:41:42 GMT -5
I have only started a few hot peppers that I know will take a while and grow slow. Feb 15 is about when I start the tomatoes here (tn zone 6b) but a few things I will start earlier like cole crops.
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Post by pugs on Jan 10, 2010 11:35:14 GMT -5
Discontent.
Pugs
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Post by freedomsailer on Jan 10, 2010 12:38:35 GMT -5
i'd love to be sow'n seeds today but i dont like diggin through the snow an ice to do it ... LOL ok ok bad joke .. but its true
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Post by Alan on Jan 10, 2010 20:02:03 GMT -5
I haven't sowed anything this year yet, but this week I am harvesting worm castings and will be starting up the Alpine Strawberries to get a jump on the season. The real greenhouse work won't start up until mid Feb when I will start producing seedlings in the wormhouse and direct seeding cole crops into the new raised bed in the bigger of the two greenhouses.
I should be setting up the first incubator for hatching Turkeys in the next 2 weeks though, it's amazing the effect a lighting timer has on them, it's so easy to trick them into thinking it's spring.
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Post by johno on Jan 10, 2010 22:28:59 GMT -5
That really cracked me up! Thanks for the laugh. |
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Post by sandbar on Jan 10, 2010 23:00:40 GMT -5
I second that, Johno! Score one for Pugs! Got a laugh out of me that even the comic page in the newspaper can't do anymore.
LOL ...
Johno ... no peppers sown yet? Don't you normally get started about now? I was thinking you like to start them pretty early.
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Post by johno on Jan 10, 2010 23:43:36 GMT -5
No peppers yet. Nothing yet. The girls have been home from college, so the house is completely trashed. I'm trying to convert one of their rooms to a guest room/office so I can convert the office to a seed room with a self enclosed seed starting rack I'm going to build. I bought some material for it tonight... I probably won't get anything started until February.
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Post by pugs on Jan 12, 2010 0:12:33 GMT -5
Glad you two got a laugh out of it.
Pugs
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Post by Alan on Jan 12, 2010 20:37:42 GMT -5
I just noticed that Pugs! Good one!
Today I sowed the Jeffersonian Alpine Strawberries, I gotta get some major seed increase this year and enough fruit to make a couple hundred gallons of wine. Plus I still owe silverseeds some but forgot I was out of the original germplasm and all I had were my crosses so I wanted to make sure to grow it all out first to ensure what I was getting.
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Post by Penny on Jan 13, 2010 6:58:17 GMT -5
I have sowed some peppers, no tomates for me, too early yet.
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Post by dirtsunrain on Jan 13, 2010 9:12:10 GMT -5
I'm starting to sow the perennials that benefit from staying cool. I have a sunroom that stays just above freezing and it works well for this sort of thing.
I also sowed a flat of wild blueberries. Supposedly, wild blueberries dont grow here because we dont have the right soil pH or the right pollinators (no Blackflies). I have found 4 tiny patches of blues in the woods here so I'm hoping to increase my wild forage plantings.
It feels so good just to look at a few flats and be hopeful for spring.
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