-=> Quoting Michele Mauro to Marilyn Boissoneault <=-
MM> Well, it looks like pepper and tomatoes then! I'm starting my tomato
MM> seeds  this weekend so I can get them out early - is that right for
MM> here? 
Yes it's the right time to start tomatoes and peppers. I'm ready
to start mine too.  I like to get those in the ground by the
first of March, so I'd better get going!
MM> Well, it's Melting Sugar that I planted last weekend, so I guess we'll
MM> find  out if I like them!  Are the peas themselves also edible?
MM> Hubby likes  peas, I like pods - I'm hoping for a dual harvest on these
MM> things. 
I only grew snow peas once, and that was years ago, but my garden
books say if you wait too long to harvest the pods you can shell
them like regular peas and cook the peas.  So I guess that means
they're edible! 
MM> In New Mexico, there was no grass to get clippings from.  I used
MM> bark  mulch - the weight would help to keep most of the topsoil from
MM> blowing  away. We got 30-60mph winds for about a month in the spring
MM> (day after day  after day of wind - ugh) - that would either blow away
MM> the good soil I'd  been cultivating, or cover it with a few inches of
MM> sand every year.   It was depressing to garden in the desert.
Wow! that sounds worse than gardening here in beach sand! I
always think of Florida as being pretty windy, but guess not so
bad after all.
MM> Oh... I have a lawn question - it looks like whatever grass is grown
MM> in our  neighborhood dies back every winter (ours along with everyone
MM> else's)...  when does it start "waking up" and becoming green again? We
MM> need to reseed  some areas that were weedy during the summer and died
MM> back completely now -  when should we do that?
I'm not sure I know too much about lawns.   My lawn usually
pretty much stays halfway green all winter, unless we have a bad
freeze.  But it does usually start waking up about the time the
weather begins to warm, not too long from now really, maybe by
the end of the month.  I think you'll have to find out what kind
of grass you have though. Some of our grasses you can't start
from seed, like St. Augustine.  Sorry I'm not more help on that.
Marilyn
... Gone Chopin.  Bach in a minuet.
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