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I buy most of my plants from a local gardening club. They are already climatized to this area so they grow better. I bought two small yucca plants, a lily I don't know the name of and four Naked Lady bulbs (spider lilies) and two Lady Banks Roses to climb on my fence out front. They grow very...

I planted 6 tomatoes today, 2 cherry, 2 Romas and 2 Celebrity. We also got the chicken wire around the veggie bed to keep the bunnies out.

Wait 'til it warms up and then it will get active. I found rhubarb coming up today that I planted last year. Our peas and carrots are up. DH planted red potatoes. He thought he'd try some of those this year. If the weather is nice tomorrow after I get back from the hospital (DH is having a...

I can't plant a darned thing today....we have wind from h------ . As they say"this too shall pass" but until it does I have to satay inside and wait for the dust to stop blowing. My trees are flowering though and daffodils are so pretty. I will do inside work today and hope for no wind tomorrow.

We put in four rows of red potatoes over the weekend and the green peas are up about 4 inches. The onions are beginning to poke through also. I'm hoping by weekend I can plant my tomatoes and put them under cover if it turns cold again and I want to plant some turnip and mustard seed. Winds...

A good thing you've planted them in the house. I don't know where in CA you live but I just read a weather alert for our area and snow levels can drop to 2,000 feet tonight. I'm in the desert area north of Mojave. I haven't planted my tomatoes yet although if I did I could cover them. It's...

keep them moist, don't let them dry out. They'll need some light, if not from a window then from a light bulb. To keep them humid it helps to put a tent of plastic over them but if your basement is damp then they should be all right. Lot's of luck.

It's unofficially spring here also. The fruit trees are in bloom and so are the flowering plum and flowering peach. I have the climbers planted and yesterday DH planted onions and his peas are up. Our last day for frost is the 15th but we could get some later on into April. I bought a 6 pack...

I love it here and I came over from BYC also. I have to share. I live in the desert so it can be pretty bare except this with with all the rain we'll have wildflowers galore. My daffodils are in bloom and so are my flowering plum, flowering peach and my fruit trees, plum, & apricot are in...

I'm in that high desert area where I've been told nothing grows....well, that is debatable. It's zone 8b and anything will grow with adequate water, ammended soil and will tolerate cold winters, hot summers and dry winds. We'll have beautiul wildflowers this spring as we've had lots of rain...

raining again in the desert....Yeah!!!!!!!! the wildflowers will be lovely this year. I can't work in the garden today but might plant some seeds in peat pots indoors. When it stops raining I want to plant the other climbing rose. Will wait until after March 15th to plant tomatoes. The...

I'm in zone 8b and we're in w wind advisory. It's blown from the north all night and today so can't do any more planting until it goes down. There was new snow on the mountains this morning but we didn't get any rain from it. Have an atemesia to plant and another climbing rose and seeds...

I'm in zone 7b and it's been nice here until yesterday. We are in a wind advisory (common for us) of 35-40 mph with wind gusts up to 60mph. Can't work outside today due to blowing dust but yesterday I planted one of my new climbing roses (Jacob's Coat) and planted sweet peas. My husband has...

Sorry you've been poorly-get better soon. Another use for clay pots.....fill the bottom hole like you do for in ground watering. Place it in a pot with no drainage holes and in the space between the two fill with vermiculite. Place cuttings for rooting in the vermiculite and keep water in the...

Hattie, I really found the blog interesting. I will have to try the terra cotta pots. Another thing people mite be interested in is something I do with my trees. In the desert the drip water will evaorate on the surface before it gets down to the roots so the trees get to be shallow rooted...

Sandy, You don't say where you are. Tell us about your gardening, please.

Welcome North Pole , AK. I bet gardening is a challenge with your growing periods. Let us know what you grow and how you do it. I though I was bad with desert gardening with little water but you have me beat by a mile or three.:welcome

We have peas and carrots in the ground but nothing else in the veggie department. I put some sweet peas to soak this morning and tomorrow I'll plant them. They're supposed to be heat tolerant and that's what we need her. March 15th is our listed day of "last frost" here in zone 8b so I'm...

The info on here is fantastic whether it is gardening or pertaining to chickens or hobbies. Being female I get a lot out of the crochet, knitting and quilting site.

Just put in peas and lettuce and just bought two bare root climbing roses to plant. A friend gave me a pot of Artemisia so I have it to plant also. I need to get the sweet peas in also. We had rain and I had to stop until it was over.