I don't remember which ones crocus are. But, all my jonny jump-up whatever things have come and gone. 75% of my daffodils are up. Tulips are starting to sprout. Will probably start seeds next weekend. I'm not convinced that we won't have one more hard freeze this year.

No crocus bulbs, but waiting on the tulips and hyacinth to show up.

No seeds, but I am going to be trying to grow shiatake, Oyster and Lions Mane mushrooms by propagating Oak logs. This should be kind of fun.

No landscaping projects as we redid everything two years ago. Time for a new application of mulch though.

Second week of April we'll start getting all the annuals and veggies for the window boxes and planters.

Oh. There was a link?

Well, alrighty, then. Yes. Those things are up.

My plum tree is all flowery.

I'm unsure if I want to go all out for a garden this year. With the drought, everything died last year. I couldn't water enough to save it.

I am wanting to put in a simple patio this spring. I'd like to be able to sit outside in the evenings. It'd have to be wood tho, cause brick would get too hot in the sun.

Gonna have to wait and see if I can figure it out.

Crocus are up, as well as snow drops and winter acanthicite.
Daffodils are getting there, mostly just greenery at the moment.

As usual, i have winter clean up to do, then we'll see where the old man want to go with the garden this year.
/ heard him ordering leeks and onion, so there's my hint.
// been raining so much that it's not tilling, it's mud turning.

Earpj: My plum tree is all flowery.

I'm unsure if I want to go all out for a garden this year. With the drought, everything died last year. I couldn't water enough to save it.

I am wanting to put in a simple patio this spring. I'd like to be able to sit outside in the evenings. It'd have to be wood tho, cause brick would get too hot in the sun.

Gonna have to wait and see if I can figure it out.

Yeah, last year's garden was depressing. Even my hops didn't do much of anything.
/ the onion were about the size of a sad lacrosse ball, but WOW were they strong.

How does your garden grow?

Green? They could have at least done some minor editing to the headline first.

My grass looks like hell, though.

Crocus' are up. Recently built a cold frame and got it planted up.

I'm really looking forward to a big garden.

We (sadly) don't have any crocuses in our yard here. The daffodils are coming up, though, so yay!

We're planning on putting in three raised beds in the backyard... the dirt here is terrible, all clay, and our gardens have suffered for the last couple years because of it. Even with all those additives and stuff. Last year only the squash and the pickling cucumbers did well... the pumpkins flowered but didn't start putting out fruit until the very end of the growing season, and the corn only made it halfway there before giving up.

We always do tomatoes and peppers in potted containers on the deck so it's easier to regulate their water.

I have daffodils, tulips and crocus in bloom and hope to start bean and pea seeds this week [outside, but under cover]

Typical British spring: last Sunday it was warm and sunny and we were out tidying up the garden in shirt-sleeves, this Sunday it's cold we have sleety rain.



Miniature daffodils, Tete A Tete

MissFeasance: We're planning on putting in three raised beds in the backyard... the dirt here is terrible, all clay, and our gardens have suffered for the last couple years because of it. Even with all those additives and stuff. Last year only the squash and the pickling cucumbers did well... the pumpkins flowered but didn't start putting out fruit until the very end of the growing season, and the corn only made it halfway there before giving up.

Same with my last year's garden. Peas got about 12" tall and then just completely gave up. Corn stalks got to about 3 feet and then completely failed to generate any corn. The only thing I got out of the garden was two carrots and they were kinda small but, I ate them both in one sitting so, yay!

Having managed to kill almost everything I've put into the ground for the past three years, I don't think I'm going to even make the attempt this year.

I might try a fig in a 5 gallon bucket on my patio, though. I really like figs and who knows, it might actually survive (if I don't try putting it in the ground)

Roman Fyseek: The only thing I got out of the garden was two carrots and they were kinda small but, I ate them both in one sitting so, yay!

Ha! Considering the failure of everything else, we DID get a ton of cucumbers. I think we pickled two dozen jars. There is no shortage of pickles in this house, lol.

It's snowing on top of the eight inches we got on Friday, which is sitting on what seems to be four inches of mud.

Spring is another 7 weeks away.

Roman Fyseek: MissFeasance: We're planning on putting in three raised beds in the backyard... the dirt here is terrible, all clay, and our gardens have suffered for the last couple years because of it. Even with all those additives and stuff. Last year only the squash and the pickling cucumbers did well... the pumpkins flowered but didn't start putting out fruit until the very end of the growing season, and the corn only made it halfway there before giving up.

Same with my last year's garden. Peas got about 12" tall and then just completely gave up. Corn stalks got to about 3 feet and then completely failed to generate any corn. The only thing I got out of the garden was two carrots and they were kinda small but, I ate them both in one sitting so, yay!

Some years back friends of mine started a veg garden and were thrilled when their parsley grew. They carefully cut some and made fresh parsley sauce.
Later they cut more, and were less careful. The whole plant came up - lo and behold - a carrot!
They'd been making 'carrot tops' sauce...

My sympathy to everyone who ever spent time and money on home-grown veg, only to have it fail, be eaten by slugs, snails and other assorted bugs and pests or produce about enough for one meagre helping, or such a glut that friends and neighbours cross the road to avoid being presented with yet another cucumber or pile of tough, stringy runner beans :-)

The landscapers at my apartment complex put in all of the flowers in October and they've been blooming since.

/Arizona

Daffodils, crocus, tulips and other stuff all poking up. 25 degrees and heavy frost this morning.

I hate the Midwest.

/perspective: no tornadoes ate my house so what am I biatching about?

I'm doing my Master Gardener classes right now. I'm still in a rental, so I' setting my sights on a wading pool container garden. I've found a pretty awesome compost guy. I'm supposed to be out of town for 10 days at the end of the month though, so I think I might have to wait til after to get started.

My main concern is the grass. When I moved in the yard was 70% weeds, 30% blank dirt. Most of the yard is clay, which makes it a biatch to grow anything.

I'm slowly getting grass coverage. I spent yesterday digging up some sizable plots of nothing-but-weeds. I'll be planting grass in those spots either today or tomorrow.

I've got two bleeding heart bushes that are usually up by now but bloom over Easter weekend. I haven't seen a trace of it, this year.

We just had a major blizzard with around 16" of wet, heavy snow. Power outages are widespread and the trees have taken a vicious beating. So no, no flowers up yet.

/northern lower Michigan

It appears the nondescript bush on my patio is an azalea bush (new window), with bonus oak tree.



I have pretty much ignored the stuff growing on my patio. I'm a gardening fiend.

Thing on the left is the bleeding heart thing. Just went out and looked at the ground where it should be and all there is is last year's leftover stem.

i wont start anything until may when i know the weather is staying warm

LlamaGirl: i wont start anything until may when i know the weather is staying warm

Kyro: "May? Isn't she in the midwest? How cold can it be in April?"

Location: St. Paul

Kyro: "Oh."

Kyro: Kyro: "Oh."

Yep.

Peppers, tomatoes, okra, basil, and chives are 3 weeks old. I potted them up yesterday and they seem happy indoors under the lights.

I'm going to see if I can run burried plastic drainpipes off my downspout out to the curb and stop the river that's washing away all my mulch and soil every time it rains, HOA may raise a gripe though.

I have an onion in my kitchen that seems to be sprouting. Does that count for anything?

Carrots are starting to sprout. Onions are still going strong. Dill and basil are still working to sprout. Too early to plant cucumbers or serrano peppers, and I need to start my tomatoes.

I don't have the room in our backyard to do it right, so I've always had a huge 20x20 raised bed at my mom's. But I've decided not to plant veggies this year. It's too hard to get out there enough to maintain it and besides, I live for farmers' markets. I'll still plant tomatoes and herbs, but they can't go in the ground until after Mother's Day.


We might pull out the front lawn and start over out there, but that's still in the early early planning stages.

iamrex: I don't have the room in our backyard to do it right, so I've always had a huge 20x20 raised bed at my mom's. But I've decided not to plant veggies this year. It's too hard to get out there enough to maintain it and besides, I live for farmers' markets. I'll still plant tomatoes and herbs, but they can't go in the ground until after Mother's Day.


We might pull out the front lawn and start over out there, but that's still in the early early planning stages.

I can't plant any veggies in the ground do the deerfestation around my part of Iowa. Everything that's edible goes into pots on our elevated deck.

This was what my winter window boxes looked like. Within two weeks the deer ate all of the cedar garland.



This was our summer window box. Midway through the summer the deer ate all of the potato vines (three green hanging plants)

IamKaiserSoze!!!: This was our summer window box

I think I've seen those window boxes before, and I envied them then too.

You must be somewhat OK with the deer, if you allow them to be so comfortable that they'll get that close to your house.