Comments on: Starting, with seeds

By: inadvertentgardener

inadvertentgardener — Wed, 07 May 2008 00:34:29 +0000

Kären, I not only can’t wait to see pictures, I cannot wait to see it in person! I’m so excited about getting a tour of the garden from the ultimate gardener himself. And you can tell him I called him that!

By: Karen Ledebur

Karen Ledebur — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 22:16:03 +0000

Oh Gardening Queen….I will be sending pictures soon but in the meantime while you are planting your much more advanced garden please know that the first Penny Friends garden has been planted. It’s a lovely raised bed garden with four varieties of tomatoes, three varieties of peppers, basil, oregano, zucchini, and yellow squash. The mojito mint is planted in a pot. It’s so exciting!

By: inadvertentgardener

inadvertentgardener — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 17:24:27 +0000

Hi PrairieRobin, I have an email coming your way. In the meantime, though, if any other commenters have ideas and/or resources that might help PrairieRobin out, I encourage you to post them up or send them to me. Thanks!

By: PrairieRobin

PrairieRobin — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 12:37:05 +0000

Genie – Sorry for the off-topic message, but I managed to lose your email address. Thought maybe you could help – I’m thinking about starting a food buying co-op in my neck of the woods and wondered if you knew of any in the Iowa City area that I could contact for advice & info. Thanks!

By: inadvertentgardener

inadvertentgardener — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 01:40:03 +0000

Gillie, I’m glad I’m not the only one who does sheerly no planning…

Shaila, I’m very intrigued by the whole square-foot concept, and if/when I move to a bigger city, I might have to put it to use. We’ll see how it goes. I haven’t tried it yet, myself, but I’ve heard really good things about it. As for the hanging tomatoes, the experiment was a failure, but I think I didn’t quite do it by the book…

Heather, I love Cafepress — I need to make some more products, and am planning to do a calendar myself this year, too. I thought yours last year looked terrific!

Michelle, have you planted yet?

Lydia, how is your weather doing? Still not springy enough this weekend? I hope you get that planting urge sooner rather than later.

Sally, I only pulled up part of the sage — I left the part that was coming back! But I planted more…and so there’s going to be plenty coming! I can never have too much sage…

Jeanne, that’s so cool about your map! And I can’t believe you’re picking thyme already — amazing.

N&J, a ha…taking a guide to the nursery with you is a great idea! I had no idea the first time I went to buy all that stuff what I was doing…

PrairieRobin, I do start my herbs from seed, but do it directly in the ground. I don’t have all the seed starting equipment I need to start them out indoors. And yes, I’m ready for that string of dry 70-degree days, too!

By: PrairieRobin

PrairieRobin — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:15:17 +0000

I’m going to do the square foot garden thing this year too. I’m curious to see if it’s as good as I hear.

Genie – do you start your herbs from seed? My herb gardens in the past have been small, but I’m more ambitious this year. For budget reasons, I’m going for seeds for all of my annuals but not sure about the herbs.

I got out over the past few days and cleaned up the perennial bed. Things are getting green and the peonies that I moved a few weeks ago are about a foot tall already. My hosta order arrived and I got 10 in my shady side garden.

I’m so ready for a long string of dry 70 degree days!

By: N. & J.

N. & J. — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:44:04 +0000

Being newbies we did not plan, we did not plot things on graph paper, we didn’t analyze our soil. No we took a look online and found vegetables with cool names that we are oh 80% sure can survive in Colorado in the summer. We did take the libraries copy of “Bountiful Container” with us to the nursery to make sure the pots and planters we purched would be deep enough so there was SOME thought involved in the process :)

By: Jeanne

Jeanne — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:06:54 +0000

Those herbs will come back. My sage looked terrible last week, but one week of good sun and warmer temps, the sage looks terrific. My chive blossoms have come up – can’t ait for them to open! And I’ve been picking thyme for about 10 days.

I was the envy of the garden center last year because I brought a map of my garden! No graph paper, just a rough handrawn map with the dimensions written in and circles where I needed plants. (I just do flowers and herbs – no need for me to feed the crazy squirrels). Worked fine.

By: Sally

Sally — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:18:56 +0000

The only reason to buy seeds from a catalog would be to get the things you can’t pick up locally. And DON’T PULL UP THAT SAGE!!! It’ll come back. Pretty soon you’ll see green leaves on it. Same with the Rosemary, and Thyme and (probably where you are at) Parsley. Oh, and Oregano, Marjoram, Lemon Balm, and, oh, just practically every herb (except Basil) that you grew last year. Herbs (mostly) are perennials. We can even get several years out of Sage, Parsley and Rosemary up here in the cold north. If we have a mild winter (which we DIDN’T!!!) or they are on the south side (read: micro-climate).

But, that’s OK Genie – I’m sure you’ll find uses for about 50 more sage plants when the seeds germinate……

By: Lydia (The Perfect Pantry)

Lydia (The Perfect Pantry) — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:17:19 +0000

I have packets of seeds sitting on the kitchen table, waiting to be planted. It’s as though I don’t actually believe that it’s Spring, and that the ground is finally warm enough for planting.