It's a little cold here yet, but I've just started my seeds in a flat. I'm
using an old waterbed heater to warm the soil. I grow sunflowers every
year. In fact they are voluntaries and I just leave them for the birds.



"gardener" wrote in message
...
I am starting my organic garden this week and wonder if there are other
folks
out there who are doing the same.
I know you are supposed to plant radishes and lettuces directly into the
soil,
but I did them in flats first.
Have you ever transplanted radishes? I am going to try it.
I did the same with my beets.
Also, has someone else successfully grown Sunflowers?
I know this may be off the preserving subject, but
if you are preserving you are probably growing as well.
the gardener

I'm planting extremely little lately because so much of my gardening funds
went to flagstones & other landscaping materials, but I've been preparing
new garden spaces AS THOUGH i could afford to fill them with new things. I
have been doing some transplanting into new areas, for anything that has
struggled in its old locations or which could not be seen easily enough.
Some loganberry bushes for instance, stopped producing berries in their
increasingly shady location as big shrubs got bigger all 'round them, so
now they're in a spot where they get a smidgen of afternoon sun which I
sure hope will be enough to liven them up. Sometimes not being able to go
out & splurge on new things is useful, when there's already so much needs
to be done without adding new plants with new tasks.

-paghat the ratgirl

--
"Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher.
"Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature.
-from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers"
See the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com/

I'm planting extremely little lately because so much of my gardening funds
went to flagstones & other landscaping materials, but I've been preparing
new garden spaces AS THOUGH i could afford to fill them with new things. I
have been doing some transplanting into new areas, for anything that has
struggled in its old locations or which could not be seen easily enough.
Some loganberry bushes for instance, stopped producing berries in their
increasingly shady location as big shrubs got bigger all 'round them, so
now they're in a spot where they get a smidgen of afternoon sun which I
sure hope will be enough to liven them up. Sometimes not being able to go
out & splurge on new things is useful, when there's already so much needs
to be done without adding new plants with new tasks.

-paghat the ratgirl

--
"Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher.
"Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature.
-from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers"
See the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com/

I'm planting extremely little lately because so much of my gardening funds
went to flagstones & other landscaping materials, but I've been preparing
new garden spaces AS THOUGH i could afford to fill them with new things. I
have been doing some transplanting into new areas, for anything that has
struggled in its old locations or which could not be seen easily enough.
Some loganberry bushes for instance, stopped producing berries in their
increasingly shady location as big shrubs got bigger all 'round them, so
now they're in a spot where they get a smidgen of afternoon sun which I
sure hope will be enough to liven them up. Sometimes not being able to go
out & splurge on new things is useful, when there's already so much needs
to be done without adding new plants with new tasks.

-paghat the ratgirl

--
"Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher.
"Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature.
-from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers"
See the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com/

I'm planting extremely little lately because so much of my gardening funds
went to flagstones & other landscaping materials, but I've been preparing
new garden spaces AS THOUGH i could afford to fill them with new things. I
have been doing some transplanting into new areas, for anything that has
struggled in its old locations or which could not be seen easily enough.
Some loganberry bushes for instance, stopped producing berries in their
increasingly shady location as big shrubs got bigger all 'round them, so
now they're in a spot where they get a smidgen of afternoon sun which I
sure hope will be enough to liven them up. Sometimes not being able to go
out & splurge on new things is useful, when there's already so much needs
to be done without adding new plants with new tasks.

-paghat the ratgirl

--
"Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher.
"Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature.
-from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers"
See the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com/

I have already started seeds of sweet peas, big boy tomatoes, hot peppers,
and sunflowers!

Today I planted my gems I just got from niche gardens : echinacea (yellow
and lavendar) rudbeckia, and asters. I am trying their 7 foot black eyed susans
this year!

Love caryn
"Come into my garden, my flowers want to meet you!"

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arden (NAearthMOM) writes:

Today I planted my gems I just got from niche gardens : echinacea (yellow
and lavendar) rudbeckia, and asters. I am trying their 7 foot black eyed
susans
this year!

Love caryn

Hi Caryn
Good planting!
I've been planting this week too. Not on Monday, we went wildflower
watching in the western foothills: Ithuriel's Spear ( triteleia)
several kinds of lupines, gilia, and CA poppies-beautiful! Snow still
on the mountains peaks.

Tues and Wed were planting days. Front yard, Palmer's penstemon,
Fuji Dawn violet, Purple needlegrass and Diascia, purple sweet alyssum.
Around the patio, Potato vine(Solanum ), a variegated fuchsia,
3 6 packs of begonias and 3 of impatiens, nasturtium Red Wonder,
and a coral Pulmonaria
In the Razzle Dazzle Sizzling Hot Bed a Salvia karwinskii (tall, pink).

Yesterday it rained a nice soaking rain, which gave everyting a
nice drink and my muscles a rest! Also got rid of the mulberry
tree pollen and will bring out more wildflowers. And added some
snow to the higher elevations.

I am still waiting for my Bluestone order, and have a number of
other things to plant: Sidalcea, Ceanothus, and Rabbitbrush, all
CA natives. (if the soil dries out some today. ) Oh and tomatoes too

Emilie
NorCal

you go girl!

Aaah, to be in california!

Love caryn
"Come into my garden, my flowers want to meet you!"