[franca]

Anyone have tips for growing lettuce? I love fresh lettuce. [/QUOTE]

http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/veggies/lettuce1.html

[franca]

Originally Posted by Steppinstone

See what happens when you rub your nice weather in too much . Looks like Jaki is wondering where those footprints came from

Still Spring like here, everything is soggy and melting but worth it to have nicer weather right aorund the corner!

Take care!

Chari

See what happens when you rub your nice weather in too much....... I know Chari, I'll remember next time,

Jaki just loved it......

Won't be long now Chari before your out messing around in your garden

All the snow have gone already, thank goodness, could have done without that final winter blast,.....

cu later, take care,

Frank.

[Tuppence2]

Hello

Jaki is just so cute in those photos, Frank. So perplexed, wondering what the footprints are!

I understand the snow didn't last long - and after you did all that path clearing, too.

Have you posted a pic of the new pup here yet? I love the one of them both together on the sofa. He's a very luck pup to have found his way to Sally and Dave over there in Hawaii. Is his name decided now?

It's a dry Saturday morning, after a few days of rain (much appreciated - I never complain about rain). In fact, there was a fall of hail when I was out with the dogs yesterday. They were trying to shake off the hailstones, only to have more land on them!

The photo of the rose with the snow on is pretty - I presume it's a rose!

I was given bluebell bulbs a few days ago and have put them in the front garden. They'd been lifted from a friend's garden and put in the bin. He then thought people might like them. They have long green shoots already.

Good luck with the soil clearing and prepartion, teengeekgrrl

Bye,
Penny.

[teengeekgrrl]

Originally Posted by franca

http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/veggies/lettuce1.html

Thanks!

[teengeekgrrl]

Originally Posted by Tuppence2

Hello

Jaki is just so cute in those photos, Frank. So perplexed, wondering what the footprints are!

I understand the snow didn't last long - and after you did all that path clearing, too.

Have you posted a pic of the new pup here yet? I love the one of them both together on the sofa. He's a very luck pup to have found his way to Sally and Dave over there in Hawaii. Is his name decided now?

It's a dry Saturday morning, after a few days of rain (much appreciated - I never complain about rain). In fact, there was a fall of hail when I was out with the dogs yesterday. They were trying to shake off the hailstones, only to have more land on them!

The photo of the rose with the snow on is pretty - I presume it's a rose!

I was given bluebell bulbs a few days ago and have put them in the front garden. They'd been lifted from a friend's garden and put in the bin. He then thought people might like them. They have long green shoots already.

Good luck with the soil clearing and prepartion, teengeekgrrl

Bye,
Penny.

[Bush Lady]

I a jealous when I here that everone is thinking of spring already, and when I look outside, it may be unusually warm today. On Tuesday the temperature here will be a high of 0 C.

Our snow will not be gone until April. I hate winter......

[Tuppence2]

Hello

We've plants bursting into bud and flower everywhere, in the middle of hail-storms and very cold winds!

Planted bluebell bulbs that someone gave me. They have long green shoots. Hope they'll settle.

The clematis have buds, and trees are growing leaves.

Haven't cut the grass yet, though - still to "claggy" for that.

Hope your gardens are all growing well.

Bye,
Penny.

[telecom69]

Happy Birthday Penny,hope you have a wonderful day and many happy returns

Dont worry about the bluebells they will settle down ok and boy do they spread,such a wonderful sight when they are out,just a pity they dont last longer....I have managed to mow the lawn 3 times this year,the first at the end of February,but I had to pick the days the frogs have been very late in arriving in my small wildlife pond this year,but arrive they did 2 days ago,and I have counted 37 so far,its great to hear them croaking in the few sunny periods we are getting at the moment....with the lighter nights the garden will soon start bursting into life now ...cant wait see you later ......Bob

PS I told the world its your birthday in the announcements forum,hope you dont mind

[trekguy]

TGG, how's the garden plot coming along??

There's a forest next to it?? You will need full sun... hopefully the forest is to the north of the garden.

[franca]

Originally Posted by telecom69

Happy Birthday Penny,hope you have a wonderful day and many happy returns



PS I told the world its your birthday in the announcements forum,hope you dont mind

Yes Penny happy birthday......hope you liked your cards.......

cu later, take care,

Frank. ps it was our 43rd WA to-day

[Steppinstone]

Spring is bursting in my neck of the woods!! Nothing like Frank and Penny's locations that's for sure!

Wee one and I have been putzing around the yard and also starting some seeds indoors.. I have started my usual cherry tomatoes and planted a few of my Begonia bulbs into pots!

Tonight I will start a flat of a yellow pear tomatoes and build a birdhouse or two!!

Have fun everyone!!

Happy Birthday again Penny!

[eggplant43]

Spring is in the area, but I'm not sure it has arrived yet. I saw a clematis vine just starting to poke out of the ground yesterday, and there are little stems forming at the base of last years roses, and the bulbs are pretty much up now, so it can't be far off.

I also heard birds singing, for the first time this morning, so i guess things are beginning to awaken. I've also started to do a bit of weeding, so I guess spring actually is here

[littlemar]

My day lillies and tulips are poking through the ground in my flowerbed near the patio door. My roses are still covered so I haven't even looked at them. More and more birds are hitting my feeders so it looks like spring.

[Tuppence2]

Hello Bob. Thanks for the birthday wishes.

You are good to have cut your grass so many times already. Still not got mine done for the first time! Just too damp, I missed doing it on the one dry day when everyone else in the road did theirs.

Yes, won't it be good to have bluebells spreading around. I've got cowslips, also, that I hope are going to spread themselves.

I have frogs in my two little ponds but not as many as you - no sign of them yet, either.

No celandines the other day, then I walked the dogs today and they were everywhere. I really love them - like little spots of sunshine. Cherry trees in blossom, too. Though they could be winter flowering cherries. Forsythia splashing it's golden blossom around, too.

No news of my Malus bonsai, yet. I'll contact the supplier again at thre beginning of the week of I don't hear anything.

Good gardening, everyone.

Penny.

[Tuppence2]

Hello Frank.

Loved the cards, thank you. The one from "The Gang" is precious!

No doubt, there's the sound of motor mowers in the air over there. Could do with one of those robotic ones.

Saw bullfinches in the garden, and a song thrush and chaffinch in bushes outside the church hall. The number of thrushes has declined immensely, and bullfinches are not common now, either. Heard the beautiful song of a blackbird earlier.

Woofs & tickles for Jaki.