Wednesday!
As you can see by Itzl's concerned look, this group is for us to check in at to let people know we are alive, doing OK, and not affected by such things as heat, blizzards, floods, wild fires, hurricanes, tornadoes, power outages, or other such things that could keep us off DKos. It's also so we can find other Kossacks nearby for in-person checks when other methods of communication fail - a buddy system. Members come here to check in. If you're not here, or anywhere else on DKos, and there are adverse conditions in your area (floods, heatwaves, hurricanes, etc.), we and your buddy are going to check up on you. If you are going to be away from your computer for a day or a week, let us know here. We care!
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So it's mid-December and time to start thinking of the spring garden even as the winter garden is reaching it's peak.
I like living in a four season gardening zone. Fall and winter are for cabbage, kale, beets, broccoli, chard, carrots, cauliflower, peas, kohlrabi, lettuces. Spring is dandelion greens, violets, redbuds, asparagus, fiddleheads, scapes, scallions, nettles, pea greens, radishes, carrots, strawberries, lettuces. Summer is tomatoes, peas, beans, raspberries, blackberries, pineberries...
Pineberries.
Have you had a pineberry?
I hope to expand my pineberry bed this year. The birds and doodlebugs don't eat the pineberries the way they do strawberries. I lost 2 beds to doodlebugs. I always thought doodlebugs (aka pill bugs, rollie-polies) only ate compost and dead organic matter, but they eat anything, really.
Garden catalogs are beginning to arrive...