tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1423140573667417407.post7774770087488362897..comments2024-03-18T12:04:27.789-05:00Comments on A Home Grown Journal: Good Morning, Sunshine!Mama Peahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03649357184167949247noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1423140573667417407.post-13399776409073888362022-05-07T15:57:41.920-05:002022-05-07T15:57:41.920-05:00JustGail - We don't put out our hummingbird fe...JustGail - We don't put out our hummingbird feeders until the 15th of this month. Unless we see an early bird (pun intended) and then we scramble to get him/her some much needed food after the long journey back up here to the north woods. 'Tis curious to hear some of your plants in Iowa, where it should be much warmer than it is for us up here in northern Minnesota, are slow to get going this year. We've yet to see our first dandelion, but I know they will come!Mama Peahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03649357184167949247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1423140573667417407.post-41919219409071270182022-05-07T13:33:34.097-05:002022-05-07T13:33:34.097-05:00I'm glad you have a lot of birds. I *just* pu...I'm glad you have a lot of birds. I *just* put up the hummingbird and oriole feeder. I've been waffling, as one group says not to so birds don't gather to spread bird flu, another says go ahead - well fed birds have better chance of surviving it. After that hummer gave me the stink eye, I put it up. One thing I've noticed - we don't have nearly as many doves as we did this winter. I'm hoping it's due to scattering for nesting season, not that they've been hit that hard by the flu.<br /><br />Yay for a full to the brim pond, especially after it got so low last year. My plants seem late this year too (Iowa) hostas are just poking out now, OTOH the fern leaf peonies look like they'll be blooming shortly. They always do bloom much earlier than "regular" ones. I don't have much for spring flowers, unless dandelions count.JustGailhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08948391538309176039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1423140573667417407.post-53059341623866898042022-05-06T20:05:22.611-05:002022-05-06T20:05:22.611-05:00Tim - I worked in a couple of my raised beds today...Tim - I worked in a couple of my raised beds today (Friday) and was surprised to see that the soil felt warm a couple of inches down. So I planted some onions! I'm kinda ashamed to admit I've never tried growing onions from seed. I always purchase the onion sets (little bulbs) and have had great luck with them. But just in case I am unable to get the sets some year, I do keep a back-up supply of seeds. Don't you have to start the seeds inside way before transplanting them outside?Mama Peahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03649357184167949247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1423140573667417407.post-343644118537449542022-05-05T08:15:49.305-05:002022-05-05T08:15:49.305-05:00I watch a USDA type site that records soil tempera...I watch a USDA type site that records soil temperatures. We have been below average all spring long. Then, our 10 year average curve popped back up to where it should be. Now, if the air and sun will come along, we will be in business!<br /><br />I'm going to try direct sowing onion seeds this year. Plants are not available at the store, so what the heck - I'll give it a go. Have you ever tried this?Tim B. Inmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08143483015560273896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1423140573667417407.post-26491106728237925812022-05-05T05:53:28.680-05:002022-05-05T05:53:28.680-05:00Rosalea - Wish we could think of planting our pota...Rosalea - Wish we could think of planting our potatoes in a week or so as you are, but it will be longer than that for us! Our forecast promises some "warm" weather today and tomorrow but more rain over the weekend again. Such is spring!Mama Peahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03649357184167949247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1423140573667417407.post-84016412374080895262022-05-04T11:13:57.894-05:002022-05-04T11:13:57.894-05:00What is it with Wood Ducks and small puddles? They...What is it with Wood Ducks and small puddles? They do the same here. Good to know your snow is melting and sprouts are sprouting. Won't be long now! And yes, those onions know. Mine are sprouting to, potatoes not so much, just tiny sprouts, and will be perfect for planting in a week or so. Really looking forward to your new landscape pictures.Rosaleahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09403965807770816977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1423140573667417407.post-56019438839376960572022-05-04T05:42:47.543-05:002022-05-04T05:42:47.543-05:00Jenn - I find the very best chives I can cut and f...Jenn - I find the very best chives I can cut and freeze for use throughout the year (and I preserve and use a bunch of them!) are ones taken from the very first growth . . . when they get to a big enough size. So I watch them like a hawk and am eager to cut them at what I find to be just the right time. They're my first garden harvest!<br /><br />Michelle - We are a smidge late this year (seems to me), but you always have and photograph so very many spring blooms that we simply don't have until a month, or even two, later. 'Tis amazing how different our seasons are, isn't it? :o)<br /><br />Kristina - I think your location may be a bit south of what we had back in Illinois, but I always will remember that our tulips there were completely done and I always put annual flowers in that bed at the end of April. Here the tulips are just barely poking through now! Mama Peahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03649357184167949247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1423140573667417407.post-73287231066221452442022-05-04T04:34:51.978-05:002022-05-04T04:34:51.978-05:00Oh wow! What a difference our seasons are. Here ...Oh wow! What a difference our seasons are. Here our daffidils are done for the spring, and we too just had a ton of rain. In fact, there was a tornado warning last night.Pioneer Woman at Hearthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16533698959389851926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1423140573667417407.post-90885026578365576492022-05-03T15:27:35.361-05:002022-05-03T15:27:35.361-05:00And our daffodils (back home) are finished. Have o...And our daffodils (back home) are finished. Have our seasons been this separated in the past? I don't think we were early in Oregon, so maybe you ARE laster this year!Michellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01550786937196525098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1423140573667417407.post-87916571625421126202022-05-03T09:03:39.761-05:002022-05-03T09:03:39.761-05:00Could it be... is it possibly... spring? I don'...Could it be... is it possibly... spring? I don't have chives anymore, but I remember going out and snapping off the first little shoots just to smell them. -Jenncoffeeontheporchwithmehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17618627688821849806noreply@blogger.com