There are about a hundred potted perennials out on my front lawn right now as the latest wintry mix hits our area, and someone dropped off a huge box of cell trays and small pots to us yesterday. Some of them will go to our local library for their gardeners workshops and to prep for their annual plant sale fundraiser, some will go to the Master Gardeners program for their spring fundraiser, and I will attempt to find space for what we end up keeping.
What’s growing on with you all?
My wife grew a person this winter, so I haven’t been able to even clean out last years leftovers from my greenhouse yet, but two of my spice plants (not sure if it’s the right term) has sprouted again on their own (Oregano and Chives) 🥳 And I started housing a grape last year that I hope has survived winter, just have to remember watering it and repot it if I can find the time for it. My mother will probably bring me some tomato and chili sprouts if I ask her, she always ends up with way too many of both 😅
Never before have I heard of what I would call herbs referred to as spice plants, but I love it. Congrats on the new family addition.
I’ve got daffodils popping up, and about 40 tulips I planted last fall
I love seeing the daffs, they’ll even poke through the snow to tell you spring is just around the corner
My kale sprouts are coming in very nicely! Trying from seed again this year and I’m feeling good about it. The heatwave just wrecked them last year and I wasn’t on my game with watering enough, but not this time! I also have some other seeds starting to sprout as well: camomile, catnip, sunflowers and microgreens, as well as a few pumpkin sprouts that are starting to make themselves known.
My pepper plants are starting to bounce back from being over-wintered, and they always produce a big yield so I’m excited. I’ve added a few new species to the mix so we’ll see how that goes. I’m looking forward to making hot sauce again, but this time I’ll have ghost peppers to add to the mix >:)
My apartment balcony looks like a jungle, and it is my happy place, lol.
Yum! I was hoping to make hot sauce last year but there was just too much rain for happy peppers.
I’m excited that my saffron bulbs overwintered. I’m growing in containers in NYC (7b). We’ll see if they survive the summer!
Fingers crossed for you, that’s awesome! A buddy near me went hard ordering saffron this past autumn but we have some time to go before they’ll pop
Huh! Mine popped when I planted them in the fall, and haven’t gone dormant at all - they hung out with the garlic being green all winter.
Still a little too early here in Maine. We’re bracing for a huge winter storm that will bring us 20 inches over the next couple of days.
However, by next week it will all be gone since the temps will rise into the mid 60s.
Looking forward to spring and growing vegetables in my garden (tomatoes, cucumbers, and other typical salad making items).
Oh lawd, she comin
(we’re the orange dot down by Wells and Kittery, in the Berwicks). But I have a suspicion you’re going to get it worse than we do.
We are going to get pummeled. 55 mph wind gusts! Power outages! YEAH! Although, we have a whole house generator.
We’re excited for our second year of planting. Our sprouts are sprouting! I’d share a photo, but my client isn’t working 😞. Says the image is invalid.
Anyway, we have a bunch of little baby sprouts coming in on our little sprout tray from the hardware store. We’re also looking forward to planting some grass after this week’s snowstorm… In April. We’re in mud season and we’re approaching 3rd winter I guess.
Thanks for the suggestion OP. Cropping works!
If you can, see about cropping some of the photo, or uploading to a client like imgur or imgbb. Beehaw uploads have to be less than 4mb, and below 4000x4000 pixels.
@remington@beehaw.org and I sympathize with you, we’re getting hammered by snow right now
