Gardening, Puttering and Adventure Thread, March 4

Hi, everybody. It's March! Got anything coming up in the garden yet?

Don in Kansas has something growing:

We have a few days of spring here, though winter will return within a week. Outdoors, iris and daffodils are getting started. Indoors, the first batch of seeds are up.

Weather

A backyard scene from sunny Southern California, provided by By-Tor. Elevation about 1100 or 1200 feet.

A scene from earlier this year, different location, still in Southern California.

From a friend of the blog in the Southeast:

You having any adventures with the weather?

Edible Gardening/Putting Things By

Hey KT, Thought our fellow gardeners who do edible gardening might like a look at my latest project. Vermicomposting in a couple of my raised beds. It doesn't look fancy but I am hopeful that it will make my beds very prolific. I used this tutorial of how to do it.

Went to the garden shop and bought a box of red wigglers, they are pricey but I hope they will make lots of worm castings and make many off-spring. I have been saving coffee grounds, egg shells and banana peels any way to make my own fertilizer, but apparently that is just what the worms like to eat so I am happy to let them turn it into fertilizer for me. Shredded cardboard at the bottom, then the worms went in, then coffee grounds, mushed up egg shells, and chopped up banana peel, then more shredded cardboard on top. You are supposed to feed them once week so I will let you know how they do...

For the bird lovers out there, I have attached a picture of our hummingbird feeder last night at dusk. It was getting pretty cold and I think they were all trying to stock up for the night. Usually we have one main hummer who guards the feeder with ferocity, chasing off all who want to feed, but he was feeling generous last night and let some others join him. Sadly, there were 5 all feeding at once but by the time I could get the camera only three remained. Still, nice to see them all sharing.

I got some new to me seeds to try while at the fancy garden shop, because why not. I am going to try pepperoncinis this year, Thai chili's again this year, they didn't go last year, and some tabasco chilis. Also got a couple of new to me tomatoes to try. Small tomatoes do best here because of the heat of the summer. Hope everyone else is dreaming of their spring garden.
WeeKreekFarmGirl

Thanks for the great update! The hummingbirds look sweet!

Puttering

Allow me to introduce you to the most ridiculous yet amazing thing you will see this week. pic.twitter.com/MHlGmz9Ph2

— fragrance and foolishness (@Brieyonce) February 27, 2023

Gardens of The Horde

KT, This work week ended up being a little more eventful than I expected, so I only remembered to send you these after seeing the gardening post. That is the most "rdohd" thing ever.

This tabebuia was originally planted in our backyard at the corner of the porch and was just in the wrong spot. Early one spring I dug it up and moved it to the front. It was really too late to move it, but I kept the root ball moist all spring until the summer storms began, and here it is 10+ years later in all its February glory.

Either my mother, or my mother-in-law gave us these amaryllis's. They too are early bloomers, which is fortunate as they have a full southern exposure now that we removed our laurel oak. Like most lilies they are inconspicuous broad leafed plants when not in bloom.

The Mrs. and I garden more by benign neglect than as hobbyist's, so the hardiness of the plant determines what we grow and what we don't.

I hope this Lent has us all appreciating God's creations.

Best,
rdohd

Hope everyone has a nice weekend.

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Week in Review

What has changed since last week's thread? Gardening, Puttering and Adventure Thread, Feb. 25

Any thoughts or questions?

I closed the comments on this post so you wouldn't get banned for commenting on a week-old post, but don't try it anyway.

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