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I always wait later to plant than many other gardeners. I know how unpredictable our weather can be. Monday night will be below freezing, then back up into the 70s by midweek. I can wait a bit longer.

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Hey, Lawrence! Good luck with the seeds. I'll try some of the seeds that you are experimenting with - especially the onions and cucumbers. I live on the 21st floor with a balcony, so I'll try the outside the bottom of the container tomatoes, although I'm afraid I'll need to erect a TALL framework to suspend the plants. The stupid balcony will probably look like the hanging gardens of Babylon! Of course my main problem is wind at that height - my poor vegetables will end up in Delaware from Virginia!!

Best of luck with the plants!!

Dr John

Planting away. Herb garden and flower garden in the back yard also threw in a few vegtables with the flowers.
Stephanos I
Advocate of every home a garden!

I have a real problem with white-fly. This gooey stuff gets all over certain plants (tomatoes especially, although also my pansies.) But doesn't seem to affect the herbs. Strange! I don't like using the usual "ORtho" poisons, especially on stuff that will make it to the kitchen.

Any suggestions?

Dr John

I dont know but marigolds help ward off other insects.
Stephanos I
And used grapefruit halves turned upside down make good slug traps. you just throw them im the garbage after a few days.
Saucers of beer also work, the get intoxicated and drown the poor things.

I have problems with squirrels and small birds, which is why I am going to start with peppers. They have it coming if they eat those peppers.

Terry

Thanks Dr John. Monday I planet some Evergreen Bunching Onions, and today I'll probably buy some starter trays for the tomatoes, sweet peppers and cucumbers. I figure with the spacious yard I have, and the relatively low price of seeds, even if things don't grow the way I want, it won't be much of a loss.

Thanks for the words, Brother Lawrence. I plant any number of different things on the balcony - some things work, others get nailed by the whitefly. But to be perfectly honest, I just love being out there and watering and tending. It's really a spiritual quest and a true endeavor that strips away all the craziness of my life. When a cala lily sprouts up and then blooms, I'm just incredibly happy even if I have to deal with the pests and the funguses.

Best wishes with the onions!!

JB

We had a significant frost last night and Monday evening (frost on the windshield when I went into work), so I am still holding off for another week or so. Manure has been placed and worked in and everything is ready.

All of the surrounding ranchers are burning pastures off; spring is finally in the air with the wondrous spring night light shows of burning prairie horizon to horizon. The lambs are all born, and the shearer cometh.

Basil (for liturgical usage and spice), cucumbers, tomatoes, several varieties of peppers, dill, some other herbs and eventually pumpkins are all slated for this year, and my wife already has the flower beds ready to go as well. Still thinking about the eggplant as well as the asparagus.
FDRLB

Today I bought a bunch of little peat pots to begin growing in the front window. At 7 cents a piece I don't think you can go wrong (didn't think there was anything you could buy for 7 cents) And I got some organic spinach and Mammoth Sun Flowers to attract Bees. Already planted a few at the back of my yard. Supposedly they grow 12 feet high.

Father Stephanos:

Father bless!!

Actually I think that the sweetnes in the beer draws them and the alcohol in it dissolves the slime that protects them. That has part to do with what does them in.

BOB

My grandgirls forbid grandpa to harm any "Garys" or relatives looking for shells...

james

That's hilarious!

Dave