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Geez, has it really been almost 3 months...
Feb 11, 2008 | 10:33 PM PST

Geez, has it really been almost 3 months since I last blogged???? Life gets busy, I suppose, but mostly, it being winter, I haven't got a whole lot to blog about garden wise...

So, I thought it was time for another entry, and while reviewing my previous blog entries, I noticed an odd tag on my last post.  One I didn't put there, for a website that I hadn't heard of before.  I won't name the site, why give 'em free advertising??  I removed the tag, but I didn't think any one else could add a tag someone's blog entries.  Odd.  I wonder how many other people had something like that?  I hope nobody who read my blog visited that website...

Anyway, since it is winter, and my vegetable garden, rain garden, flower beds and yard are all covered in snow (heck, all of Michigan is covered in snow) and the temps have been in the single digits, I have not even attempted to do anything outside.  Besides shoveling snow, that is.  And that, only cuz I have too, if I still want to get my mail.  And I DO want to get my mail, because I have been busy looking at all those nice seed catalogs, and placed a couple orders.  One of them came today.! Now I need to get out the seed starting stuff, check my calendar, and see when I can start playing with my new seeds.

I haven't been entirely idle all winter.  Besides amusing myself with seed catalogs, I have a couple of experiments going.  When we cleared the vegetable garden last fall, I had one huge sweet potato plant that I potted up and draped over my stair railing.  I am happy to report that it is still alive, although the large original leaves all fell off when I first brought it in, and the leaves that replaced them are much smaller.  So it doesn't look as lush and full as I had hoped it would.  If nothing else, I can use portions of it for cuttings when it is time to plant some in the garden. 

While putting in the rain garden last fall, I dug up some stray bulbs.  I imagine the squirrels had buried them, but where they got them, only they and God knows!  I planted them in pots and put them in my SW facing baywindow.  They sprouted, but haven't bloomed.  They resemble chives, but they don't have an oniony smell, so I don't think that is what they are.  Maybe they will bloom soon, and then I'll have a better idea.  Whatever they are, I hope they aren't poisonous, because the brat cats nibbled on them a bit. 

It's hard to throw out an avocado pit, they are such an inviting growing opportunity.  So the last time we had some, of course I had to put them in water (2 of them).  One died, and one is growing on my window sill over my kitchen sink.  It is about 10 inches tall, and has 4 tiny leaves.  So now it's time to get a pot for it.  Of course, it will stay in the house, avocados don't grow outdoors in Michigan.  I had tried this in the past, and managed to keep a small avocado tree alive for about a year before it finally died.  That one was never very healthy.  I hope I do better this time....