On Thu, 22 Apr 2004 07:48:30 -0600, "Jackee" not available wrote:

I noticed there are a few of you from the Boise/Nampa area. That is
wonderful! This is my first year of gardening and any and all advice or
knowledge you share in here is appreciated. I have to ask, are your gardens
in? If so what are you planting this year? What grows best in this area?
Any success stories or hard lessons learned from gardening in the valley? I
am also looking in to putting some fruit trees in for next year. Is it true
I can plant these in the fall?
Thanks again-
The Novice Gardener


Oh yes, reading tmtresh's response .. reminded me .. there are some
thornless blackberry plants in the back yard that got planted finally
last fall, Waldo and Black Satin, and a Gooseberry that's supposed to
be mostly thornless .. that I can't remember the name of at the
moment.. supposed to be small grape size red berries. I have some
pixwell still growing in the yard that never did well where it was,
one never setting fruit that was in full shade, it grow well and huge,
and another that would set fruit but then drop them all.. probably too
dry, but it too managed to grow and sucker all over and .. oh my
THORNY!!! I need to get the last of the last plant dug out. There is
also a real live red all the way through rhubarb that got *planted*
last year (I have had a real bad habit of getting them and not getting
them in the ground so it's a miracle! ;-) I had a Victoria years
ago, but it was green all the way through most of the stalk, some
would have a bit of red skin, but it was a HUGE plant 3' long or more
leaves. Chickens killed it finally. That covers the edibles. I do
have some mighty nice bleeding hearts blooming though .. oh and
there's some egyptian onions that managed to survive an unwarranted
attack by someone "helping" me.. I didn't get to the door fast enough
to say.. Don't mess with that onion! She'd already gotten it!
Purple sage plant is well and happy, and there appears to be a green
sage seedling that grew from the 3 others I had cut out last year to
make room for the clematis and some poppies.

Janice