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living where we do does have some advantages but we sometimes get snow since we live at 2500 feet and our winters have some very bad winds. The winds are what does the most damage.

I heard about your blizzard that went up the east coast. I have family in NC and it hit them. It's cold here in zone 8B and not much is happening in the garden. I do need to get out and clean up the iris bed and a few other areas. Once the daffodils start coming up I'll begin my planting...

we planted about 10 bags of steer manure Wednesday so our veggies should do well this coming spring.

My husband and I planted10 fence posts today in preparation for spring. I'm tired of having rabbits destroy my flowers so we're making a secure area to keep them out. They can't get into the rose and bearded iris bed or the veggie garden but they love to eat my flowers that come up in the...

I envy you your citrus trees. I live in the high desert and they don't do well here. I do have peach and apricot but they aren't doing as well as I like. It's hard to grow things here. We at least do well with a veggie garden. It gets so, so hot here and we have such desicating winds not to...

I'd like to skip winter this year also. There's been so much I didn't get done and we have a freeze warning for tonight so have to get outside and do some protecting.

Roses also like coffee grounds, banana peels and beer. If the leaves turn green and fall off and you don't see bugs it might be getting too much water.

Transplant your rose when the bare root roses are on sale in your area. I live in the high desert in CA and bare root roses go on sale after the first of the year. Be sure and prune it back before you move it and give it vitamin B-1 after moving it to prevent shock. Roses are very hardy and I...

Hesperia isn't too far from me either.

The heat has got to my tomatoes but today I put four bags of yellow squash and a bag of zucchini in the freezer and two containers of zucchini grated to make zucchini bread later on. My Butternut squash has some almost ready to eat. The green beans we planted are up and should have beans...

wifezilla, I like your picture of what to wear when hunting. I will have to try the oyster shells. The local garden club here said to use 3 tbsp of epsom salts and the same of sugar and bury them deep. Will try the oyster shells next year. Thanks again.

You're all so lucky you have those tomatoes. Mine just didn't do much this year. The cherry tomatoes are all right, it's the full size that haven't done well. We had such a crazy spring this year with late frosts and then suddenly turned hot. My soil might bot be quite right either. It's...

Collards and cauliflower sound so good. We just planted more beans today and carrots. Our Butternut squash is coming along so good and we're eating zucchini and summer squash almost every other day. I'm not too happy that my tomatoes didn't do as well as in the past but growing in the high...

I've planted pole beans twice and something has eaten them when they get about six inches tall. I suspect rabbits because we have a lot of them here in the high desert.

The only tomatoes that are doing anything here are the six cherry tomato plants my neighbor gave me. I planted Celebrity and Goliath and boh usually do good here but our weather has been crazy in the high desert. We had a cooler than normal May and the it turned hot really fast. The plants...

I replanted pole beans since the first ones planted got eaten by the rabbits. I put wire around this second batch and hope that will cover the problem. I planted red potatoes just so I'd have them to go with my beans. The butternut squash is now growing good with several squash about 4 inches...

I'm finished gardening for now. I'm just sitting back and watching my garden grow. It is hot now in the high desert but taomatoes, potatoes, and summer squash are doing well. The zucchini and butternut are just now developing fruit. The green peas are finished and we have quite a few bags in...

sounds good to me too.

I thought I was done but we had to plant beans a second time and this morning found that the bunnies had got the new beans so I have to plant again. Guess I'll have to put wire around them :he

It sounds like you had a busy day.