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Thinned all the physalis, crucifers, hamburg parsleys and tzimbalo pots tonight. Wowzers, it is SO easy to over sow. But you never know with seeds that aren't your own what the germ rates will be like, so you risk a late start if you don't overdo it sometimes. You almost have to anticipate...

3 new tomatoes sent to me from a preservation gardener in Germany, which I'm twirly bird thrilled are growing wonderfully and germinated at 100% (gardening world instagram is awesome!) And another one that is SUPER rare from Catalonia called Rose de L'Etern. I had a good laugh about this one...

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I had a similar experience with peas in 2020 @Blue-Jay . I planted peas in early May, a full month before the typical day for planting. Then we got half a foot of snow, that stayed for 3 days! I had planted out several different kinds of peas that year - smooth seeded and wrinkle seeded...

Got to tour around a bit more in the backyard garden today. 🥳 Still very wet, and some slushy snow out there but I tiptoed around carefully in a few rows. I was ASTONISHED to see that my Earth Chestnut (Bunium bulbocastaneum) plants still look rather alive and even greening up at the base...

The Hamburg parsley FINALLY emerged!! I had given up!! Thinning that will be interesting. Didn't seem like I sowed that much. Well, this is a firs , never grew the species before. The Devil's Claw are up too!!! The packet said to sow in April and so I aimed for mid. Got them from...

Seeing as you have so much experience with this, are there any links you could dm me about CW? I've read and watched so much contradictory info, and still am yet to figure out the reality.

Same. Too early and they just stall, later planted ones will often do better because they never got that interruption in growth.

The snow is finally 3/4 gone. 🥳 I've been able to wander around the front yard garden a little and see what's out there. The thyme is looking just like it did before the snow fell. It is a hardy plant, that's for sure. Nearly -50 C with good snow cover and it pulled through; I was expecting...

I grew up thinking riding a stallion was like riding a killer whale, according to what the adults said about them. But I recently saw one of my favorite dog trainers riding his horse, an Andalusian stallion, demonstrating some stuff he can do with him. So I wondered, is it more common that we...

I am SO excited! This tree is FINALLY going to come down. It's long overdue too, casting more and more shade on my garden withe every passing year. I've always used it's canopy of shade for acclimatizing plants in May, so I will miss having it for that. However, I'm thrilled to say adios...

I saw this article too, in my instagram feed. Haven't read through it all yet, just a cursory glance, but seems to bring up some relevant considerations; I've met 'freezer averse' seed saving folks. They think it's like Rip Van Winkle, with the associated issues. I'm not against freezers...

What I think I observed was that waiting until the very last moment is the ideal pick time. They seemed to me much slower to mature than typical tomatoes, almost selected to not truly mature during the season. So, probably, the longer they can stay on the plant the better. (However...

Got 1/2 the bean tags labeled! God bless the P-Touch Brother Label Machine (and @Decoy1!) 🏷️ Most tidy & professional tags I've ever made in my life! And I LOVE tidiness and precision!

Yesterday I posted about re-planting tomato seeds that hadn't germinated. And then today Auria, which sat there doing nothing for 11 days does this. And here I was sitting on a pin worried because the tomato is not offered in Canada anymore and now the original saved seeds might have...

Have you ever ridden a stallion? Or known someone who has?

Yes, I started the longkeepers at the same time as the others. This could turn out to be a bad idea, given that these are all new to me, so I'm not sure what they need. But in my experience last year with storage types, there was only one that I'd say needed to be started later than normal in...

I would say dogs that bark are afraid, and so bark to be threatening to encourage the scary thing to go away. In the big picture - barking, unpleasant as it can be, is a good thing. It means the dog really doesn't want to have to do anything serious to remove you, he'd rather threaten you &...

Replanted the few tomatoes that either only sprouted 1 plant, or none at all. Wasn't many of those, but a few. Luckily my seed suppliers had sent me plenty of seeds so I had more than enough where it was needed. Feels so great to check that off the list - tomatoes - DONE! Planted the...

Very nice @Decoy1 , what program do you use to create your tables? Google docs?