Entries from March 2004
I wanted to get my tomatoes started so I could put them out in Walls o’Water a month early. Had some Early Girl seed left but not the others I thought I had. So I quickly place a couple of seed order. My favorite small tomato is Gardener’s Delight, which Park used to carry. Now I can only find it in Burpee, where the seed padkets are more expensive as are their shipping rates. Oh, well. I like this tomato because it is a little larger than a cherry, very sweet and doesn’t inundate you with more tomatoes than you can eat (or pick). It is also within the 60 day range which I need up here. The …
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This is probably not the only British gardening blog out there, but it’s one of the few that has a link to my blog, enabling me to find it by looking at my stats. Jane Perrone, a writer for the Guardian, has recently started a blog called Horticultural. C’mon, Jane, as a writer you surely can come up with something a bit more inspiring than that for the name of your blog. Jane is looking for recommendations for a digital camera, so stop by and let her know of any good ones. She’s got a pretty good quote at the top of her blog, too, though in Opera I couldn’t see all of it. I’m looking forward to …
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Alice Nelson will also be contributing her insights and experiences as a cold climate gardener. Alice is from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. You can read a little more about her and her gardening situation in the comments to the previous post about Paul, our other new contributor, and I’m sure she’ll be filling in the details in the near future.
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I’ve just invited Paul Apfelbeck of Alaska to join this blog and contribute his experiences gardening in a very cold climate. I’ll let him introduce himself and describe his gardening conditions. I hope we’ll be hearing from you frequently, Paul!
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Well, the first blossom was a snowdrop, but it wasn’t any of the snowdrops I’ve been checking on regularly. It was a clump of double snowdrops given to me by my garden buddy Bub, which I had planted near my Cornus alternifolia ‘Argentea’ (now deceased) and had forgotten about. This bed is located in the southwesternmost corner of our property, and I can’t say I had ever thought of it as particularly precocious, horticulturally speaking. Maybe that’s why the pagoda dogwood died: got awakened early from dormancy and then zapped by a killer freeze. I am still …
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Tags: bloom_dates· bloom_records· snowdrop· Snowdrops
The link to the Hort. conference in Idaho is dysfunctional now. Fitting for a state that schedules its Nursery Association conference in January every year. Would you drive nearly 500 miles over icy mountain roads to sit in meetings for a week? Neither would I. Luckily, there was a nice sustainable ag conference much nearer last week, when the roads were much safer. This one was in Creston, BC Canada, just over the line from here. Take a look at the specs and the speakers. This was targeted at growers & marketers and good for a first time effort. They also have a great summer gardening event each year, full of …
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I think it’s just a mid-winter thaw–we usually get at least one major storm in March. Anyway, the good news is that I potted on all 156 of my leeks. The bad news is that somehow our several years old bag of soil-less potting soil is full of weed seeds. Weeding has already begun, and I haven’t even gotten anything in the ground yet!
I also started some lettuce, and a few tomatoes. Despite everyone saying how wonderful the wall-o-waters work, I’m still a bit wary of putting all of my eggs in one basket, at least for the first year. Maybe next year I’ll be comfortable enough to start them all in early March, but this year I’m going …
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