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  1. Miss Biddy

    Ended Official BYC Contest - Guess when we'll hit 16 Million posts and you can

    Yippie! Thank you.
  2. Miss Biddy

    Dreaming of Spring Gardening in the middle of a Wisconsin winter

    Well, my artichoke seedlings are doing well, as are my onion seedlings. I also have some Marigold, Indigo, Marjoram and Savory also sprouting. I started some tomatoes too, including one called Mountain Magic. The seeds were expensive, and I am hoping it does well. It's a hybrid plant so...
  3. Miss Biddy

    Ended Official BYC Contest - Guess when we'll hit 16 Million posts and you can

    15,992,303 posts as of 2/23/16 8:11PM, EST. Getting close!
  4. Miss Biddy

    Dreaming of Spring Gardening in the middle of a Wisconsin winter

    Yes, I suffer from plant/seed math too! Last year I had over 100 little herbs, tomatoes, etc started. I always order too much seed too. This year I'm going to try to sell some of them. I can sell them cheaper than the greenhouses and Lowes, and they're better quality too.
  5. Miss Biddy

    Dreaming of Spring Gardening in the middle of a Wisconsin winter

    Oh Dollar Seed is awesome! Plenty of good seed, for a buck. Yeah, what's happened to Johnny Seeds? Their shipping is too high also. Good seed, but the bulk of my ordering is the other three. High Mowing is good too, you might want to check them out also. No shipping charges. :)
  6. Miss Biddy

    Dreaming of Spring Gardening in the middle of a Wisconsin winter

    You're welcome. Don't be discouraged at any garden failures either. We all make mistakes, (I just lost all my Indigo seedlings because of stupidity on my part), just dust yourself off, and try again. Failure is a good learning opportunity. ETA: I swear by Fedco seeds, High Mowing...
  7. Miss Biddy

    Dreaming of Spring Gardening in the middle of a Wisconsin winter

    Winter squash, watermelon, and pickling cucumbers, muskmelon. (Don't know about okra sorry!) 1. Don't start them too early or late. Start them four weeks before your last frost date 2.. Warm up the soil they're to be planted in with black plastic. Garbage bags will work. They like the soil at...
  8. Miss Biddy

    Dreaming of Spring Gardening in the middle of a Wisconsin winter

    Well, I'm down by the ocean, and today collected a bunch of seaweed and other plants that washed up on the beach. I'll rinse them off, then throw them in my raised beds and compost pile. I love collecting stuff like that for the garden. My trunk reeks though, lol.
  9. Miss Biddy

    Dreaming of Spring Gardening in the middle of a Wisconsin winter

    Thank you for the hints! I like the idea about the flowers in particular
  10. Miss Biddy

    Dreaming of Spring Gardening in the middle of a Wisconsin winter

    I ended up leaving plants and Miss Biddy at home. My roommate promised to coddle them both. :)
  11. Miss Biddy

    Dreaming of Spring Gardening in the middle of a Wisconsin winter

    Dear Diary Our mother has to go out of town, and she's worried her roommate (who is a nice man!) will forget to water and tend to us. Dearest Diary, we're going to Cape Cod, Massachusetts! And so is our friend the grow light! We've never been to such a Zone before. This is our last chance to...
  12. Miss Biddy

    Dreaming of Spring Gardening in the middle of a Wisconsin winter

    ...going to grow them indoors until I can set them out. Plus, as I said, I want to sell some to recover my gardening costs. I figure $2.00 a plant* and they'll be pre-hardened off, unlike Lowe's and the greenhouses around here. Speaking of Lowes: they have a rack where they give away all...
  13. Miss Biddy

    Dreaming of Spring Gardening in the middle of a Wisconsin winter

    Thank you! :) Old Hen, next time you plant potatoes, plant some bush beans around them. It's supposed to repel the Colorado potato beetle. The farm I worked at is organic,(Birdsfoot Farm, Canton, NY) so we had to pick them/knock them off by hand into a bucket. Oddly, the ducks didn't even...
  14. Miss Biddy

    Dreaming of Spring Gardening in the middle of a Wisconsin winter

    Yes the peas and oats: it's a mixture I found at a True Value. I wish I had a greenhouse. Maybe someday! I never even thought the vibration would make the seedlings strong. :)
  15. Miss Biddy

    Dreaming of Spring Gardening in the middle of a Wisconsin winter

    No, but that is a good idea, about dehydrating in the car. Lol, I drive carefully with my flats in the car. Gardening has made me a better driver!
  16. Miss Biddy

    Ended Official BYC Contest - Guess when we'll hit 16 Million posts and you can

    2/25/2016 6:00PM Edited to change date and time.
  17. Miss Biddy

    Dreaming of Spring Gardening in the middle of a Wisconsin winter

    Every year, in my raised beds, I sow a cover crop of buckwheat. This year I threw down some winter wheat as a cover crop. Hoping like heck it comes through. No one grows straw around here, the farmers even have to buy it from Canada, so I'd love to have my own straw! Oh, one year I planted...
  18. Miss Biddy

    Dreaming of Spring Gardening in the middle of a Wisconsin winter

    *Waves* Hello from Northern New York! We keep getting hit with Late Blight on the tomatoes, so I'm taking a stand, lol. I've never grown potatoes, but the farm (a CSA farm) I worked at sparked my interest after I tasted them. What a difference between store bought. I was hooked on Carola in...
  19. Miss Biddy

    Dreaming of Spring Gardening in the middle of a Wisconsin winter

    Zone 4 gardener here. I ordered all my seeds from Fedco, Dollar Seed (a great company out of Central NY) and High Mowing. Started a new garden journal, organized my seeds by sow date, and already started some herbs, artichokes, and Brandywine tomatoes. I must be nuts to start the tomatoes so...
  20. Miss Biddy

    What's the temperature where you are???

    30°F (-1° C) supposed to get down to 12° F (-11° C) Not too bad really for Northern New York. ETA: expecting Lake Effect snow in an area I need to drive though. I can drive in nasty weather, but Lake Effect scares the poo out of me. It's shut Interstate 81 down before!
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