skipinnz: We have clay soil and really have to work it good.Plus add alot of peatmoss and etc,Every other year we save seeds to use cause of the soil.I checked our compost it's frozen.

Foxy Lady: I do but i also buy buttercups each year because the seed doesn't stay true.

skipinnz: Do you save the seeds for the following year to plant?

Rose: I tried growing pumpkins once,i was told to inject them with milk. I did and they grew than got all mushy.I'm with you we had snow yesterday and another storm coming in.We can't plant till the end of May.This year it maybe later.

Recipe board.. Best muffins in da world!

Rose: Easy to get that many when you have a gully you can plant them in LOL. Haven't tried muffins will look around for a receipe.

skipinnz:WOW! 30 is amazing. I figure with the start of this years season I will be lucky to get 5! Do you make muffins as well? My most favourite muffin is pumpkin! YUM!  

Rose: Glad to see someone else grows pumpkin's, I've just pulled out mine, had a bumper crop got 30 stored away for pumpkin soup and scones

Eriisa: All this talk of flowers makes me jealous. We had snow saturday and I was just getting ready to lime the yard.. Our grass isnt green, the tulips arent up yet nor are the iris's.. I figure were looking at a late start to our season this year.. Wont be much fun since we planned on putting in cukes and pumpkins. U need 100+ days for good pumpkins or more..

My roses out back are on overload with blooming. I never got around to pruning them, and I guess they are rejoicing. lol

Foxy Lady:

NO NO NO SNOW!
We are getting rained on heavily for the next week, or so it appears.

Good for those May Flowers!

☼ajtgirl☼: Were close are you expecting Snow we are.

Foxy Lady:

April showers bring May Flowers


What do Mayflowers bring?


Pilgrims...     a dumb little kid joke

brings May flowers.What does April Snow bring?  Headaches 

Well it was right just a few days late it snowed here.Guess my daffys and Tulips will go back to sleep.

Foxy Lady:We might get black ice once or twice a year and it's only in certain areas.

skipinnz: Black ice is my biggest fear of winter.

Foxy Lady: Pretty mild we get a few frosty mornings but no snow, worst we we get is fog and black ice but thats not so common now adays

skipinnz: Are your winters mild?

Foxy Lady: At least we don't get the snow that you people get over there. I'll stick to our mild climate anytime.

Dolittle: NorthEast has a bad snow storm coming in it doesn't look like were going to get any,at least i hope not.

skipinnz: Oh your going into Fall poor you.

I have iris ready to bloom...can already see color on some!!

Foxy Lady: Our season is a bit silly at the moment we've got freisas coming out in autumn

Mousetrap: I hope so

Foxy Lady: Tiptoee through the Tulips!

Mine are starting or trying to show themselves.It sure will be great seeing color except white.

BerniceC: LOL i fixed it.

Foxy Lady: HAHAHA....it looks so funny...

BerniceC: No i wish i had one tho.I'm on my laptop and i 'm really dumb about it.My webtv i could do sleeping.

Foxy Lady: hahaha have you been having a wee tipple HAHAHAHA

My daffys are coming thru looks like its around the corner my daffys are coming thru.Anybody else got any Spring flowers coming up

☼ajtgirl☼: I haven't checked mine we got about 5 ft of snow in the backyard.I'll try to keep it up here but not a promise.

☼ajtgirl☼: Our daffs are open and we had snow last week lmbo!

Foxy Lady:

Please keep it to yourself up there, Foxy !!!!!
My daffodils are trying to open

Predicts a snowfall April 2 for heavens sake.

BerniceC:

I understand how many varieties of Oxalis could become a pestic plant in certain locales.  It could not survive the winters such as we have in the northern USA.  It is typically sold in the USA as an ornamental houseplant, especially around St. Patty's Day.  I can imagine though that a field of them could be quit lovely to see, however difficult they are too kill off.  Much like bamboo.
In Maine there are certain varieties of lithrum which are considered weeds, but purchased here in NY by avid gardeners for their beauty and hardiness.  In Hawaii the verbena and impatiens that are naturalized there are pulled out as weeds.

BerniceC: I couldn't believe I was reading that somebody was selling oxalis. It certainly is a noxious weed in NZ I've got 3 types growing in my gardens & lawn. Thankfully I have mainly creeping oxalis which isn't so bad but it certainly creeps.

☼ajtgirl☼: here is something I found.....
Notes: The genus Oxalis includes over 800 species of annual or perennial, stemmed or stemless, herbs and shrubs, often with underground bulbs or tubers. A few are aquatic species. Of the thirty species of Oxalis in Australia, twenty are naturalised and many are existing or potential serious pests in various parts of the country. Twenty two species of Oxalis were listed in Victorian nursery catalogues between 1855 and 1889. Eleven species are described in Gardening Australia's Flora (2003) with acknowledgement that 'some of the world's worst weeds belong in Oxalis,…'

One species of concern in Victoria is Soursob, Oxalis pes-caprae which invades coastal heath vegetation, grassland, woodland and dry forest. It also occurs along roadsides, and in gardens, crops and pastures. It is distinguished by the three heart-shaped leaflets with or without stalks which fold in dull days or at night. Flowers are bright yellow in colour and open in sunlight and close at night. There are masses of underground bulbs which are spread by water, birds, in dumped garden waste and during cultivation.

☼ajtgirl☼: OXALIS????
If I remember correctly oxalis is a noxious weed in New Zealand...maybe skip could verify that as I havent lived there since '78.

☼ajtgirl☼: Thanks for helping out.

nobleheart:

http://www.easytogrowbulbs.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWCATS&Category=13&gclid=COjG9pC-gosCFQstUAodiGDwEQ

Turns out Shamrocks (Oxalis)  are a bulb
We buy them in from other wholesales and don't grow them ourselves

Hope the link works

nobleheart:
Sorry to answer so late
We sell a plant around St. Patty's Day which is marketed as Irish Shamrocks
It is called Oxalis and it has large clover shaped leaves and tiny little white or bluish flowers
The leaves can be bright green or a deep red
I'll try to find a picture

nobleheart:Have you tried Google? Maybe ajtgirl can answer that question she owns a nursery.

Oceans Apart: We missed the storm but Albany,NY got 23 inches.

Well daylight saving has finished, and the temps are dropping so it looks like our winter is on its way. At least we don't get snow. LOL

state flower:
http://www.50states.com/flower.htm
state trees:
http://www.usna.usda.gov/Gardens/collections/statetreeflower.html

nobleheart: I think you should ask an Irishman!

more snow..grrrr..very funny mother nature..you can my kiss cheeks .
all kidding aside,someone asked me if I new were to get real shamrocks seeds.I was told it is NOT clover,but a diff plant..anyone know?

Foxy Lady: Yuo sam here, it has been beautiful the last few days, now we have snow coming in tomorrow