I haven’t done much planting from seeds for years, but I ordered lights so I could start things inside. Unfortunately most of the seeds I wanted from my favorite online source were long since sold out. I dug through my fridge and found a bunch of lettuce mixes. Amusingly the oldest ones (from 20005!!!) have sprouted first. I only had a few tomato seeds, they weren’t dated, but probably very old. So I am hoping some local nurseries are open or that someone on line has good heirloom tomatoes. I don’t have enough sun in my garden for tomatoes to do very well, so in recent years I’ve just gotten them from the farmer’s market, but who knows what will happen this year.
Still no signs of life from the cherry tomato halves I stuck int he pots (other than the holes dug by the critters) so tonight i took several seeds out of the tomato I had in my caprese salad tonight and put them on a paper towel to dry. Probably should have spread them bout more but I still have more tomatoes int he house, so we shall see…
UGH. Winter’s come back to Colorado. Daytime highs in the very low 20s… overnight maybe 14. Night time temps will remain under 30 till the end of the week! There go my roses. And most of my buds. No gardening for a week at the earliest. I am miffed and have been whining.
I hear you! So glad the only things planted are onions and snap peas. I got a carrot seed tape in the mail today so I’ll plant carrots once it gets back into the 60s. (I am not mucking about in wet soil when it’s 45 degrees!)
OMG Colorado!!
It is quite nice here during the day, but the evenings and nights are still cool (as low as upper thirties). I started the seeds I got at Flower World: picking cucumbers, zucchini, yellow pear tomatoes, and heirloom tomato called Black Krym (it is not black but close to it!). Lettuce is still waiting for its turn to go into dirt. I need to find the eggplant that I used to grow on the deck a while back.
I’ve been growing Black Krim tomatoes for a several years now. They are fussy to grow, but, boy, they are delicious. One of the best tasting tomatoes I’ve ever had. I give away tomatoes to my neighbors and friends, but the Black Krims are the one I never share!
I’ve got Sungold, Black Cherry and Brandywine tomatoes started my kitchen counter under plant lights.
We are getting snow overnight. 2”-5”. The wet kind. I’m at a lower elevation so hopefully will be on the lower end and mainly go the grass. Not even going to be below freezing, which I’m happy about because all the flowering trees and shrubs are filled with buds.
^^^ @emilybee that was our forecast for today. 3-5 inches. The bad news: it snowed all day - started about 7:30am and didn’t stop until 5 or 6 pm. The good news: while it accumulated some on the grass, over time it seemed to melt in and there is probably only an inch on the ground, none on the drives/roads. And areas under trees, bushes, etc are green. I think our buds and plants are ok - the temp really stayed around 34-36.
OMG I feel your pain all of you with the inches of S stuff!!!
@WayOutWestMom - we discovered BK tomato a couple of years ago. Mine grew huuuuge fruit. I had to prop them up in a serious way! Yes, they were delicious. The little seedlings are already out. 
Next to my plumeria “trees” on the kitchen counter facing south. The plumerias are going to bloom soon! I am lucky the skywall provides a perfect “habitat” for my indoor garden.
I went out to the pharmacy to pick up a prescription and drove by Lowes. OMG! It was insane! More cars in the parking lot than on a non-stay-at-home nice weather spring Saturday. Not parking spot to be found. I had thought about stopping but just kept on driving past.
I wrestled the deer fencing up around one raised bed. Placed the 6 ft fence posts in the others. Transplanted lettuce seedlings into indoor window planters. Transplanted the herbs I’d started under grow lights into another indoor window planter. (Oregano, basil, thyme–I keep starting dill but no matter what it just sprouts then dies…I have no idea why.)
Tomorrow I’ll plant seeds for zucchini, pole beans and cucumbers. My tomato seedlings are doing well, but they’re still too small to survive the transplant shock. I had ordered some live tomato plants from Burpee in December–they’re supposed to arrive by end of day Friday. Since according to tracking they were packed last Friday, I wonder what kind of shape they’ll be in.
Fingers crossed for those live tomatoes!
I finally found seeds of Fairy Tale eggplant. They are on the way here from an Amazon seller I have never used. Fingers crossed they will germinate. Every other retailer was sold out! It is a plant variety with sentimental value for me.
Gardening season is officially ON chez moi. The tomatoes, in their wall-o-water teepees, are in. The giant arbovitae has been planted. (At 13 inches hardly a giant yet but hope springs eternal for this gardener.) And there are lively, bright splashes all around my front door, thanks to the cheerful smiling faces of my yellow pansies.
Give me gardening weather (and an unlimited budget) and I can happily stay-at-home indefinitely!
No signs of life in any of my posts where I stuck the tomato seeds. Will give it a little more time before trying to get some live plants.
Do any of you just let your tomatoes rot back into the ground? That’s how mine come back year after year. For some reason, I’ve had tomatoes for much of the year - that’s definitely a first for me!
Right now, I have swiss chard that refuses to stop producing and I’m getting ready to plant yellow crook neck squash, eggplant, please, various lettuces, cucumber etc
I’ve been trying to secure the purchase of an Eden Climbing rose. I saw them a month ago in all the usual catalogs but wanted to do a little research before I committed. Now that I finally made my decision they are all sold out. I’ve called a couple of nurseries but they are only having other types arrive in a couple of weeks. That will teach me!
Has anyone ever grown one or can speak of climbing roses in general?
I’m itching to plant some shrubs but the nursery only has huge ones that are not in my budget. I’m hoping they will get another shipment soon of smaller ones.
Meanwhile my daffodils and tulips are finally starting to bloom and the mulch went down yesterday.
This thread gives me much joy.
The last climbing rose I bought turned out NOT to be one. Just a non-climbing rose! I was so disappointed!
Beautiful day here so I work in my gardens - mostly cutting down dead stalks in my hydrangeas. But now I’m sneezing from being outside so long. Might as well take the dogs now since I’m already exposed to all the pollen.
Sunday night into Monday possibly some snow, but mostly in higher elevations- still, it will be a very cold rain where I am. 
I’m excited to see spring: wee tiny bulbs have passed, a few daffodils remain in shady spots, my tulips in shady spots are just blooming whilst Iris are already starting in sunny spots, April seems early for Iris. Yet, others I know are way past tulips in their sunny yards.
I bought an apple blossom clematis as a splurge, it should cover a boring fence in time. My big splurge was a new peony, I have to learn how to propagate those.
I am aiming for a hydrangea hedge along one fence and I have a HUGE happy hydrangea that easily lays down branches and puts down roots, I harvested a plant 5’ tall, moved it to a large pot and cut in back to work on shape and root ball for a year or so. I also have 4 hydrangea branches I harvested from a pretty plant last summer, three have itty bitty roots and one has a blumb maybe 1-2" long. Slow going! I am also sending hydrangea starts to my daughter so that is a great project. I have one in particular I want to get going, but none that I buried last fall took with roots, ah, well, I’ll try again.
I’ve propagated, successfully, several Russian Sage so will try that again this spring and also try Mock Orange and Native Currant, it’s a slow process, but it’s rewarding.
@Empireapple how have you had your best success dividing clematis? Anyone succeeded at propagating Peonies?
I have a ton of pots and made a socially safe & distant trek to the local nursery, thinking to support local business, I was not the only one with that idea, but they are so spread out it was not difficult to avoid people. I would say 2/3 of what I bought is perennials. I, too, hope to avoid spending so much on annuals.
My snapdragons have been overwintering for several years, but this year it looks like they did not make it. I’m in zone 8a.
Herb wise, rosemary, thyme, oregano, sage, and parsley are happy. Green onions so-so. Fruit wise, blueberry has flowers, raspberries are insanely happy, looks like the boysenberry I got from another gardener has survived, the current bush is still dormant.
@jym626 one year in SoCal, my dogs tore up the trash from a local taco place, a short time later, we had tomatoes growing there in the yard.