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WestMichRad

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4. I've started several crops indoors:
Mon Mar 3, 2025, 07:07 PM
Mar 2025

Basils, sweet and hot peppers, some lettuces (I grow several heirloom varieties), geraniums, tatsoi. Also several species of native wildflowers just went onto warming mats today after finishing their cold moist stratification.
Next week I’ll start the first of our peas outdoors, if the top few inches of soil isn’t still frozen. (We still have a bit of snow on the ground, mostly in shady spots or where it was piled up.)
Our average last frost date is in early May here in SW lower Michigan, so I’m waiting another week or so before starting all of my tomatoes (about 20 varieties).

It’s nice to start playing in the dirt again!

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I only do herbs out on my patio and then dry them for winter's use. Callalily Mar 2025 #1
Having your own dried herbs is so nice for winter use! Diamond_Dog Mar 2025 #6
Tomatoes! QED Mar 2025 #2
Sounds great! Diamond_Dog Mar 2025 #7
I love the yellow pears! QED Mar 2025 #10
Wow, awesome photo! Diamond_Dog Mar 2025 #12
I've lived here over 20 years and hadn't seen them until last summer. QED Mar 2025 #15
I usually buy starter plants but I read this article on garbage gardening questionseverything Mar 2025 #3
Don't apologize! It's so cathartic to plan and plant a vegetable garden Diamond_Dog Mar 2025 #8
I've started several crops indoors: WestMichRad Mar 2025 #4
NE Ohio here. Diamond_Dog Mar 2025 #9
Traditionally it's about May 15 here, WestMichRad Mar 2025 #11
Thanks, WestMichRad! Diamond_Dog Mar 2025 #13
tomatoes, peppers, basil, potatoes. The Wizard Mar 2025 #5
Don't you just love fresh basil? Especially with home grown tomatoes. Diamond_Dog Mar 2025 #14
I have regular basil and The Wizard Mar 2025 #17
This message was self-deleted by its author Figarosmom Mar 2025 #16
I'm managing to keep my seedlings alive. MissB Mar 2025 #18
Wow, sounds like you will have quite a garden this summer MissB! Diamond_Dog Mar 2025 #19
Good luck to your sister and her surgery! MissB Mar 2025 #20
Thanks, MissB. That's good to know! Diamond_Dog Mar 2025 #21
I was shocked by how much I didn't know? MissB Mar 2025 #22
I can only stay 5 days Diamond_Dog Mar 2025 #23
started in February onethatcares Mar 2025 #24
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