Your pictures are adorable!!! Congratulations!
May I ask how did you get them into the post? Where do I click?

Thanks
Audrey

Okay, none of my hollyhocks have even started to regrow this year. I know that at least one is dead. I hope they didn't all kick the bucket. I love those flowers.

Shasta,

Just finished moving some of my containers and took a bit of a walk 1/2 way around the property. Can't get to the back or the south side (which faces north) since there are still some ice banks leftover. But they are disappearing fast!!

Those sprouts are CUTE, and the Hollyhocks look so healthy. Bravo! You are off to a great gardening year. :O)

Oh those sprouts look so happy! I keep checking mine but still, just the hollyhocks - and they are more the size of your jug lettuce sprouts than your holllyhocks from the ground!

Cute Hollyhocks.
I hope mine come back this season.
Mary

Congrats, Shasta! I had a wonderful surprise this morning, too!

I found lettuce, broccoli, kale, bachelor buttons, and polka dot mix corn flowers sprouting.

Woo hoo! Spring is coming to Wisconsin, and I found a couple of holly hocks I ws'd last year, too. I hope they bloom. :)

cheers,

Nora Belle

Audrey, I put my two cents in your other post about the pictures, I hope it helps. My hollyhocks didn't bloom last year as a matter of fact I think they only got a foot tall. Momma left them in the jug too long! Actually I left them all in the jugs too long. Anyhow, my beds are full of plastic spoons so I could remember where I put everything! I finally did find some mini blinds and they do work well and are very cheap (50 cents at a second hand shop). My only question is when planting veggies in the jugs and using the blinds is the plastic OK or will the chemicals from the blinds go into the veggies? Maybe I should use popsicle sticks for the veggies instead. I hope you guys don't think I'm way out there, LOL. Don gave me some lilly seeds last season and they came up but the frost got them when they bloomed, I'm really anxious to see them this year, I can't remember what they are called but it wasn't your normal lilly-maybe he'll come along and remind me ;)

Awesome! those are some really cute sprouts!!!

Karen

Audrey, I learned how to post pictures at the link i put below. I use photobucket and html code and paste in the message.

http://faq.gardenweb.com/faq/lists/neweng/2007014019017474.html

Karen

Here is a link that might be useful: http://faq.gardenweb.com/faq/lists/neweng/2007014019017474.html

Shasta - I planted hollyhocks this year too...from what I understand they are biennials, and don't bloom the first year...so I don't think you hurt them at all by leaving them in the jug for a while! :)

Let us know where you are....NE Ohio.. Here in Columbus inquiring minds want to know.

Hollyhocks are such a special flower---don't they just make you think of the perfect old fashioned garden, swaying with their pretty flowers above the other blooms? Your sprouts look bright and spunky!! Ready soon to get their little feet settled down in the earth. Congrats!!

I watered them yesterday (from the top) and thought, OH NO!
So I hope I didn't ruin anything. I looked at last years notes and most all was up by the end of April so I still have time. Bakemom I'm near Chardon, are you familiar with the area? It's the snow belt capital, LOL.
Someone here gave me the hollyhock seeds when I was a newbie so hopefully I'll have some nice bloomers this year :)
Quite a few of my 2007 ws flowers are coming up, only way I know is I never did cut the dead stuff off and I won't until you can really see them good cause DH will go walking over over them! I have iris's poking out everywhere, there is one in particular I received at the swap in Augusta last year and I can't wait to see it in bloom, the person that had these attached a nice photo to the bag, they were a deep purple (almost black) with a dark orange on the inside.
I really haven't done anything the last week cause I have a bug and I'm almost feeling better, so thanks to all of the compliments on my sprouts :)