Re: Feels like summer

My neighbors are trying some this year.  You constantly feed them with
water and fertilizer.  I guess they are handy for those with porches.  Last
year, one of the same neighbors tried pots.  I gave him a volunteer that he
put in the ground.  The ground one outproduced the potted.  I am very
curious to see how these upside-down ones do.


> [Original Message]
> From: james singer <inlandjim1@q.com>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Date: 4/21/2009 11:44:46 AM
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Feels like summer
>
> My thought exactly. I suppose it's possible... it's just not probable.
>
> On Apr 21, 2009, at 8:18 AM, Johnson, Cyndi D Civ USAF AFMC 95 CS/ 
> SCOSI wrote:
>
> > Are those the upside-down planters? My sister bought some. I am  
> > thinking
> > that millions of years of evolution programmed roots to grow down and
> > leaves to grow up, so turning it over would be a setback...but if  
> > people
> > have fun with it all the better.
> >
> > Cyndi
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
> > Behalf Of Betsy Kelson
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 4:25 AM
> > To: gardenchat@hort.net
> > Subject: Re: [CHAT] Feels like summer
> >
> > Well Cyndi,
> >        I have found that folks are just crazy for tomatoes and will do
> > anythng for them. This is the first year that we carried Topsy Turvy
> > Tomato
> > planters(AS SEEN ON TV) Folks can buy them on QVC, at Home Depot,  
> > and at
> > our
> > garden center. And at $15 a pop, we have had to do little to promote
> > them.
> > Funny!!!
> >        My sunday was not as pleasant as yours though. DH and I  
> > shoveled
> > away 31" of heavy snow on the driveway and in front of the garage. It
> > only
> > took us 4 hours in the sun. It should be in the 60's here during the
> > week.
> >
> > Hang on Spring isn't over yet in the Rockies
> >
> > betsy
> > evergreen co 31 degrees at 6am
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Johnson, Cyndi D Civ USAF AFMC 95 CS/SCOSI"
> > <cyndi.johnson@edwards.af.mil>
> > To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> > Sent: Monday, April 20, 2009 5:26 PM
> > Subject: [CHAT] Feels like summer
> >
> >
> >> It was a very short while ago I was complaining about being cold.
> >> Someone turned up the thermostat, because now we're getting temps in
> > the
> >> 90s. Ah spring, can't make up its mind what to do.
> >> Saturday we rode with a group we just joined, a longish ride through
> >> some hills to a local restaurant. Never been there before, very  
> >> horsey
> >> area obviously since the place has several hitching rails outside.
> > Nice
> >> weather. Fewer wildflowers than I expected to see, it is already
> > getting
> >> too dry for them. Ceanothus is in bloom though, I wish it would grow
> > in
> >> my garden.
> >> Sunday was even hotter. I pulled the row cover off the peas and the
> > bed
> >> of lettuce and spinach. Peas are looking pretty good. Lettuce and
> >> spinach, what's there looks good but the germination is spotty. I
> > always
> >> wonder why I get the kinds of germination I do. I'll have one row
> > where
> >> half of it doesn't germinate, other rows where every seed comes up,  
> >> or
> >> spots maybe 12 inches long where there's nothing. I wonder if it's
> >> insects, ants maybe.
> >> I dithered about planting beans right up until the point where I
> > opened
> >> the seed cabinet and discovered I have no bean seeds. Okay no beans.
> >> I'll fill out the beds with more tomato plants, I was only going to
> > put
> >> in five but ten will be better.  Husband is experimenting with his
> >> tomato plants too, he's got a number of largish buckets and put drain
> >> holes in them and buried them. I think his idea is to fill them with
> >> dirt and that moisture-retaining crystal stuff, plant the tomatoes in
> >> them, and they will take less water than conventional planting. I
> > think
> >> it won't work like he thinks but I'll watch with interest.
> >> I'll have roses in bloom within a week. Iris are starting, daffodils
> > are
> >> gone, lilacs are almost gone, weeds are rampant.  I need time to pull
> >> weeds!
> >>
> >> Cyndi
> >>
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