Now is the time to start thinking about gardening for this year.

[Russell Kanning]

see even patk gets a rosy outlook on life when spring comes

[cathleeninnh]

I am shoveling and I blame PatK

[Russell Kanning]

he is supposed to bellbop the storms away

[Pat K]

I am shoveling and I blame PatK

Um I think I am getting to much credit.

[PassionatePantherrr]

Any interest in a plant swap sometime next month up here in Grafton? I have planted quite a few winter sown seeds, and things are starting to sprout :-) (Tat sai, rhubarb, amish bottle onion, a couple of others thus far). Let me know :-)

[Russell Kanning]

one of the crazy things here in texas is .... they are all almost done harvesting their wheat

[KBCraig]

We've got our first little green tomatoes.

[Kat Kanning]

I ate my first garden tomato a couple days ago    Been picking peas, lots of beans and greens, zucchini.

[PassionatePantherrr]

I have tomato seedlings... last frost date is June 6th, hopefully will get "early" tomatoes by the end of July, late ones before the end of August... I've got to container start my squash and scarlet runner this week so I'll have some ripe enough to harvest by 1st frost in Sept. Fun fun!

[Russell Kanning]

avoiding the frost is always a joy isn't it?
in wyoming i don't think there was a frost free month

[jerry]

Things are not going too well in the backyard here in Southern Tropical Grafton. 
The high temps in March combined with late freezes pretty much devastated the apples and pears.

There is ONE peach on one tree. picture attached

The early blueberry bush is ripening, but sparse.  The late bush is loaded (see picture)

The grapes are malformed and only a few per bunch.

The winner is the hops plants.  One vine is already ten feet tall.

[Tom Sawyer]

Gardening is tough... nature giveth and taketh away. Upside the plants are still alive and without the fruit will put the energy into growth.

I've been wanting to grow hops. 

[Russell Kanning]

sad but then very cool
last summer was murder on plants in texas ... hottest summer ever killed all the corn and most of the cotton. some of my tree plantings and transplants survived so they are going great this year with all the rain
kat has tomatoes growing wild everywhere she has been

[KBCraig]

The winner is the hops plants.  One vine is already ten feet tall.

Put the hops to good use, and you'll forget about the rest. 

[jerry]

The winner is the hops plants.  One vine is already ten feet tall.

Put the hops to good use, and you'll forget about the rest. 

Just last night I threw some of last year's harvest in to a batch of George Washington's Small Beer.