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7:18 pm
February 10, 2009
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Absolutely you can plant it now! It probably won't bear fruit this year, but it should be fine now even if it frosts again.
7:07 am
March 25, 2010
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Well, according to "the signs" today is a good day for planting leafy stuff and stuff that fruits. So, into the ground go my tomatos, peppers, squash, and cukes. I've had em under lights for a while and I'm worried they might get leggy on me if I don't get em out the bathroom soon. I planted peas, lettuce, spinach, and some bunching onions a few weekends ago and am please to say that the peas apparently LOVE my dirt. The lettuce kinda likes it, spinach is still trying to decide, but the poor onions seem like they'd rather stay hidden. Potatoes are doing well though! My strawberry bed is running riot with tiny little flowers, so maybe there's some strawberry canning in my future as well! And the bed we prepped for the asparagus is looking lonely, so maybe that'll get started today too.
Also, gonna get out and work on my herb garden today. I'm putting it in a place that's never been worked, but also doesn't have grass. I'm not sure what the previous owners intended for this spot, but it's been screaming herb garden to me since we moved in.
Also, I have some moon flower and morning glory seeds that I want to start. I've never done flowers from seed before; do i need to start them under lights or can I just stick em in the ground?
Holy cow. When it's all written out like this, it sure seems like I may be in over my head a little! Gonna be a busy weekend!
8:12 am
February 10, 2009
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I don't know anything about moon flowers except they're close cousins, but morning glories are fussy about being disturbed once planted, and they germinate better if you soak them first. I planted in peat pots one year so their roots wouldn't be bothered and it worked, but you can't let them dry out at ALL if you do that.
They're fussy when you're just starting them, but once they get going, MAN do they go!
Since the seeds aren't expensive, I just planted a LOT of them the next year and then had to thin them! Go figure! 
8:18 am
September 6, 2009
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Put that raspberry in the ground. Just be sure to water it until you can tell it is starting to take off again. This time last year we planted a bunch of raspberry shoots and now have a nice little patch. We even got a few berries—a handful here and there, enough to eat in the garden or save to put on cereal or in yogurt.
You can just plant the morning glory seeds and they will do fine. Just make sure you water them if you are not getting sufficient rain. One year we had a dry spring and I didn't even think to water the seeds and then was wondering why they took so long to come up.
Last night my hubby planted some spinach and lettuce. I am looking forward to those coming up so we can have some tasty salads. I am hoping next week to go to a friends and get some of her strawberry runners. I am also hoping to get some perrenials from another friend. One of the things I LOVE the most about gardening in sharing plants. I love to walk around and think "oh—those are from great-grandma, and those are from my sister, and I love the berries from another friend…………". It makes me happy when I do that, and I love the whole "heritage" thing of having plants that were from your family and passed on down. We have a huge patch of lovely wild roses that my husband's grandmother had brought from her family's homestead when she married his grandpa and moved to Michigan.
8:42 am
October 17, 2008
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My little raspberry bush started from my great grandfather south of Lansing, then my grandfather took a start to his property, then my dad took a start of that to the U.P, and a couple years ago, I brought a start of Dad's back down state!! So that patch that was started years (and years) ago has traveled many miles. 
10:06 am
September 6, 2009
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I love that story Cindy 
10:39 pm
This is my first year for raspberries, for some reason! 
Everywhere I looked, there were raspberries!! It got ridiculous… Brandywine, Everbearing, Latham, and some that were marked half price and looked healthy!! TWELVE in all, and that is truly ridiculous, considering how they spread. Plus four thornless blackberries. 
("I see… Jam Jars…")
Has anyone tried the golden raspberries? Names are Fall Gold and Kiwi, that I can remember. No nursery nearby carries them, but I sure would love to add them.
I know they bear on two year old growth, and after they bear you are supposed to cut those canes out and discard, but are there any other tips?
Nothing is edible yet in my garden, Cos and Salad Bowl lettuce are up, tomatoes planted from seed are about 2 inches tall, 5 or 6 squash plants have 4 leaves, and all the little onions are growing visibly day by day. Snow peas… well, the chickens got most of them, but there may be a few later.
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