OK, stop it. Just stop it.

[WilliamPitt]

All you people who live in warm places where stuff is, like, growing and stuff...just stop it.

You're making my mom (Raven) insane.

She lives in the woods of NH, and has this absolutely amazing garden set to go...but it's under approximately forty thousand billion feet of snow.

She basically stocked the local food back last year with everything she grew...and reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeally wants to get started again. But there's that forty thousand billion feet of snow.

When I go visit her, and she always says to me, "Ooooohh, grrrr, those gardening forum people who live in warm places are already turning their soil and planting, ooooohhh!"

So yeah, just stop it. Nobody here is allowed to do any gardening until the Memorial Day. If she has to wait that long, so do you.

So there.

;)

:hug:

[NMDemDist2]

1. hey Will

fuck you man

:rofl:


there's a reason we put up with sweltering hell in August

:evilgrin:

[WilliamPitt]

2. Arizona? What do you grow there, scorpions? Rattlesnakes?

Bad baseball teams?

Ooooooh, a stingah.

;)

:)

[NMDemDist2]

3. silly, I moved to New Mexico a year and a half ago

but it's still hot and dry and dusty (I know, I'm a freak)

here I'm growing apples, apricots, tomatoes, squash, cantelope, watermelon, onion, lettuce, herbs of all kinds, corn, broccoli, radish, carrots, peas and sunflowers

eat you heart out

and I should get about three crops this year between April and November :P

[WilliamPitt]

4. Snarky desert people with fresh produce makes the Baby Jesus cry.

:P

[NMDemDist2]

5. yeah well, that Jesus dude was OK

and I've always hated babies in human form.

I do feel for Raven though, it's still too cold here at night to get any tender seedlings out (and the wind is blowing 30mph right now) so even though my beds are tilled and composted I'm still holding back starting any seeds until next month.

Buy her a nice hothouse house plant to give her something to fuss over until the snow melts

:pals: for Raven

[BOSSHOG]

6. I had to mow today but it was a little cool - upper 60's

Bit its still too damned cold to plant tomatoes. Maybe I should move further south.

[Raven]

7. Will, why don't you go back to GD-P where you can really make trouble and

leave these nice people alone!:-)

[WilliamPitt]

8. Ha. Next you'll be asking me to shovel the snow out of your garden...

...so I can thaw out the soil with a blow-dryer.

Jeez.

;)

:hug:

[LiberalEsto]

9. I hear you

I'm freezing my fanny off in Rockville, Maryland. My daughter just moved to New Orleans a few weeks ago. She has never shown the slightest interest in my vegetable and flower gardens. Out of the blue, she casually mentions in a recent e-mail:

"By the way, I planted some tomatoes and basil in the yard."



:cry: :mad: :grr: :nuke:

[fed-up]

10. my BF's organic farm in CA has great kale, chards, lettuce, onions, carrots, beets, turnips NOW

move your mom out to California where we have great growing weather along with a few earthquakes, forest fires, floods and windstorms :)

[Le Taz Hot]

11. So this is probably not a good time to mention

that I'm currently harvesting oranges, Swiss chard, turnips, parsnips and Mustard Greens AND the peas and leaks I started from seed A MONTH AGO are all popping up their cute little heads. I'll be starting the tomatoes, squash, melons, herbs, etc. this Saturday. :evilgrin:

[Kolesar]

12. I'll bring the ranch dressing...eom

[Blue Gardener]

13. The only thing I can harvest here in Iowa

Are the icicles hanging off the roof. We've had near-record snowfall this year and it hasn't been pleasant. On the plus side, we shouldn't have a drought anytime soon. I just look at the gardening catalogs and dream of warm weather. :hi:

[knitter4democracy]

14. She should check her zone.

Growing up here in Michigan, we always said Memorial Day weekend, too. Last year, that was two weeks too late. I should've checked my zone--they've changed them and moved up frost-free dates for pretty much everyone.

We're thawing a bit here in Michigan this week. Who knows when our last frost will be, though. My birthday's in early April, and it usually snows on or near my birthday, so I'm not planning on getting into my garden until after that.

It's just been an amazing snow year, though, hasn't it? Just amazing. The last time I remember snow and cold like this was the winter of 1993-4.

[Raven]

15. Amazing winter! Two storms a week for the last two months. And

lots of ice. Thanks for the zone information, I'll check it out.

[knitter4democracy]

16. I've been worried about the ice. So far, the trees look okay.

I'm not sure about the rest. The snow came on early enough that, with my health troubles, I never fully prepared the gardens last fall. I'm hoping I'll get time to get everything set this spring.