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Where is everyone?

18 years ago

Where has everyone gone? There seems to be very little activity from Pennsy gardeners.

Check in once and a while!!

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wolfe15136
18 years ago
I'm here. This weekend will be a busy one! I need to clean the leaves out of the ponds! And I need to tie up the shrubbery, clean up under the fruit trees, etc.

I love the cool weather!
katob Z6ish, NE Pa
18 years ago
I'm here. Tile project last week so there's not much else going on. I hope to sneak out this afternoon, enjoy the sun and mow the lawn (mostly to chop the leaves-not the grass).
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I hit the jackpot on Craig's List several years ago. Someone was cleaning out an old dilapidated house and advertised canning jars. Pints, Quarts, Half's. 5, 10, 25 cents each. I sent them a note and told them I'd take all they had no matter how many there were. When they said there were more at the house, I offered to meet them there and they were afraid I'd get hurt so they declined that. They put a bunch in wood crates, fruit boxes, any other cardboard they could find. I think I ended up with over 1000 total for about $145. I gave them $160 for the effort and the wood crates that I didn't expect, and just because... And so they didn't have to give me change. It was so worth it. There are several charity thrift stores locally that sometimes sell them for 25 or 50 cents each. I've quit buying pints and quarts unless they're wide mouth. But I'll buy 4, 8, or 12 ounce for 50 cents or less. There are sometimes Classico jars or actual canning jars at the recycling stations that I'll collect if they're not too busy. Sometimes they have lids. I have also washed jars in the back yard a number of times before running them through the dish washer inside. Rather not have all that dirt end up in my septic tank. I used to not think about that until I started thinking about that. That dirt/mud does not go anywhere once it ends up there. I wash big dirt off of veggies outside as well. Chris
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chescobob
18 years ago
I still check the forum. I painted my garage, finished some last minute landscaping, and I am now planning to put in additional organizing hooks and cabinets in the garage. I have to do some work on my roses and mow the lawn for the final time. Then add winterizer to the lawn, put down some milky spore, and get in the house before it gets really cool.

A bit later, I will spray some young plants with Wiltpruf.
bulldinkie
18 years ago
uh theres no gardening going on...I wish.Im about as ready as Im gonna be for winter in Pa...
pattygrow5
18 years ago
I,ve been busy on seed exchange forum.CHECK IT OUT. Patty
jenny_in_se_pa
18 years ago
I'm still gardening here in Philly. Haven't had our first frost yet. Been busy getting some last minute cuttings of tender perennials and preparing to put the container garden to bed! Have a bunch of new plants out there bought for hummers this year, so it will be interesting to see how they do over winter.
gillian_
18 years ago
I've been gathering up seed for Winter Sowing. It sure helps get through the winter blahs.
We have had a frost here in NW PA but I still have stuff to do outside. I really need to get a mulch cover on some of the beds. Snow is coming!

~Gillian
Pipersville_Carol
18 years ago
I'm here!

Finally got out into the garden last weekend. It felt good to get some weeding done. I've got 30 bags of mulch to spread. And no time to spread it, these dark evenings are a bummer.
naturenut_pa
18 years ago
with this weather, i haven't wanted to be anywhere near the computer!

I've been storing and labelling seed for next year...cutting down annuals and perennials that have given up...mowing the lawn just to mulch the leaves...chopping as much firewood as i can get my hands on...weeding...dividing bulbs...figured one of the wheelbarrows was history, so drilled holes into it and painted it to be used as a planter.

this is normally the time of year when i run around in the woods, freeing saplings from honeysuckle, or cutting down standing dead wood for firewood, because there is nothing else to do.
this year has been so weird: 2 floods, then drought, then going straight from summer to winter.
witsend22
18 years ago
still haven't found time to get my bulbs in the ground yet. might just make one massive planting and be done with it.
Pipersville_Carol
18 years ago
I agree, this has been a strange year. I feel like we're in the dead of winter all of a sudden. The forecast is calling for a low of 19 tomorrow night. Brrr.

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