6 Mar '08 2:10 pm Howdy to everyone, its' been quite a while since I posted here and I hope you are all in good form! I am about to read through all the garden threads I have missed, but before I do I thought I would ask if anyone has had any out of season garden happenings?
There must be some March Madness going on...
I was out weeding in the garden this morning (before the wicked humidity gets up) and there was the most surprising sight... sprouting daffs! OH my goodness!It is still summer here, isn't it? At the very least it can only just have squeaked into autumn
I'm wondering if it is because we have had a lot of rain over the last few weeks after a prolonged dry spell? March is usually our month to start planting bulbs for spring ...
7 Mar '08 6:17 am Last year we had a pumpkin that grew upside down and when I pulled it out and planted it the right way around, the poor thing passed away. Very strange to see. Sorry I can't find a pic right now. I'll have to look in my file storage.
Christopher
Mark
Home gardener & plant fetishist
Berkeley, California, USA
Nothing to report yet this year, Pumpkin.
7 Mar '08 12:16 pm Last year, during an unusually long warm spell in winter, my poor confused Fuji apple flowered and set some fruit. It went on to do so more pronouncedly at the right time too so nothing was lost. Heck, I need to bonk more apples off than I do for the good of the tree anyway. My inner miser comes out when it comes to thinning perfectly good fruit.
pumpkin
compost executive
Auckland
8 Mar '08 7:19 am Gotta love nature huh GN! She has her quirks too Speaking of growing strangely... as I have been weeding along in the veg garden, I came across about a million stray parsnip seedlings (they and the carrots self-seed everywhere ) and one of them had germinated between the brick paving. The bricks are laid in sand and have about 1/8" between them and this one opportunist little fella had pushed the bricks apart to about 1/4" and had grown to about 3" wide! Nutty! Would have been interesting to peel!
Mark, I think most gardeners have that same streak I can't for the life of me cut off healthy buds to encourage bigger blooms
Speaking of growing strangely... as I have been weeding along in the veg garden, I came across about a million stray parsnip seedlings (they and the carrots self-seed everywhere 
) and one of them had germinated between the brick paving. The bricks are laid in sand and have about 1/8" between them and this one opportunist little fella had pushed the bricks apart to about 1/4" and had grown to about 3" wide! 
Nutty! Would have been interesting to peel!
