What did you do in the garden today?

[jawilliams509]

Threw coats on the boys and turned them out. High temp coming Monday -2F, windchill -40F.View attachment 3722716

They are cuuuuute!

 

[CNJ]

The Seed King Express Tycoon tomato seeds I just got from Amazon doesn't have the green coating like the Tycoon seeds I got from Reimer Seeds, and I got twice the number of seeds at the same price with free shipping. Furthermore, Seed King Express is located in Texas the home of the Tycoon tomato, so I hope the plants that grow are resistant to the TYLC virus like advertised and produce big tomatoes. It says heirloom, so I hope they are stable and replicate. I think its generic. I'll hold my review until I get a crop. There are no reviews, so I am not sure what I am getting.

 

[TJAnonymous]

We had 40-50 mph winds today.... I heard a loud bang on the house. Prayed that a tree didn't come down on the roof or a vehicle. Luckily, it was just the dumpster. Wind picked it up and threw it against the house. No damage though. Tomorrow will be just as bad (wind- & cold-wise) and then several more inches of rain on Thursday. The real sucky weather comes this weekend.....highs around 20, lows in single digits. Yuck. Going to move my rosemary inside. On Saturday before the cold hits, I'll move Peter (our Nigerian Dwarf buck) into an empty stall in the barn. It will be far too cold to leave him solo in his pen without the girls to help keep him warm. I'll probably move Pepe (our ND wether) in with him for company. Peter is actually Pepe's daddy. I hope they get along okay together.... Oh yeah, in positive news, DH bought me some new coveralls just in time for the crappy cold weather.

And to help combat the winter gardening doldrums, I think I'm going to jump on Excel and plan out my garden layout this evening.....

 

[Birdsonghill]

The Seed King Express Tycoon tomato seeds I just got from Amazon doesn't have the green coating like the Tycoon seeds I got from Reimer Seeds, and I got twice the number of seeds at the same price with free shipping. Furthermore, Seed King Express is located in Texas the home of the Tycoon tomato, so I hope the plants that grow are resistant to the TYLC virus like advertised and produce big tomatoes. It says heirloom, so I hope they are stable and replicate. I think its generic. I'll hold my review until I get a crop. There are no reviews, so I am not sure what I am getting.

OP heirloom tomatoes get the Lion's place on my list. Every year I try at least one new Old variety! I do grow a couple hybrid blight resistant varieties every year as well. I never heard of the Tycoon and will be waiting to hear your remarks this season.

 

[Molpet]

I did not know this. Seems I'm always learning new interesting facts on BYC all the time.
Now try not to bark you shins. That hurts!

Everyone, be careful during this crazy weather. Would love to see some snow pictures.

This was from last weekend

 

[WthrLady]

They are cuuuuute!

They have their moments.

 

[chickengr]

Yes, Sally PB, just 5 degrees could help a lot here as well! It has hit below 10 degrees F here the last several years now. That is unheard of in my Lifetime. Yet somehow they want to classify us in a warmer grow zone now at the USDA and USWS. They both know it is a distortion of facts. My Celeste fig tree grew undamaged for fifteen years here getting fifteen feet high and ten feet in circumference easily and now has burnt to the ground level for the last four years in a row! That only happens with temps below ten degrees F here. In fact I have been growing tropical Hawaiian ginger on the south side of my house by the back porch for over twenty years successfully just leaving it mulched with it's own dead fronds over winter. I wonder how much longer it will make it in the colder winters we are experiencing here now? Gardenias have been tender perennials here my entire lifetime but now are almost impossible without very good green house like covers to survive now. Zone 7b for decades now zone 8a is a sick lie to the people here where I live. Yes, we are a boundry line area that various seasons make all the difference, but continuing defining patterns of actual climate change that define a trend is it is getting colder in the winters more often, without stooping to altering or distorting realities on the ground. I don't know what the weather is like at 40,000 ft ASL. maybe that is were they get their misleading information they use. AI may be the tool they are using to spread a programmers dreams about weather change. A weatherman on the ground here would tell a different story if he could be honest without jeopardizing his job! The story likely varies a bit across the nation as does the weather naturally vary from region to region and so may the changes. But here it is clearly a big distortion about warmer climate , so far anyway!

they need to justify a global warming myth.

 

[chickengr]

it rained both yesterday and at night. temperature dropped but I have a lot of work outside so I hope no more rain at daytime.

 

[CNJ]

OP heirloom tomatoes get the Lion's place on my list. Every year I try at least one new Old variety! I do grow a couple hybrid blight resistant varieties every year as well. I never heard of the Tycoon and will be waiting to hear your remarks this season.

There are more videos on Red Snapper and Hossinator than there are on Tycoon Tomatoes on You Tube. The Hossinator has resistance to the Isreal strain of the TYLCV tomato virus and the Red Snapper has resisatance to another type of TYLCV. The Hossinator does better in my yard.

I haven't tried the Tycoon tomato yet, but I like the small size and large tomatoes in this video. It also has the TYLCV resistance which are dominate in my yard. We have to watch this video on You Tube.

 

[NanaK]

This was from last weekend
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Thanks!
It is so pretty when it lays against the trees and bushes.
Beautiful dog! What does he think of the snow?

I had a Lab that hated it. He was a couch potato. My Golden Retriever would run around crazy and roll in it. He would have icicles in his fur.
We don't get snow very often. Then it's gone the next day.