lochem
Brand New Baby
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Post by lochem on Dec 5, 2009 14:30:09 GMT -5
Couldn't wait to get here - so nice to see you. This will do nicely. Thank you. Waiting to hear from all the others.
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jeana
Elementary School
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Post by jeana on Dec 5, 2009 14:35:17 GMT -5
That must REALLY be stout. Is it hermetically sealed? When you do a coldframe, seriously, shell out for the auto-openers. Those things turn into Easy Bake ovens in a heart beat. And if you can get power to it, you can put a clamp light in it when it's going to be too cold for its inhabitants.
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acg
Brand New Baby
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Post by acg on Dec 5, 2009 14:35:42 GMT -5
This is much better. I like the ability to quote. Even the old OTF didn't have that.
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karen
Kindergardener
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Post by karen on Dec 5, 2009 14:39:16 GMT -5
Oh, there will definitely be auto-openers. And there's power on that outside corner, as well as water. I figure it will be mainly for things that are cold hardy here but don't like to be wet in the winter, like agaves and some of the bulbs from winter dry climates.
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jeana
Elementary School
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Post by jeana on Dec 5, 2009 14:43:15 GMT -5
As long as we have a place to play that doesn't have 100 members, it's not a problem. Maybe we'll figure out how to link posts better.
Hope you're doing better today.
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jeana
Elementary School
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Post by jeana on Dec 5, 2009 14:47:36 GMT -5
Oops, I was addressing to Marian, but am still not paying attention to the fact that I need to mention names.
Great to see people showing up. Pull up a chair and pour a cold one.
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jeana
Elementary School
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Post by jeana on Dec 5, 2009 14:51:46 GMT -5
Cold frames without openers are a constant challenge. Maybe "trial" is a better word. Don't skimp on the size. You have alot of stuff that likes the dry, cool winter and it's amazing at how quickly you can fill one up. Also, those stupid pokey things will take pot shots at you when you're putting things in and taking them out, so you have to plan on giving them more room than their pot footprint.
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Post by southernsoil on Dec 5, 2009 15:58:15 GMT -5
Just a quick hello my friends. Glad to be here. We got 4 inches of rain last nite and today and that is on top of 20 inches from last month. Might need to use the pontoon boat to hang Christmas lights!
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Post by southernsoil on Dec 5, 2009 16:01:13 GMT -5
Noticed that I am a Brown Thumb. Hah! I am a Muddy Thumb.
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debio
Elementary School
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Post by debio on Dec 5, 2009 16:11:15 GMT -5
Jeana, I did make it and managed to figure out how to start a new thread a while ago. I was proud! Thanks to God for clarifying the thumb thing and the karma. This is good!
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Post by roxanna on Dec 5, 2009 17:50:10 GMT -5
ohhh, halleluliah! i'm here! with all of you!! i'm doing the giddy happy dance as i type (i'm ambidextrous as well as coordinated, lol). i was about to bust without my several-times-daily fix (and just love that we are SproutOff once again, too). not good for my blood pressure -- i feel so much better already, and my DH will be thrilled not to have to listen to me gripe.
it was truly a black day when the Taunton folks got things so messed up. i love this new place.
thanks, jeana, for sending me the map to the new playhouse, and thanks to ann as well for worrying on my behalf that i'd be left behind. i'm so happy to be here and see so many familiar names!
Christmas lights shining thru the new snow (2"-4" more tonight, they say), three batches of cookie dough waiting to be baked, a naked tree in the living room waiting for me to fling festive fripperies upon it -- and a new playhouse! ahhhhh.... life is good.
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karen
Kindergardener
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Post by karen on Dec 5, 2009 17:59:42 GMT -5
What is it about snow that makes people cook/bake? Probably a good thing we don't get more of the stuff here in NC. One snowy winter I lived next to a couple of chefs and there were lots and lots of mashed potatoes that year.
Today I had to stop by my local garden center. Don't ask me why, the car just went that way. They had Cephalotaxus in small pots and I was in heaven. I hate digging big holes. Got two C. harringtonia 'Fastigiata' for 7.99 ea and two ornamental kale. Does anybody else have the same trouble I do with those every year? I always want one of each.
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jeana
Elementary School
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Post by jeana on Dec 5, 2009 18:45:13 GMT -5
Yea - so many new kids to play with!!
Wow - 4" of rain in one place and 4" of snow in another. Here, I'm freezing my tats off. It always works that way...my box from Brent and Becky's showed up late in the afternoon of the very last reasonable weather day. Since then, it hasn't gotten above 45* and isn't supposed to for at least a week. I know good and well that if I go out and plant them in the cold, it'll warm up and be nice out about two days later. Gripe, gripe, gripe.
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debio
Elementary School
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Post by debio on Dec 5, 2009 19:19:08 GMT -5
Jeana and all- We have snow, and it has been snowing off and on for several days. It was 18* a little while ago. There can be no hole digging when the dirt iz froze!
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jeana
Elementary School
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Post by jeana on Dec 5, 2009 20:19:06 GMT -5
I kinda miss the snow - it reminds you that is really is winter. Here, so many people have fescue lawns, so you look out the window and see green grass in the winter. It seems like it's nice out till you step out the door. ACK!! Not nice at all. I'm going to have to bite the bullet and bundle up and go plant those bulbs.
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