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

[Lloyd Danforth]

Smoothies(question mark)

[Kat Kanning]

Gross

What's wrong with your question mark?

[Lloyd Danforth]

Button and the little rubber cone popped off

[jerry]

I have been trying to get a damn Steak tree to grow for
years now with little success.

Tom and I planted 5 BEER plants today!

[Lloyd Danforth]

How exactly does that work(qm)
Do you dig up long necks when they are ripe or just pick them like corn(qm)

[porcupine kate]

Tom and I planted 5 BEER plants today!
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Hopps?   They are very cool looking vines. 

[porcupine kate]

I have found the biggest threat to my garden plans is Chantal.
My cat thinks my seedlings are her personal salad bar.   
She almost wiped out all of the broccoli.  She tried taking out the kale too.

[Lloyd Danforth]

Bines

[Kat Kanning]

Cats ate the catnip seedlings.     

I'm just about to start harvesting spinach and the lamb's quarters that came up with it.  The grow boxes are working great!

http://www.seattleoil.com/Flyers/Earthbox.pdf

[porcupine kate]

I tried cat nip last year and I had every cat on the block in my backyard howling for two days till they devoured it all.  I didn't even try to plant it this year.

I was very happy to see my lettuce seedlings didn't die with the light snow last Friday.  The romaine lettuce and the radishes have sprouted.  I should see the spinach, peas and beets soon.

I just received my onion sets and garlic.  I know garlic should be planted in the fall but I am trying it anyway.  I found a variety that should do well being planted in the spring.  I planted it this afternoon along with the first batch of carrots.   

Tomorrow I will plant the raised bed that I put the row covers on.  I made the bed into a little hoop house out of pex tubing and clear plastic sheeting.  I have been warming up the soil and I am going to attempt to plant the bed a month early and see what happens.  I will have to open it up during the day since the temperatures have been over 90 degrees during the day.  I bought a soil tester to help monitor the soil moisture.   I love the raised beds.  This year is so much less work than last year.

I want to plant the broccoli and kale.  I need to wait till they get a few more leaves since the cat ate them.   I just hope we don't get solid rain till July this year.  Last year was awful.  I didn't even get a single zucchini from the garden.
Kate

[porcupine kate]

Kat how is the green house doing?

[Kat Kanning]

It's just awesome what Russell did.  The rock and log-end walls really do hold the heat in.  Even though it's freezing outside at night, the greenhouse hasn't fallen below 40 degrees in ... I don't know... maybe a month and a half?  All my plants are doing great in there.

[Lloyd Danforth]

I have been trying to get a damn Steak tree to grow for
years now with little success.

Tom and I planted 5 BEER plants today!

All 3 of mine have sprouted!

[Tom Sawyer]

I have been trying to get a damn Steak tree to grow for
years now with little success.

Tom and I planted 5 BEER plants today!

All 3 of mine have sprouted!

We'd like to get some hop vines any extras to share?

[jerry]

We'd like to get some hop vines any extras to share?

Mine are all underground, but they are reasonably priced at :
http://www.freshops.com/cgi-bin/shopper.cgi?search=action&category=RHIZ&keywords=all&template=PDGCommTemplates/rhizomes.html