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Pastimes : Gardening and Especially Tomato Growing -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Crocodile who wrote (876)	3/12/2000 9:54:00 AM
From: Annette	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3495

I'm going to have to plot out a garden space and rototill it when it gets warmer....and off course I will have to deer proof the area too!! There's another decorative type tree that doesn't get so huge up here called the Serviceberry, I'm looking to get one too!

To: Crocodile who wrote (876)	3/13/2000 1:15:00 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3495

My husband bought a couple of apricot trees today. They are blooming, and in really big pots - not sure the size, 5 or 10 gallon, anyway, we had to lie them on their sides in the back of the Rover to get them home, and the branches were between the front seats, so I could bend over and smell them when I was stopped at a traffic light. The blossoms smelled very sweet, and are a delicate, pale pink. The peach trees are also blooming, the blossoms are dark pink. But it got very cold again today, and the tree man said we shouldn't plant them until the nights are at 40-50 degrees Farenheit for good, otherwise the blossoms will be burned off and they won't fruit. He says they will fruit otherwise. Everything we bought is self-pollinating, so I don't know if it would help if I used a tiny paintbrush to spread the pollen or not. I saw in the KMart circular in today's Sunday Washington Post that Martha Stewart has ventured into the gardening sphere, and is hyping heirloom vegetables! It had a picture of Martha holding what looks like a Brandywine tomato, sort of large and lumpy-looking.

To: Crocodile who wrote (876)	4/6/2000 4:48:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3495

I finally got around to planting flats of herb seeds, and tomatoes, this past week. No excuse for being so late, especially because it's been so warm most of the time. I should probably have started a month ago. But, on the bright side, my cherry trees all have leaves, except for the bare root trees we planted last week, which have leaf-buds that are within days of bursting forth, and some of the cherries have flowers, which smell like fresh cherries. We have all the trees planted but the two pear trees and a Brown Turkey fig that looked so vigorous I couldn't pass it up, even though we planted two fig whips last fall. Maybe it's a good thing I got it, the fig whips still don't have leaves, and I am starting to wonder if they will. They made leaf-buds and then stopped. The pawpaws have teeny-tiny leaves the size of mouse ears.