buzz wrote: 

 Beanie wrote: 
We had some chocolate mesclun mesca never mind.

 JrzyTmata wrote: 
could we get some new padding for the harness. its starting to chafe.

 Coaxial wrote: 
it's been fine! haven't had a spasm in about 3 weeks.
most of the gardening is done while sitting. Buzz yells at me if he sees me standing without the cane.

 JrzyTmata wrote: 

Ha!  I was just stopping in to say that we got six row of mesclun, two rows of butterhead lettuce, 100 leeks, 15 brussels sprouts and three beds of asparagus put in today, between three yards.  These are all things we haven't grown before, and because each yard has different soil (we have bottom land, where Lori has higher, drier hill land and Theresa is half-way between), we're going to see who does best with these. 

I started some seeds inside, about two weeks late, but so be it.  48 bell peppers, 24 roma tomatoes, 12 cherry tomatoes, some Amish pinks I saved from last year.  12 green bush beans, 12 yellow string (black wax) bush beans, 12 english cukes, 18 pickling cukes.  I haven't had great luck with beans, but Theresa has about twice as many planted as I do — she's the bean queen.  If we both have good luck we'll freeze a bunch for winter.

Lori is growing all the melons — too wet at my place and they rot.  Theresa is going to expand her squash patch this year and I'm trying some mini pumpkins.

I'll put the hotter peppers in flats later.  It's really too wet at my place for the hotter peppers, but Lori and Theresa both get pepper rot for some reason. 

I usually do the herbs, because I'm the only one who appreciates them.

We draw straws to see who has to grow zucchini.  I haven't lost yet. 

Honestly, we started gardening together by Margarita.    We have a habit of wandering into each other's yards with a beer or a Margarita on Saturday afternoons, when one or another of us was tired of working, and saw that we each were having liuck with different things.    Didn't make sense to grow what we weren't good at. 

 AliGator wrote: 
...yeah I know eh?...now I need a moment...

 JrzyTmata wrote: 


It does all our hearts good to see you back in your garden.

 JrzyTmata wrote: 
You mean you're not?

 JrzyTmata wrote: 
Such a nice Sunday. How's the pain level in the femur?

 smokinsean wrote: 
thanks sean My doctor puts his hands on his ears and cringes when I tell him about my gardening. I don't know what he imagines I do out there. Maybe he thinks I'm driving a mule team and a plow or something.

 JrzyTmata wrote: 
...I would just like to say that it pleases me to no end to read about you out in the garden...if you would like to consider this a pre-salsa season suck up then go ahead...ha!...all joking aside...good to hear Jrz!...

I cleaned out 2 beds today. 3 more to go. The birds uprooted some of the onions, so I pushed them back in the ground.
Buzz mowed the lawn and got the compost piles started.
Talked with one of the neighbors for a bit. His english has really improved. he didn't speak any english when he moved here a few years ago. He asked me about my garlic and I promised to save him a few bulbs to plant next season.

The spring bulbs are in full bloom. Mid season daffs, early tullps, hyacinth and grape hyacinth. very colorful. the grape hyacinth have spread out into the lawn.

My RA is flared up a bit in my wrists. Cleaning the beds didn't help that much.
maybe this should have been a journal.

How is everyone's gardens coming along?

Beanie, maybe you could talk about your neighborhood co-op gardens? I would love to know how that all got started and how it works. I'd like to do something like that with our gardening neighbors.

 JrzyTmata wrote: 
Yea Onions!

Boo hamstrings!

I got the onions planted yesterday. made my hammies hurt!

 cc_rider wrote: 

We have *got* to get a new oven with a working broiler...

The garlic is already sprouting! The lemongrass has a bit of root coming out, maybe it'll make it.

Rosemary grows like crazy here. Sunday I made a london broil with garlic and fresh rosemary. Delish.

 JrzyTmata wrote: 

They address that in the article.

 maryte wrote: 
The heirlooms still taste better.

 maryte wrote: 
It doesn't surprise me
All varieties of cultivated plants are the product of inbreeding, totally random but seemingly preferred than the evil geneticially modified plants where specific genes are crossed to make a better plant.

This rather surprised me:

How to Grow a Better Tomato: The Case against Heirloom Tomatoes