@enhydra lutris This batch was dry at the market and priced low for a quick sell. Cut dry end similar to a flower bouquet and placed in vase. This refreshed the stalks, adding a couple of extra days to cook and nibble a few fresh tips. The base of the stems will be cut off later today for soup and the tops placed back in the vase. The tops will remain fresh and favorable ready to be stir fried tomorrow for dinner. Any stalk with a top removed will remain in the vase until time to make soup.

early planting in one bed and have some overwintered stuff in another. What is your trick with asparagus -- "re-cut the base ..."? Do you cut the bottom of the base and put the whole stalk in the vase, or take the trimming you cut off of the base when peparing it for cooking and re-grow that? I'm making asparagus soup later today

@mhagle Created numerous ideas to try.

This is the 2nd year of attempting to start plants early. Mixed results and ready to try the next batch. Still 5 weeks before setting out cool weather plants, 8-9 until last frost date and warm soil. Been looking at your grow stand system and earthling1's closet.
Good gardening

That's great. It's a vegetable my husband likes so . . . yeah!

I can't watch your videos right now because I am running off a phone hot spot, but will try to do so later.

M - Thursday morning I am carting my child to college, 45 miles from home. F - Sunday is garding time! (and cleaning, laundry, etc.)

I am really having a blast this year putting in the garden. I have never been successful starting seeds until this year. Thanks to my husband who brought home a 72 tray of Jiffy Peat Pots - $6.99 at Walmart. They work great! And thanks to my family who helped me convert my small 7 x 16 greenhouse into a seed starting area. And thanks to rareseeds.com and to all the folks on this site who gave me seed advice! I have tried to heed all of it.

Planted fruit trees in the existing raised beds and am planting back into the round hay bales. Made trellises with rebar and square fencing. Mulching with hay. Planting zinnias around the tomatoes and marigolds by the squash. Short day onions look good. Potatoes growing in bales. This weekend plan to create planters using this method. It combines lasagna plus wicking principals in planters. Husband used tractor to dig a trench that we are filling with dead tree logs for planting nut trees. Half full so far.

[video:https://youtu.be/Fa2-ODOFj6c]

I did a test version of this last year, so I am hopeful.

Wishing everyone a great day!

@Lookout not to open the flowers with the first few warm days in February. I need to get it a companion. Apricots can no longer be shipped to Oregon, so I need to find an instate nursery to visit or order. It still blooms before the pollinators are out, but I could hand pollinate if there was a second tree.

When our forests were over harvested the timber companies headed south. The advatage for the corporations 20 year timber cycle vs 60 and very anti-union. At the moment we are growing houses, commercial districts and outdoor tourism. The area is being loved to death.

Don't like spring weather? Wait 15 minutes.

We've had a cool spring. Everything bloomed early, but the cool temps have caused plants to hold their flowers. Normally the cherries finish their bloom in 2 weeks, but they've held for over a month. We are not past our possible freeze date of April 15. About five years ago, we got a freeze in early April after the trees leafed out. That had never happened in anyone's memory (and I asked 90+ year olds). That was on top of a few years of drought. Then the worms came in a defoliated trees again. I thought the forests were a goner....But the rains returned and the woodlands seem to be on the mend. Our forests are being over-harvested. Mixed deciduous stands replanted in monocultured pines. Change is endemic in the system at many levels.

Happy gardening everyone!

@Nastarana Have some asparagus seed to try and start. Might try some now and save some to try in an outdoor pot over next winter.

snow is just now melting and the ground is beginning to thaw. Winter sown cabbage and lettuce have already sprouted.

BTW, asparagus is a good candidate for winter sowing. The seeds will sprout a bit later than many others, so don't throw out the pots. The first year you get wispy fronds and the second year the fronds grow a bit larger over the summer. That is as far as I have gotten.

Last year I double dug beds in the vegetable garden and dug ditches which were about 1' deep between the beds. When we had a heavy rain in June, the rain filled the ditches instead of soaking the beds. I piled leaves on the beds last fall and will pile compost on top of the leaves this spring.

After March 21 is when I start seeds for tomatoes and peppers, which I start outside in mini greenhouses--that in a nutshell is the winter sowing method.

@smiley7 the column. Almost forgot the pictures. Ran outside at about dusk and captured a shots. If possible would love to see a little of your part of the country and the ski area. Mt Bachelor is less than 50 miles away. Used to be called Bachelor Butte but marketing a ski butte is not as exciting as a Mountain.

The resort developers were concerned that skiing on a butte might be perceived by consumers as "small-time" and so named their resort Mount Bachelor.[3] Over time the popularity of the ski area led to the name Mount Bachelor coming into popular usage, and in a divided decision, the Oregon Geographic Names Board voted to change the name from Bachelor Butte to Mount Bachelor.[2][3]

Sixty here today, but back to freezing tomorrow.
Have a good day, everyone!

@gjohnsit afraid of a response back from their victim. Then might be afraid to sleep at night.

More importantly the citizens may start questioning actions taken by the countries leaders or have empathy for people being bombed.

but genocide by KSA is OK