I still feel like I'm behind, though. Probably mostly because I SERIOUSLY cut back on my container count this year. I might have 40-50 perennials out there, and another 24 maybe in other stuff. My usual count is somewhere between 200-400+ I want to do a sale, but iffy on whether or not to do it; people are finicky...I did "ok" last year, but ignorant people snubbed their noses at the small (but full) containers of seedlings (3.50 per jug with up to hundreds of seedlings in it). Ok, so what should I do then? Have my sale in July when everyone's nursery plants are starting to fail miserably? Should I charge 10x as much in July as I would have in May/June in the seedling stage and charge them 3.50 for ONE rud or ONE petunia? (rolleyes). I really don't WANT to babysit containers until July...it's bad enough that I might not get all of my OWN planted out by then, but to have to make SURE that containers don't die...well, mid-July I'm off on other ventures...and when they're MINE..."I'll get to it, or I won't" and either way works. My veggie patch is still under construction (I build borderless raised beds); my onions will be here any day now... I feel like having ordered my toms so late that even a week in April is a lot of wasted germination time. I have mosaic projects not started or finished that I've committed myself to (another forum)...I just feel like I'm not getting anything done and time's a wastin' Maybe I'm just usually "early" and have everything out by now and this "lateness" that I'm feeling really isn't at all.

I'm still waiting on a lot of stuff. But I'm quite a ways farther north and we are several weeks behind usual temp wise. So today, I finally went topless on a few containers that had sprouts growing out the tops :) I am very happy with my results so far. I've had a few single hollyhock sprouts, lots of red poppies and several sweet peas. All of which were from very old seed (8+ years old). I messed up marking my annual ws containers though. Marked them with numbers right on the jug with sharpie and the numbers have all faded. Woops! Oh well, at least they are all annuals so I'll just use them to fill in wherever in my perennial beds anyways. Live and learn. Sharpie on the duct tape seemed to work pretty well for my perennial containers. Only have one of 80 that the duct tape has fallen off. I'm sure once I start moving some things around I'll find that label too :) I think I have about 30-40% germination rate so far. It's been a rather cool spring here so I'm still optomistic I'll get a lot more sprouts over the coming weeks. I haven't planted anything out yet, still cleaning up the gardens and mulching. Since it has been so cool I'm not in a big hurry yet either. I've always got gobbs of potted plants waiting for a home up by my greenhouse anyways :)

I'm 2/3 set....well, sort of. I'm still working on the hand made item, but I found the cookbook yesterday. Like many of you, I had to get 2 of them, one for myself and one for my partner. I'm still puzzling over the local item. I've found a nice locally produce item, but I'm not sure about shipping it. I'm going to do some more research. I've thought of other things, but Texas is a big state, and I'm not sure if the other side of Texas counts as local. Unfortunately, where I live the primary locally produced products are McMansions. I know I can spend as much as I want, but I'm NOT spending THAT much! LOL. Besides, that would definately be hard to ship! Sally

I got it immediately. DH didn't get it at all. That's because if I send him to the store and say I want six lemons, he'll come home with three. I know now, if I want three lemons, I ask for six. Never fails, he'll come home with three which is what I wanted. Littlebug, Laughed at the bunch of onions even though it would never happen here. Paula, I've seen that video many times and never tire of it. It's hilarious.