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glitz/jo posted an update Tuesday, Mar 20, 2012, 3:47pm EDT, 12 years, 1 month ago
hi everyone. i have started back work in the greenhouse so i have been so worn out i haven't made it in here for awhile. it gets harder every year for my old body to adjust to the work......but i enjoy it so much.
i am in kansas......west of kansas city......and got wild and reckless and tossed out some mesclun mix seed about a week ago, i have 1/2" high sprouts now.....but if we go back into winter i will lose them. this has been such a warm winter here......as it has almost all over the US.......that it is way too tempting to get seeds planted too early. i do have some in trays in the greenhouse that i planted for myself, some asparagus i want to try growing here and foxglove, delphinium, lupine.....all those plants that don't survive the kansas heat and droughts but that i love and just can't stop trying to grow.
at the greenhouse i work at, we grow hydroponic tomatoes.......i was shocked when i first tasted one because it tasted as good as any i pick in august from my garden! so we had some left over that we didn't have room for and i brought some home a couple of weeks ago......they are in their pots on my front porch and i thought i would post some pics here as every time i look at them i am just amazed!
http://imageevent.com/glitzytreasures/tomatoplants2012very interesting to hear about the plants from QVC! i will look into those.
my dwarf peach and nectarine trees are in bloom......their 3rd year and i am hoping to get some fruit from them this year. the two cherry trees are struggling along, they just have had very disappointing growth.
miniature narcissis have bloomed and almost gone, the full size ones are blooming now as are hyacinths.
i have my potatoes ready to plant but it has rained every day so i have not ventured out to set up the 'cage' to put them in. this year i am going to use a big wire dog enclosure in the garden and try to grow the potatoes in straw in it. i really only grow them for the new potatoes anyway so might be able to reuse the area for a fall crop of something else.i enjoyed catching up and readign all the posts today.....is there a way to tell what gardening area everyone is from? perhaps i will try to change my name to 'glitz7' so it can be seen right away what zone i am gardening in........anyone else think putting our zones in our posting names would be a good idea?