Gardeners! Share your garden photos and garden chatter here.

[cgw]

Ready to roll with this experiment, assumption being Spring will show up sometime soon after the Fri-Sat snow dump!

How to Winter Sow Seeds & Recommended Sowing Schedule

Winter sowing is a seed starting method that makes use of outdoor conditions (cold weather and sunshine) to germinate seeds when it's freezing outside. Grab old milk jugs or other containers to act like mini greenhouses and let's get started.

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[SquarePeg]

Went to Costco today - 8 dahlia tubers for $14! That’s such a bargain.

 

[terri]

Ready to roll with this experiment, assumption being Spring will show up sometime soon after the Fri-Sat snow dump!

How to Winter Sow Seeds & Recommended Sowing Schedule

Winter sowing is a seed starting method that makes use of outdoor conditions (cold weather and sunshine) to germinate seeds when it's freezing outside. Grab old milk jugs or other containers to act like mini greenhouses and let's get started.

empressofdirt.net

Take some pictures when the shoots start poking through the dirt!

 

[adamhiram]

One of my pandemic projects was learning how to propagate plants from cuttings. These basil plants are derived from a single cutting I took in fall of 2019, and the plants are still going strong! This is a caddy I designed and 3D printed to hold 6 bottles used for cuttings that keeps them organized and makes it easier to move them around.


20230303-DSC_7775a by adamhiram, on Flickr


20230303-DSC_7776a by adamhiram, on Flickr

 

[Rickbb]

False spring will be over this week, highs go from 70 tomorrow down to 45 by Friday.

Anyway, it finally dried out enough to get some tilling done. Even managed to set out the sugar snap seedlings that started in the greenhouse. Broccoli seedlings have their first true leaves and will be ready to go in the ground soon.

No gardening post would be complete without the obligatory spring flower pics.

Blueberries, this variety is an early one, but it's still weeks too soon.

Crabapple and Yellow Bells are in full show mode.

 

[Rickbb]

Just noticed the pocket Cannon has the date stamp turned on. Crap, sorry about that.

 

[SquarePeg]

Love seeing everyone’s ingenuity. Gardening really brings out the creativity!!

 

[terri]

One of my pandemic projects was learning how to propagate plants from cuttings. These basil plants are derived from a single cutting I took in fall of 2019, and the plants are still going strong! This is a caddy I designed and 3D printed to hold 6 bottles used for cuttings that keeps them organized and makes it easier to move them around.


20230303-DSC_7775a by adamhiram, on Flickr


20230303-DSC_7776a by adamhiram, on Flickr

That is really cool, Adam! Great way to keep fresh basil around. I love basil and use a lot of it, but there have been seasons when I've seen some poor plant quality coming from the various nurseries, leaf spot and wilt, etc. This is ingenious!

 

[Original katomi]

Opps put my post on the coffee house.

 

[SquarePeg]

 

[vintagesnaps]

The daffodil is the 'official' village flower here. Nice, Charlie!

Sharon, my mom tried growing bags for potatoes, they didn't turn out that great. Very small from what I remember. My dad was a good gardener so they used to have tomatoes and whatnot.

Nothing here yet but brown dirt. That and gray skies coming, it's a regular paradise! Got quite awhile til corn etc. gets going, too early for any action going to the mill down the street. And I don't see anything coming out of the ground yet... maybe April.

 

[wobe]

Went out for a stroll last night and took a shot of the plant stalls which line the main shopping thoroughfare.

Always interesting to see the different varieties and a large area behind these stalls dedicated to colourful potted Bougainvillea.

My parents were avid gardeners and so I grew up with late summer evenings clipping hedges, mowing lawns, dig up tree stumps and tending to the vegetable garden - all until the sun went down - plus the huge bonfire of garden waste (probably not allowed today!)

 

[terri]

Went out for a stroll last night and took a shot of the plant stalls which line the main shopping thoroughfare.

Always interesting to see the different varieties and a large area behind these stalls dedicated to colourful potted Bougainvillea.

My parents were avid gardeners and so I grew up with late summer evenings clipping hedges, mowing lawns, dig up tree stumps and tending to the vegetable garden - all until the sun went down - plus the huge bonfire of garden waste (probably not allowed today!)

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Omg, I'd go nuts in there. I see Lemongrass, herbs, cherry tomatoes, philodendrons - there's no doubt I'd overbuy like a fool with Spring Fever.

 

[Original katomi]

Hi just a quick run round my back garden.

 

[Original katomi]

Well that’s a quick tour, I mainly do veg but for the last two years I have done some flowers. 60 plus this year. The raised planters are inter cropped. Onions, broad beans in two, in the last I have added two flowers to the mix. I have also planted marigolds in with the beans,,, but they have not grown yet.
I did spuds in the raised planter last year… poor return for the amount of space used. The tomatoes did much better.
I plan to intercrop beetroot with late broad beans and a 3rd crop of onions.
Will post images of front garden when I have defrosted……