Re: Weekend events

best be careful with coyotes! The ones around here
don't care if your animal is on a leash or not- they
tend to attack anyways. 

be careful!

Glad you downsized that veggie garden LOL!... face it,
we all say we are going to do that, but .....

Yesterday I hit ebay since I don't have a family to
celebrate the holiday with. Got some great deals since
no one was there to bid against me ....

Donna

--- Johnson Cyndi D Civ 95 CG/SCSRT
<cyndi.johnson@edwards.af.mil> wrote:

> Ah, spring iz sprung, as they say. We had clouds and
> the ever-present wind
> this weekend, but it could have been worse, as I'm
> reading about you folks
> on the list having floods and tornados and drought. 
> My friend and I went hiking Saturday morning and
> surprised a couple of
> coyotes. Two of our dogs were off-leash and one of
> them was chasing my
> Trixie - we yelled at the top of our lungs and then
> it took off. Kind of
> scary actually, although Trix is a rottweiler she's
> young, and fairly small
> for her breed. Then my friend's idiot dog took off
> after the coyote, he came
> back safe and sound though. My friend got some good
> pictures of them
> watching us after that, I'll try and remember to put
> them up on Yahoo.
> My order from High Country Gardens showed up
> Saturday morning too so I spent
> a while putting those in the ground. Lots of nice
> penstemons and a couple
> more salvia. I ordered zauschneria again but this
> time I decided to try z.
> arizonica, not z.californica, we'll see if it makes
> a difference next
> winter. I haven't pulled up the z.californica yet
> since the literature makes
> me think it might still be alive under the dead
> foliage...I did see the
> faintest thread of green in one spot, but no other
> signs of life. I'm
> expecting it's dead but you never know. The
> hummingbirds were pretty unhappy
> with me, they were trying to get to the salvia
> greggii. Not much else
> blooming yet; the daffodils are almost completely
> gone, my few species
> tulips are blooming and a couple iris. Oh and the
> lilacs, and of course some
> wildflowers. Everything else is in bud. 
> I also planted the tomatoes. I did not take my own
> advice. Last summer I
> decided I would only plant 5 tomatoes.
> However...when I sowed seeds I
> decided on 15 plants, down from my usual 20. (I
> swear, I am cutting down on
> almost everything else. Really.) And in rummaging
> around the cupboards I
> realized that while I canned lots of cut tomatoes
> last year I am out of
> sauce. So, I rationalize to myself, I need to make
> sauce so this is good.
> I'm growing fresh-eating types Black Plum,
> Persimmon, Porter's Pride, Tiger
> Stripe, and Ugly; and paste tomatoes Classica,
> Saucy, Super Roma, and San
> Marzano. Last year the blossom-end rot was so bad I
> lost probably 75% of the
> fruit, I'll be reviewing all the sources again this
> year to see if I can't
> figure out why the calcium thing is so out of whack
> in my garden. I never
> did do the soil test but there's probably still
> time. 
> And I reseeded some peppers using the saltpetre
> trick IslandJim mentioned.
> It's very late to be starting pepper seed but what
> the heck, I'd like to
> know if it works, and since only about 3/4 of mine
> sprouted I won't have too
> too many. Unlike most veggies they're pretty
> forgiving about being left on
> the plant for a long time, and if I get overwhelmed
> they can wait. 
> I really am running late on much of the veggie
> garden, either the weather
> has been bad or I have commitments elsewhere on a
> weekend day. This Sunday
> we were at my sister's so no gardening got done
> then. And my patio plants
> really need to come out of the greenhouse, but first
> I need to clean up the
> patio and fix the watering. Well...at least with
> daylight savings I can do
> some things after work. 
> 
> Cyndi 
> 
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