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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsI've been bringing in some pots to start planting new herbs, and look what I found
A brand new little tomato plant has germinated! Kind of an early start, since it's just mid-February, but I'm going to do my best to keep it growing.
riversedge
(70,445 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)...since the Southern Hemisphere is going from summer into autumn.
riversedge
(70,445 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)What Mother Earth is saying might depend on where she is being asked.
Siwsan
(26,327 posts)I'm already planning out my veg garden, and getting seeds ready to start, next month.
magicarpet
(14,219 posts)Siwsan
(26,327 posts)Oh,.. let me go get my bong...
panader0
(25,816 posts)Which reminds me---spring is nigh.
ghostsinthemachine
(3,569 posts)Hippies in the hood!!!
LakeArenal
(28,883 posts)2naSalit
(86,943 posts)turn out to have some of the best tomatoes. Hope that one is a really good producer of very tasty toms!
Siwsan
(26,327 posts)and I compulsively transplant them - and they do produce some beauties!
mopinko
(70,366 posts)brought several hot peppers in buckets in the house for the winter, and now one of them has 3 tomato seedlings. about 3" tall.
cant resist keeping it.
spring is in full swing here on my little urban farm.
tons of peppers up, transplanting away, and 3 doz plus fantastic purple sweet potatoes growing.
Siwsan
(26,327 posts)I'm going to start some plants from seeds, next month. I would love to be able to get the plants in the ground by mid-May.
mopinko
(70,366 posts)i have to start early. have to shuffle things through seedmats, etc.
peppers can never be too big, and they can be sketchy, so i get them going in early as i can. mid january usually.
sweet potatoes that i kept from last year go when they go. i just potted up 3 doz+ of the tastiest, prettiest purple tuber ever. the earlier the better as the season is barely long enough for them here.
perennial herbs up now.
will do some cold tolerant stuff next, so i can get that in the hoop house.
then maters. maters, maters everywhere.
gonna get a new pop-up greenhouse for the roof soon. things will be safe there mid april i think.
i desperately need a real greenhouse.
drumph fatigue has really been getting to me. i am so glad to be growing.
Srkdqltr
(6,381 posts)What do they taste like? I've never had any.
mopinko
(70,366 posts)made a pie for thxgvg, and omg. what a pie. so striking. so good.
the purples were the only ones that came up, but i am fine w that. they were the ones i really wanted.
it's one thing i have had sourcing. ornamentals are pretty easy, but offbeat eaters come and go. this is the first time i have managed to keep them over winter and grow me own.
so very excited.
Fla Dem
(23,882 posts)Mendocino
(7,530 posts)It provides for omega 3 fatty acids.
pansypoo53219
(21,009 posts)stacked high to get right under the light. he kept up his WW2 victory garden.
flying_wahini
(6,701 posts)NeoGreen
(4,031 posts)cab67
(3,012 posts)handmade34
(22,759 posts)I have started my tomatoes but they are not up yet
I am starting peppers tomorrow, and then pumpkins and then.........