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[Nabubrush]

My tomato starts are just tearing it up. We are strongly considering putting them in the ground today. How are yours doing? We already have the potatoes, peas, and chard in the ground, and the Bok Choi, Broccoli, and Kohlrabi are starting very nicely.

I didn't know where to put this, but this is the food section.

[wombat]

I'm going to have to try to refrain from reading this thread, because it is torture to be reminded that there are places where people can put tomatoes outside on March 15th.

Carry on.

[Nabubrush]

I lived in Alaska for some thirty years, god damn it. Don't be harsh. I fuck*ng love it here.

Also, given that some denizens (I love that word) of this board are considering relocation, I think we should take this opportunity to reflect upon what makes our present location so appealing to us.

Also, Papa Was a Rolling Stone. And Built To Spill is recording in Portland as we speak (type) and a friend of mine has an open invitation to go to the sessions.

[AugustWest]

Dang, I haven't even planted lettuce yet.  It's been an exceptionally cold (and wet) March here.  Couldn't dig even if I had time to.  But soon, soon.

[Nabubrush]

It's been unseasonably hot here. I remember wandering around in May and stomping chunks of ice apart. Did I mention that I don't miss that? The crazy weather part? Did I mention that?

[AlohaDawg]

Also, given that some denizens (I love that word) of this board are considering relocation, I think we should take this opportunity to reflect upon what makes our present location so appealing to us.

It's always nice weather here. Rebecca's in this great Charter School. Our Church is extremely loving and giving. I can see the ocean from my house.
It feels more like home than any place I've lived, but I can't figure if it's because of the age of my kids or because I'm just tired of moving around.

Speaking of planting stuff, we planted this about a year ago:
Our Baby

Top View

It's not very big and it's been going for a long time, but we're pretty tickled it's growing at all...

[Nabubrush]

That's pretty rocking.

[pmcd9]

The Tomatos are going in this weekend.

~Paul

[Pedro Picasso]

Speaking of planting stuff, we planted this about a year ago:
Our Baby

Top View

It's not very big and it's been going for a long time, but we're pretty tickled it's growing at all...

Am I the only one that expected to see pictures of an actual baby on the other side of those links?

[V-Adore]

Speaking of planting stuff, we planted this about a year ago:
Our Baby

Top View

It's not very big and it's been going for a long time, but we're pretty tickled it's growing at all...

Am I the only one that expected to see pictures of an actual baby on the other side of those links?

Nope.

That said, it's a lovely pineapple, AD. I should see if the one my folks were working on ever came along to any degree. It, too, was tiny and cute.

[side_show]

Hi all!

We still have a nice hard frozen layer of snow on the ground here and always do until the middle or end of April.  Last year at the end of March I started my tomatoes, melons and squash in trays, then we got a freak snow storm in May the week I was prepairing to put them out!  So I kept them inside, they got all leggy and all the melons died.  In the end when I did put them out, the squash basically took over the garden.  I still have four spaghetti squash left at this point!

Anyhoo,

Since this is the gardening corner, a little advice from those in the know would do nicely:

As some of you already know, my SO and I are having a  house built and will tenitivly move in July 1st.  The only problem with this is that I planted a really extensive amount of bulbs in fall, and have a lot of perrenials in the ground that just got established this year (it was originally our plan to stay at the house we're renting for 5 years while we saved for a house, but then there was this gov't program, etc, etc). So we'll be moving to a house in the middle of summer, that will be totally un landscaped, and that we will likely not have much $$ to landscape until next summer.  So my plan is to dig up anything we want to keep - lilies, ivy etc, and put them in buckets, keep them watered etc..  This is going to be a lot of work, then try an at least get some soil in by fall to winter everything.  Is this realistic?  Will all this effort lead to a lot of dead perrenials in buckets? Should I just leave everything behind and start fresh and to hell with the expense?  

Green thumbs, ahoy!

[pmcd9]

Sideshow, you should cozy up to your neighbors next spring.  The ones with gardens anyway.  Most gardeners love to share thier bounty.  Besides they don't want your yard looking bad, it makes the whole street look bad.  When they are thinning out their beds next season they will surely give you something to get yours started with.  It might not be exactly what you want, but beggers can't be choosers and all that.

~Paul

[wombat]

I say dig stuff up till you get tired of digging and water it till you get tired of watering and you'll probably salvage at least some of it, and what do you have to lose?  For the perennials anyway - finding where you buried the bulbs sounds like too much trouble.

But you should do what Paul says also.

[AugustWest]

If you're moving in the summer you should be able to transplant your perinnials.  Bulbs can be dug up and replanted in the fall, really as late as you can dig (I planted a bunch in November.)  I think you can do the same thing with lillies and iris.

[arkabee]

I think we should take this opportunity to reflect upon what makes our present location so appealing to us.

i spent last week in Mexico.  Upon returning, to herebouts, it turns out that i'd much rather be here than there.  I am apparently getting older and more ornery to things that are not the way that they are supposed to be.

It's not so much that here is so very appealing, it's just that it's the way it's supposed to be so damned consistently, even when that way is so wrong.

the tomatoes, however, really were not good down there.  i was surprised.

my gf is in process of buying a house, so we may end up starting a garden or plants or something involving vegetation and the necessity of watering to avoid its death.  and pruning.