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In My Garden Today Posted by Alvin in Motown, z6 on March 22, 2025, 11:52 pm Recently, I showed some pics of some collard and tomato seedlings I started in a community pot. The collards have been transplanted into six packs. Today, I transplanted the tomatoes from two community pots, into a couple 9 packs. Here they are... https://photos.app.goo.gl/fbvS2NwRs2pUo3a37 Last week, the first snow crocus opened. Now, this week, the GIANT CROCUS, Crocus vernus, are chiming in. If you've seen snow crocus before, you can see a difference between snow crocus, and giant crocus... https://photos.app.goo.gl/bYTr98Ro6nqBb9Nq7 I lifted the styrofoam cone, to see how my HONEYBUSH, Melianthus major, fared after a long winter. This plant is native to South Africa. The plant seeems to have survived a Michigan winter, though. The leaves are green, and not dried and crispy... https://photos.app.goo.gl/QsZDomWjfoR1ZQ2h8 This is 'Guppy'. It is a dwarf-growing form of Distilium racemosum. Anybody else growing this plant? It is rated z7 hardy... https://photos.app.goo.gl/fqv4odkRVk1jbfND9 I lifted the cone from this plant, to see how it fared through the winter. It is a Narrow Leaf Mock Privet, Phillyrea angustifolia, plant. This is another z7 hardy plant. Anybody else growing any of the Phillyrea family? https://photos.app.goo.gl/XPDi2J61ahJjjj1N6

Re: In My Garden Today Posted by Fred SC on March 23, 2025, 7:15 am, in reply to "In My Garden Today" Alvin, those tomatoes are looking very healthy and sturdy looking plant them out , they’ll be ready to go. My daughter planted a lot of tomato and lettuce varieties. She sold them a little late, so they’re still pretty small Shee Ed is putting in raised beds. She finished him yesterday. She will transplant vegetable plants in there. Here’s a picture of them.. Beautiful Crocus! Crocus here are long gone. It’s been a beautiful spring, though everything that can bloom has blue dog wood began to open up and red badge is still out pretty.. Loropetelems sp. have been. glorious this year.. Guppy is nice broad leaf Evergreen. Your mock probity is nice. https://i.ibb.co/XZHkVzyx/IMG-5830.jpg

Re: In My Garden Today Posted by AJ Mid TN on March 23, 2025, 11:41 am, in reply to "In My Garden Today" I like the giant crocus

Re: In My Garden Today Posted by Alvin, z6 on March 23, 2025, 5:19 pm, in reply to "Re: In My Garden Today" Thanks, AJ. That one is a nice blue color. I have other colors, too.

Re: In My Garden Today Posted by Alvin, z6 on March 23, 2025, 5:29 pm, in reply to "Re: In My Garden Today" Thanks, Fred. The tomatoes are growing faster than expected. I don't expect to begin hardening them off, for another month. The collards will begin the hardening process, in a couple weeks, as they can go into the ground sooner. Those are some nice raised beds, your daughter has. Does she buy starts, or does she start hers from seeds, too? Is it time for tomato planting, there? Cool crops can be planted here, in 2-3 weeks, here. Phillyrea, Melianthus, and Guppy are not sold here, because they are rated for my zone, but I get as, where you are.

Re: In My Garden Today Posted by Fred SC on March 25, 2025, 8:22 am, in reply to "Re: In My Garden Today" Alvin, she starts from seeds. She has a miniature greenhouse that I gave her and grows them under grow light on her front porch. She brought Ms a couple dozen butter crunch lettuce she grew. I have black seed Simpson growing outside but is small yet. I sowed it about 2 or three weeks late. I hope it don’t get so hot, it bolts before I make much use of it. Season is changing fast. It will be 79 today . Dry here, we are in a bad drought . We may get an inch or less on Friday but not holding my breath . I f d if down and it is fry a foot or so down. Already people are creating billowing dust while mowing. I wish they would outlaw grass. My daughter had no grass in her yard it is totally flowers and bulbs with a few veggies and herbs mixed in. I am waiting for HOA to fine her and make her remove. They can not do anything because the tenants in here don’t mention what you can plant, lol. She lives below road so they have to go to edge and look down to really notice it. She found two litt ring neck snakes yesterday. Her property has a lot of wildlife like frogs birds yes and so far only non poisonous snakes. He back yard has a nice circulating pool. It attracts possums raccoons and even ZBlue Heron. I hope the copperheads stay away, but we have them a lot in the neighborhood. She tries to be careful.

Re: In My Garden Today Posted by Alvin, z6 on March 25, 2025, 10:06 pm, in reply to "Re: In My Garden Today" Yeah, Fred, folks living in z8 can get away with planting cool season crops, like lettuce, spinach, and green peas, in February, because they can endure lower temps, and light frosts, with no harm done. I don't like raccoons and possums, in my yard, because they kill chickens. Alot of people are ditching grass, in favor of other more xeric "grass-like" plants, like creeping thyme, that stays low, without mowing. Lilyturf, or Liriope spreads like grass, too, and is even greener, in winter, than grass.

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