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Eastern Pennsylvania

How does everyone get through this?
I doubt I am the only one. It’s finally March, and I was thinking about growing peas just to grow something. I don’t even like peas. I hate peas. This is my first season dealing with the winter hump. Normally I am thinking about skiing. Now I am thinking about pumpkins. My friends and family can’t figure out why I’ve been talking about pumpkins in February. Thank the Good Lord for you guys. It’s like staring at a clock and trying to see the minute hand moving, only in a much longer calendar form. I have my seeds, I have my soil in good shape, my samples are out. Boily is done…what am I supposed to do now? I wish I was going to a seminar, but that would just get me fired up even more. I have to keep myself from starting any of my seeds now and ruining them. Plus I been talking a lot of S###. I’m ready to see if I can back it up.

3/1/2006 11:03:48 AM

Colorado

LOL peas. 74 degrees in Denver yesterday. Over 300” inches of snow on top of the mountain at Breckenridge ski area, best snow in 20 years and all I can think about is pumpkins. Wife and kids know I’m nuts. ---- Kirk

3/1/2006 11:35:54 AM

Menomonie, WI ([email protected])

ohhh this is the season were you get hit with Post Partumn Depression...what fun...Have you split a fruit growing 25lbs a day yet? Thats even more fun...

3/1/2006 11:37:53 AM

C N Y

post-part 'em depression

is that what Moses felt after
parting the Red Sea???

lol

"Boily is done"--LOL!
yeahhhhh, that pretty much spells the end of the growing season for the usual, out-of-the-US suspects.
kinda like the State Fair for me, it means summer is over!
very funny post up there that sums it all up!
if you have any videos of weighoffs or seminars,
watch them....there goes that much more time toward ending the winter doldrums. i myself am disappointed that i have not yet computerized my seed book. if i did it all at once,
i would work right through pollination! anyway, plant something you love, for practice; i have seen springtime
starter-pots displays already at K-Mart, a good sign in any
event! build a few greenhouse frames, like i should be
plastic-covering mine now...just a suggestion. keep calm! EG

3/1/2006 12:41:49 PM

Antigonish,Nova Scotia,Canada

welcome to the club....just got back from Church (Ash Wednesday service)...and there I was day-dreaming again about gardening and giant pumpkins and squash!!!!...LOL....Hope I don't get punished for dropping a little prayer for everyone's season!....all the best,
Bill

3/1/2006 12:53:57 PM

Ray, North Dakota

20 degrees ne north dakota today, big snow storm coming. A kid being born tomorrow morning....pumpkins are in the back of my mind right now, but not too far. Lots of snow here, but end of next week sounds like the temps will be creeping up. I gotta get my farmers seeding before I can think of myself too. lol

3/1/2006 12:54:42 PM

Ft. Branch, IN ([email protected])

"A kid being born tomorrow morning"...yours or just a kid in general? lol

Congrats Herbie!

3/1/2006 1:17:29 PM

C N Y

ha ha hah ha

3/1/2006 1:44:30 PM

Eastern Pennsylvania

sure herbie you're right- seems like you hardly think about pumpkins at all. LOL. Congrats!

good points I do have some greenhouse huts to build. It's nice knowing the people who run the biggest wholesale nursery in the mid-atlantic. Got my plastic for free... enough to cover a 200 footer. I need to buy Land o Giants...

I can't wait to have one split at 25lb per day- just as long as all 5 of them don't!

3/1/2006 2:09:40 PM

Pocatello ([email protected])

The Joel Holland videos is one of the ways I get through winter. I think I watch the video 10 to 12 times. Hey, I don't drink, I gotta do something!

Post-pumpkin depression is what I get in November.
Pre-pumkin anticipation starts shortly thereafter. Pre-pumpkin anticipation is longer and harder to get through. The best way is with videos, notebook paper full of hoop-house plans, seed lists, fertilization strategies, etc. Then late April comes, things get busy, and you don't have time to finish all the things you wanted to do.......

3/1/2006 3:14:52 PM

Pocatello ([email protected])

Oh by the way... I grow garlic. The good thing about this is you can plant it in the fall. It gives you something to do while everything else is dying away. Right now, early March, is the time they usually start coming up.

http://cliffwarren.byethost5.com/

3/1/2006 3:20:23 PM

Mn

I seem to not get this Hump. "knock on wood" I just think about the upcoming year and talk to you guys and time flies by.

3/1/2006 8:29:08 PM

Norton, MA

I need a billion piece puzzle, or a 5 lb. sleeping pill. For God sake the least they could do is give me some HOMEWORK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh no, I take that back, no, NO, NOOOOOOOOOOO! I started tomatoes, cukes, cantaloupes, onions, and beans LAST WEEKEND! I'm done for. Maybe I should take up oragami? Chainsaw carving? School, naa, not school! It's March AleX, cool down bud, few weeks and the groung'll be thawed. AleX Noel.

3/1/2006 8:52:01 PM

Minnesota([email protected])

Do you think most of the people who access this site very frequenly, have an addictive personality?

3/1/2006 9:21:43 PM

Ca

You nut! You should be locked up in a Greenhouse full of Pumpkin plants, Manure Tea and Agro K ASP!

3/1/2006 9:31:59 PM

Joliet, IL

it got up to 50 degrees today here in Illinois, and i am on a construction site testing a load of concrete, and then i said to the driver, "did you see that?" and he said "what?" i said, "a fricken bee just flew by." actually it was a yellow jacket, but we both said we can't wait for spring. i always take notice of the first bug i see as a sign that it is getting closer to that time.

all i can say is thank God for march madness and college basketball.

3/1/2006 11:25:58 PM

Follansbee, Wv

I spend most of my time reading old diaries and threads, researching problems people have ran into in the past and what they did as well as the outcome. I also spend some time reading about soil biology and how plants use nutrients. In conjunction with that I study soil components, ie...micros and macros, OM, CEC, pH and how they interact. Winter is the best time to do these things. Use this time to expand your overall knowledge base.

3/2/2006 6:51:58 AM

Eastern Pennsylvania

HA! I Cut down a big white pine right in the front yard the other week, and I left the stump at about 4 feet tall. Then I took the chainsaw and carved a huge giant pumpkin face in it. It's still there.

Doug- yes. I am afraid to go to Vegas if that tells you anything.

3/2/2006 10:15:42 AM

Mocksville, NC

were all nuts lol. hang in there Frogs are chirping here!

3/2/2006 10:40:21 AM

San Luis Obispo, Ca.

Hey i work with "nuts" so if you can't beat'em join'em.

3/2/2006 5:23:42 PM

Grants Pass, Oregon

Rog you said the frogs are chirping there, here they have invaded my pool, time to start cleaning house lol

3/2/2006 6:43:16 PM

Riverton, WY

I went ice fishin' last weekend....While standing there on 20 inches of good solid ice, I don't remember even once getting the urge to plant a seed of any kind.... :-)

3/3/2006 7:52:44 AM