The 2022 Garden, Landscape, and Other Stuff Thread…

With the ice still on the lake here, the mud potholes in the country roads still slowing me down to a crawl... must say it is great to see the greenery and fruiting! Peaches and blueberries huh :)
 
taldesta said:
It's always spring somewhere :thumbsup: thanks drj211 drj211 !

Although we have left our gardens far behind us, one plant we returned for and rescued from those earliest frosts, our English Ivy, is thriving in a South facing window here in a cabin we've taken for the winter. Once all the rough and frost nipped leaves were removed and it was fed ... well you can see the enthusiasm in the green of its leaves.

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And we won't forget the little ones :) ... the cuttings that are quickly rooting. Ah yes, while snowmobiles transport the ice fishers out to their huts on the frozen lake, the boats wait patiently for blossom time in Northern Ontario ... me too.

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I know it is fun to watch the roots grow in the clear glass jar, but, they will root better if you block light in the water. Foil the whole glass jar and poke your cutting through the foil, but of course let the leaves have light.
 
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Hey, LEGION 12 LEGION 12 ... every living thing is reaching for the sunshine now that spring is in the air ... your tomato and pepper seedlings and the nasturtiums here that were planted on March 2nd as well. Yesterday I spotted my first robins of 2022! Big deal here!

Nasturtium seedlings and big pot of English Ivy have just been moved into the unheated 'Muskoka room' to harden them off - temps 9C (48F) inside their room ... (2C or 35F) outside on this overcast morning.

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Maple buds - hey, leaves can't be far behind, can they :) ? Open water is visible way out there where this small bay opens to Lake Nipissing. Pic last evening:


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And the small bay here is welcoming gulls and Canada Geese to a broad swath of open water ... more so with every warm day. Good grief it's snowing again as I write :thumbsdown:

Last evening: Ice turns to water - spring has arrived.

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cj65 cj65 ... from your past postings in gardening I know you know your stuff ... and thanks! Less slime/rot with roots in dark too. The little guys were potted up and are hardening off with other plants. There is no drainage in makeshift pots and new accommodations are in the works.

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I was out walking the dog this morning and saw this on the sidewalk. I’ve been here for 20 years and this is the first time I’ve seen one in my neighborhood!

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We're a tad behind with the pineapple production here - but the ice is finally out of the bay! On the twentieth waves were actually lapping on the shore ... spring milestones :rolleyes:

9 days (including today) left until Daisy and I hit the trail on our second summer camp travels - our first site will be at my old digs to help my daughter with the gardens. So it will be both a working and an easy start to the adventure 2022 just as it was last summer - holy cow electricity to the tent! Soft, soft start.

The leggy trailing nasturtiums are in their large pots now and many seedlings of upright variety are now popping up; planted last week. Temp in their unheated room hovers around 10C (50F) which is not great yet the seeds are germinating not rotting.

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Bee balm / holllyhock garden (pic last week) will be first on my list because the bee balm is over-running its borders as normal - lots to give away.

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Still debating whether to grow veggies in the old sod-walled garden or in containers. Always surprising to see how the wild weeds all around it can be controlled quite simply by the stacked sod.

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Daisy and I both miss the lake ice. She could gallop on her joy runs forever it seemed across the frozen surface ... and I have enough pics and vids to finish another of her Doodle rides Shotgun stories. But, as beautiful as it was before it left the lake, we are happy that the ice is finally out :)

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