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Slap! Suzy.

Guess what mame?

My tulips are coming up already!

I've got maybe 10 or 12 green shoots coming up.

I used to go to the nearby McDonalds and pick up 5 gallon pikle tubs FOR FREE!. Lids an all. Id use them to start gourds . When they came up and got rolling. Id haul the buckets out to the field and let them just take over and climb my fences. The plants send out roots on their stems and the buckets got them going early so that the gourds would have thicker skins when they dried. You folks that live in Texas and Arizona can grow gourds with very thick skins for carving and woodburning. ARound here we need to get em growing in ground by early MAy so they have that 120 days for thick rinds.
Patio tomatoes grow great in those tubs also.

There is a mcdonalds not even 2 blocks from here.

Bucket need drain holes? or no..

You are so lucky. It was -18C this morning, that's just below zero to you Americans. Nothing growing here but icicles.

What type of tulips? I love spring flowers. Got any crocuses?

yeh, you want holes in for drainage. A bunch. I always use an old punch that I hold over a stove burner till its red hot, then I just push the punch into the plastic You can use a power drill also, but I dont like to mess up my good bits. You can find old punches at yard sales. for a quarter a box.

McD's has begun selling the buckets in the last few years but they are still about 2 for a dollar around here.

we're finally near the freezing mark here in ontario, got a lot of crocuses in the front lawn, look nice coming up in the early spring, when tai chi lived in kingston there was this house that had a lawn full of crocuses, unbelievably beautiful

There's a house down by the Murney Tower in Kingston that has a lawn full of blue scylla in the spring. I think that's my favourite.

if i remember correctly this house was near the pen

Nearish to the big white house that looked kind of like something from the Old South? big white pillars?

I think I know which one you mean - I think those are also scylla. Mebbe we can get a pic in a month or so.

the house sounds right, we were always driving when we went by, so i may have have not id'd the flowers properly

do the scylla come in colours like crocus?

80 degrees yesterday and calm.

about 73 today.


unnaturally warm here. Almost scary honestly.

We should have a bunch of rain by now..... nothing.

We should have had a few freeze days too... nothing

just sunny, warm and breezy

Well, if the crocuses are out, the primroses should be, too. I miss them! And then the daffs, then the tulips... growing season here is so short! And late. I almost bought some tulips today but they were the price of the national debt and I aint' that rich. I envy you guys.

Edit: Oh, and how could I forget about the hyacinths?

Daffodils to follow, I figure.

Nothing here yet but much of the snow is gone. Chance of snow on the 24th but that's far enough away that accuracy of the forecast is in question.

I miss Spring.

no crocus yet.

weird.

oh, and I had put in ice plants in my planter, to drape over the walls.

they were pretty last summer, but I didn't think they'd get larger.

wrong, over the winter, they got bigger leaves and 2 of them are hanging more than a foot over the wall. No flowers yet of course.

shewolf, you're welcome to cuttings.

They're going to be like this, but prettier. The leaves are much more vibrant green now, and plump. I've got these pink ones and yellow. I'm going to spread some cutting around this coming weekend.

Ohh yeah.

i will take you up on that one....maybe this weekend .

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ahh...more like this....

oh yeah, I'd love to see you.

however, if by some chance we don't hook up, just drive by any time and help yourself.

If you see any little periwinkles come up, dig any you want up and take them.
Bean would like them. You can't kill them, and by the end of summer they will be huge.

Yeah, and periwinkles spread like crazy - they make a great groundcover.