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Re: Why so quiet???

Hi, Judy:

My garden scene (zone 9b, S. Calif.):  The weather has been very good,
lots of rain and lots of sunny days in between!  I've already had to
weed whack the hillside trying to avoid the fantastic wildflowers.  My
Calif. poppies haven't opened yet, but I'm 4 weeks behind them "in town"
whose poppies have been flowering since that time - amazing - 4 weeks
behind and only 7 miles away!  I'm in a narrow canyon with a completely
different micro climate, amazing, huh!?  My lettuce, snapdragons and
pansies grow year 'round and are really nice now, with all the rains.
Sunflower seedlings about 5 inches tall. . . oh, my spring
bulbs are in bloom, at least the hyacinths, crocuses, daffodils and
grape hyacinths.  Still waiting for the tulips.  Inside, my under
fluorescent seedlings are waiting for me to harden them
off, Bolivian peppers, lilac peppers, neon eggplant, BBeauty eggplant,
and my specialty - tomatoes!  I started 6 kinds so far (I share them at
home and at work, just call me Mary Tomatoseed. . get it?  Johnny
Appleseed?).  Anyway, my snafu
with nonlabled seedling cups is being dealt with my staking and caging
them all, no one told me how to differentiate between determinates and
indeterminates at seedling stage (not too late, everyone!).  I'm trying
Big Zac, the new seed offered this year from Minnie Zac. in New Jersey -
do all you tomato enthusiasts below to The Tomato Club in Bogota, N.J.
Great
newsletter, great contributors, I highly recommend it!  Anyway, Ms. Zac.
crossed her own tomato and has won 1st prize in N.J.'s big, annual
Largest Tomato Contest and this year, the seed co.'s are offering her
seed for sale.  So, this year for me, it's Big Zac, Nebraska Wedding,
Italian Gold, Bush Goliath, Brandywine and Yelllow Liberty Bell.  I'm
pricking out (English term for transplanting, ha!) my hardened-off tom.
seedlings after this rain, with protection at night because of this
weird weather - 80's daytime, 40's at night (at my house, anyway!).

Well Judy, what is your gardening schedule looking like?

Good luck!

Mary

polenta-brain wrote:

> Is this list alive??  I would expect it to be very busy now that
> spring has almost sprung!  but I am getting approx. 0 posts per day!
>
> Judy (zone 7, close-in SS, MD)
> to e-mail me:  jcosler@mindspring.com
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