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I am going to be worn out from just reading all the buziness before I even get started. And a dirt and weed yard to start with. But, a clean slate, I guess.🌼🌻🌸😴
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planted my sweet potato slips today. Just 40. First year doing sweet potatoes, so we shall see.
Planted some tulip bulbs, red dazzles, cannas, tangelo flowers, and transplanted a bunch of iris.
I LOVE flowers. :)
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I have a single daffodil blooming in the melting snow and crusty ice. It’s not much, but I can see it from the walkway.
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CWillie, snowdrops are one of the first flowers I remember. As a small child I remember my mother having them in our yard and always telling me they were the first sign of spring. I always loved seeing them, still do. I now have some of the bulbs and have carried them with me through a good number of moves. Snowdrops always bring a smile and a sweet memory of mom
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Snowdrops! I have snowdrops!
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CW- It is a small farm. We have many gardens. Would like to have plots allowing town folks to have a place for a garden and grow their own food. I think it would be great for children. We have been experimenting with that. Also personalized gardens, growing specific foods foe individuals, to pick up weekly or monthly, that sort of thing. Lots of work. I also want a petting Zoo. :)
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Wow... such energy! I got two and a half raised beds cleaned. And got that first batch of garden aches and pains out of the way lol.
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Wow. I've wished I had a place for a larger garden but yours sound more like a farm than a garden smeshque, 800 potatoes!
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PB- I know, it has been a long day. But DH and I get determined and get er' done.
I definitely couldn't accomplish so much without his help, that is for sure.
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Hang in there Glad- Spring will come for you too. So sorry about the blizzard, stay warm. And,,,, I feel it now. :)
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smesque - WoW! Just wow!
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Smesh, you are an inspiration. But, just had blizzard here, it will be awhile. And yes, it s exercise and you will feel it tomorrow.
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Ah yes....therapeutic exercises we will call it.
Eating pineapple (the only natural occuring source of Bromelain) is the cure for those aches and pains.

Wondering....You gotta plant potatoes to get potatoes?
Why not just eat the ones you planted?
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planted our red potatoes today, over 800 of them. transplanted over 60 tomato babies. Transplanted some daffodil's. We got our pollinator bed ready a 30'X30', Dh got the fence up around it. We ordered our new bees and will place them in the pollinator garden instead of woods like last time. Started some Zucchini, Cucumbers, More tomatoes, Cantaloupe, More Peppers. And I can't remember what all else. Waiting on our Sweet Potato Slips to root. The winter wheat is so green and pretty and is drawing the deer out each day from the woods, they are beautiful to watch. But, unfortunately some around here also like to eat them.
So I guess that about does it for now. I am tired, Hope all that also counts in the exercise department. Spring has/is arrived. Hallelujah!!!
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Looks like a lion to me......
The windows are even roaring from the wind, in places they never have before.
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March has come in like a lamb🐑🌞
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Soon, there will be gardening!
Putting back our decorative fence (after changing it for Christmas),
Dh had to tear out some overgrowth, and, credit to him....he moved around some pavers. He is very good at brickwork, fitting them in just right, but with arthritis and a bad back, he has to be stopped before he over does it.

So much to be done, and Spring is just around the corner-or is it already here?
I plan to go easy on him, and also not do what has hurt me before. I am sitting while gardening now.
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PB- can't say for sure their age. They were given to us, and one was producing. But we have some new ones less than a year.
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Good for you meshque. I need to start some bean seedlings in the egg cartons. How old are your banana plants now? I hope some will have flowers soon. i also have banana plants in the backyard. Where I live, it takes about 1.5 years to see flowers and at least 6 months to get fruits.
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Have some veggies sprouted in the greenhouse. I was so surprised at how quickly they came up.
Banana Trees are still doing fine.

Thank you for the suggestion of Baker Creek Heirloom. I am going to check it out.

I guess that is all for now.
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Folks, you HAVE to check out Baker Creek Heirloom seeds catalog - they have some of the most unusual, amazing veggies this year. There's a corn called Glass Gem, that I grew a couple times - it's just gorgeous. It's not a sweet, eating corn - it's more of a cornmeal, popcorn corn, or a decorative one. My daughter and I try to get seeds from small sellers and that are open pollinated so we can save seeds. Sandhill Preservation seeds have always germinated well for me, and they charge a flat $3.00 for seed orders.
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Saw the ghost apples on the news this morning, beautiful! The wonders of nature!
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Glad, they’re made by Garden Genie. They’re really unique looking...like Martha Stewart meets Wolverine 😉
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I need gloves like that! Who makes them?
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It’s supposed to be in 50s tomorrow. I may venture out to try some clean up. Last year was such a train wreck, I had no time to maintain the garden .... it’ll be good to be outside and play in the dirt. My daughter sent me a pair of these crazy gloves with claw like tip on the fingers.
Those ghost apples look beautiful, like delicate blown glass
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Ghost apples in Michigan.... So cool 😉 and interesting process.
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Have negative degrees here tonight and very negative with chill factor, about -25. So not at all thinking about a garden today. Have some wildflower seeds to toss around when it warms a bit with snow coming.
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Cwillie, I’m jealous! All of my amaryllis are lying limp, they should be blooming in another month or so along with the daffodils. My indoor, forced paperwhites have just finshed their blooming, very lovely, not much scent this time though
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I've got 7 amaryllis blooming with a total of 27 blooms; one pink, one red & white and the rest all red. I also have one lonely but glorious daffodil!
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