What's Growing In Your Garden? Horticultural Science

[Turtle]

___Well, there's nothing like watching peas grow, ehh? I have 12 little peat pots with seeds starting indoors & since we are having what appears to be an early spring, I'm gowing to sow the rest directly in the ground.
___One way or another, I will bring peas to table.

[Fishteacher73]

Does a watched pea pot grow?

I have a jade plant (Crassula argentea). All I have to do for it is water it when I remember to (About opnce a week) and I tend to turn it in the window when I do this to keep it from growing too lop-sided. It is doing well, I am having to re-pot the plant soon; It has gotten too big for the pot it has. Not too bad for buying from the clearence rack at Target because it was raggedy looking.

[Turtle]

Jade plants are cool. Easy to clone, long lived, nice to touch, interesting bark, & not too fussy. How big is it now?
___By the by, 5 of the 12 peas in a pot have sprouted today. The garden guy told me they would take a long time to germinate. What's it been; 4 days? Maybe it's the volcano! I have volcano peas!
___Now I don't put but 1 seed in each hole, contrary to what they all say. So wasteful for the few I grow; I especially hate plucking new baby plants like they say when 2 or more come up. Put all that time & care in & then just pinch it off; no, I take my chances with 1 per pot/hole. If they grow they grow, if nothing comes up I try another seed.

[Turtle]

___I haven't any pictures, but today I put 6 little pea plants into the ground in the garden. The other six in the tray are having a rough go of things. That's 11 days now & I think the package said 6 weeks to harvest. Each little plant had 2 sets of well formed leaves & a well developed root system; into the bottom of each planting hole I sprinkled some 4-4-4 organic fertilizer. We have lately night temps about 40 deg F, but this week they are forecasting lower. If you remember, our little peas are supposed to tolerate even frezzing weather now.
___Also in one corner of the garden, I planted 3 red onions from last years harvest as they had shoots starting.
___What's growing in your gardens?

[Turtle]

___Today find a photo of the little pea plants in the garden in the Gallery @
http://www.hypography.com/gallery/sh...e.php?i=83&c=3
___We have received some rain over the last several days; I measured .35" in the gauge yesterday. The evenings are cooler again & the peas seem to be holding their own with this now typical March weather. We still here in the PNW have a serious drought situation with both rainfall & snowpacks at near record low levels for the last 150 years or so.
___I think next time I get out I will pick up some radish seeds for the garden & as we lengthen into Spring a tomatoe plant or two will follow.
___Keep on growing!

[Tormod]

Nice photo!

Nothing growing in our garden...we live in an apartment with a terrace...Yvonne keeps it nice and flowered up in the summer but there's not that much to do about it.

[Turtle]

___Thanks on the photo compliment; seems we are figuring the images out well enough.
___What flowers do you grow? We have a round headed kid that lives in the house & last year the local burger joint gave out little plastic shovels & rakes & packets of seeds. We did a little plot out front with Asters together & now I see we have lots of little Aster shoots that have reseeded.
___Anyway, when does Spring come to you guys in Oslo & what flowers will you grow?

[Tormod]

I need to talk to Yvonne about the flowers...I'm green in that area (lol).

Spring comes around mid April, sometimes end of March.

[Turtle]

___Well, it's the middle of the night & it's storming...the last time I checked yesterday the peas were OK & I had .5" rain in the gauge. Unfortunately, the landlord called yesterday to say he is selling the place & we all have to move. These better be some pretty fast peas!
___As I have to start packing up stuff, I may not have more pictures, but I will post pea progress providing providence proffers promise. Keep on gardening!

[justforfun]

Are we discussing gardens? Oh boy! I live in New Mexico and we had a warm and wet winter and seemed headed for an early Spring so I planted early (mostly sunflowers) and got a few sprouts then last Tuesday we had a late snowstorm and below freezing temps, but everything survived it. I still have more stuff to plant, but I'm gonna wait a bit.