Gotta get busy

[hoodat]

My seedling tomatos will need to be set out in the ground soon and I don't have a bed dug for them yet. I've been so busy getting my rabbits set up that I'm behind in my garden. I do have some nice looking zuchini in the ground though, just getting their second leaves.

 

[lesa]

Don't overdo it! Or are you just bragging??? I am hoping to start my tomato seeds tomorrow, inside where they will be safe from the snow they are predicting!
It seems like you are always busy... when was the last time you took it easy??? Happy Gardening!

 

[Smiles Jr.]

OK now you did it, hoodat! I'm really ticked off now. We're still getting snow here. I have several flats under grow-lights with heating pads under them out in the barn. But it's still too cool for good germination.

By the way I used to live at 8th and Grape in downtown San Diego in an old hotel building converted into apartments. Our big weekend entertainment was to go up on the roof and wave to the people in airliners coming for a landing at Lindbergh Field. We could look out our second floor side window and see the folks in their cars on southbound I-5. DW and I lived there from 1967 thru 1969.

 

[SweetMissDaisy]

Hoodat, have you always had rabbits, or are they a new addition to the "garden" for you this year?

 

[hoodat]

I've kept rabbits in the past. I learned from my grandfather but I've been without them for a long time. I'm just getting back into them, as much for the manure as the meat. I find myself cheering them on. C'mon guys, lets get to poopin.

 

[hoodat]

OK now you did it, hoodat! I'm really ticked off now. We're still getting snow here. I have several flats under grow-lights with heating pads under them out in the barn. But it's still too cool for good germination.

By the way I used to live at 8th and Grape in downtown San Diego in an old hotel building converted into apartments. Our big weekend entertainment was to go up on the roof and wave to the people in airliners coming for a landing at Lindbergh Field. We could look out our second floor side window and see the folks in their cars on southbound I-5. DW and I lived there from 1967 thru 1969.

I think I know the building. Kind of tall and skinny? Don't mean to be bragging. That's just the way it is in San Diego. Gardening is a year round activity. Sometimes I miss the seasons though. Here there are just two seasons, dry season and rainy season.

 

[boggybranch]

Shoot, hoot....that ain't no ditch for a jumpin horse. And you are, DEFINITELY, a jumpin horse.

 

[ninnymary]

O.K. snow people (lesa, smiles, etc.) it's really hard for me to imagine that you can't garden yet. Barely starting your tomatoe seeds?

Good thing I don't know how to post pictures because you would be jealous! lol. I already have my tomatoes, peppers, zuchini, butternut squash, mesclun, spinach, carrots, beets, swiss chard, cilantro, leeks, onions, strawberries, peas, sugar snap peas, and bok choy in. All in a very small garden. O.k. I guess I was bragging.

Mary

 

[digitS']

Brag away! I love to think that somewhere, someone is gardening -- all the time !

I've even picked out my location in the southern hemisphere where I could turn up the 1st of October for another season of growing . But, it is nearly April. That's the opposite of October 1st !

I used to claim that March was my Month for Cultivation. I could never finish; especially because it used to take me 3 weeks. Then, I turned over the turning over of the big garden to the "Tractor Guy." (That has meant that there have been late Aprils when I've been desperate to get him in there! :/)

Well, this year . . . once again, March is on its way out and I haven't been able to start! But, I got a jump on things last fall by having completed the little veggie garden. And, I think we will just let cultivating the cutting garden go this spring.

That's an advantage of growing ALL the dahlias there last year and moving the other flower beds off to be neighbors in the big veggie garden. With years of input to the soil in the cutting garden and digging out (carefully) dahlia roots in October -- I really just need to work in some fertilizer, straighten out the ground, and punch planting holes with the posthole digger (aka: the most hated tool on the farm ).

Ah, the straightening out of the ground . . . it will be a lot of work everywhere, that I always underestimate! Especially after that Tractor Guy gets finished messing up the big veggie garden!

digitSteve
after about 3.5" of March precip with 45mph winds forecast for today

 

[vfem]

Bravo Hoodat! I bet you are still further ahead then I am! I haven't even gotten dirt in the raised beds my tomatoes are going in. I am so behind its not even funny... not even a little bit.

You seem to be doing better then find though, its just the end of March. Even if you need a couple more weeks, you'll get tomatoes in plenty of time.