gardening season opener

We've seen mid-80's here already , today's high is predicted to be in the mid 70's . If Mother Nature sends hot weather early this year I'm going to be really pissed . I planted salad stuff way earlier than ever before , trying to beat the heat and harvest something before it bolts .

I am still snowed in!

T wrote: ...

cooler weather returned here after last night and today's rains and thunderstorms.

not quite snowing, but quite a change from 70F to mid- 30sF. we'll be back below freezing a few nights this week if the forecast is accurate.

songbird

Looks like we might be in for an early pring . Except for a couple of overnight lows in the 30's the next 10 days look like 50's for lows and

Earwigs destroy any lettuce I try to grow. You have that problem?

No , earwigs have never been a problem here . But there are a lot of other equally or more destructive pests . Squash borers and Japanese beetles are at the top of that list .

Hi Snag, haven't seen you in a while!

Virginia Beach is hitting an early Spring. Not by much but about 2 weeks.

I think we used to converse over on the cooking group ... I got tired of the Kuthe-centric conversations over there and dropped out .

I remember conversing on the cooking group years ago. There were some really mean folks over there. I got off pretty quick.

There were - and probably still are - some really cool folks there too . It got to the point from my POV that the whole group revolved around the antics of one individual who IMO is a total jerk not worth the bandwidth . So I left ...

Well, he's gone now with google groups. I also bozo binned Bruce who's turned total troll again. Pretty nice there now for the most part.

You just need to bozo bin a few of them now.

Anyways, here the green house is 85% percent finished. I think it's just the roof now then add the cover. It's a small unit tucked against the back of the former garage/laundry room. Don's having fun piecing it together and working on it about an hour a day. This is day 2 (missed a day as it was drizzling).

Plenty of time as seedlings not even up yet. Starter plants get here to the stores in our area, in 3-4 weeks.

For now, I've got some seedlings planted and waiting for them to come up. I'll start more later.

I'll poke my nose under the canvas ... I can twit-filter one or six assholes , but the Kuthe s*it was so pervasive .

Greenhouse! I might be a little bit envious. Maybe. I ain't sayin'.

Smile, just a small one.

Small enough it's often used on small upstairs patios though this is a house with a fenced in backyard.

Today is day 3 and all we need now is to put the top cover on and put the tie dowm stakes in (if not there already). Basically it's taken 3 hours and only part Don needed help with will be the top cover (can be done by one but a lot easier with 2). Call it 5 minutes. 5 more if stakes still needed.

Next seeds to start are marigolds. Rats hate them and we've had some success at making our yard avoided by them. After that, peppermint and other mints that rats dislike. Those go in containers on raised bases. I have 32 9' deep and 12' wide containers, 3ft long mostly but some are

Rats??? And I think I have a problem with earwigs!

And you don't have armadillos either . They like to dig for grubs and worms . Worms and grubs love my garden . I like the worms , but ...grubs suck . I'll be getting some beneficial nematodes soon to help control the grubs . The years I've used them the Japanese beetle populations have been a lot lower .

I remember Armadillos from Texas mostly.