looks good y'all

transplanted some seedlings & planted some onions today.

Little help here. I have a little portable greenhouse and have about 60 jiffy pots of seeds planted with lettuce, green onions, japs, other peppers, cilantro, beans, tomatoes and other stuff I can't even remember! Question is for the lettuce, they just sprouted after 5 days in the greenhouse. I know I'll need to thin them out in the pots. When can I plant in the garden. And how much should I thin them out. And when should I thin them out?

I saw that the average last frost for Dallas is March 10th so mid March would be when I planted.

Lettuce needs about a foot of space between each other. So I would measure my garden row and figure out how many I could plant in the area. Then I would thin out the weaker plants to let the stronger ones grow.

Lettuce and onions are frost hardy. You can put them in the ground anytime soon. My cilantro grew all through the winter. It can also go in right away.

Lettuce is semi hardy, which means they will tolerate a light frost. I wouldn't chance it for a extra month of growing.

Thanks guys. Not worried about cilantro. Got a good crop already, just wanted more. I think I will try half of lettuce in greenhouse and the other half in the garden starting around mid March.

Thinking about building a greenhouse. Nothing fancy, about 8x10. Would like sliding roof vents (manual operated), and hail resistant roof and walls. Any good kits out there, or designs?

Nice, looks a tad expensive!

You could build the same thing with roofing panels and 2x4's

Thanks Payne, where can I find polycarbonate panels?

Lowes

I become too attached to my plants if I start my own. I get afraid to put them out. I put in 24 tomato plants Saturday. They were $2.50 a six pack. If the frost gets them I'll just go buy 4 more sis packs.

I'll just pull them up and put them inside if I get a strong frost warning. I had the first ripe tomatoes in my subdivision last year.

One word Bill, Monsanto.

Got the peppers, tomatoes, and a few more planted

BTW Bill, what kind of tomatoes did you plant?

Looks good East

I was propagating some roses today, here's what I did.

pruned the roses then started out in the green house.



get some clear cups and drill the holes



fill the cups with rose garden soil



stick your index finger in the soil to the 2nd knuckle



cut a stem off about an inch under a node, take some of the leaves off



scar the stem about half an inch or so



dip the stem in some water then in a root growth hormone





firm the soil around the stem and water them in



They should be ready to plant at the end of fall early winter.

I have been wanting to do this with some red roses and now valentines is here I might steal one from the wife. Have you ever done this with the roses you get from the florist, I figure its the same?

No need to steal one get all of them after a few days.

You can start them then transplant to bigger pots in the summer and plant them late fall/early winter.

I do the same thing with roses but just stick a bundle of the cuttings in a big jar of water and put in a sunny place.....at least a 90% success rate

and I also just take the cuttings and stick them in the ground. stick 3 or 4 in the same whole and at least one of them will grow

Celebrity ! We got a frost last night. I did nothing to them. I may have to start over.

I was told if you water the frost off first thing in the morning you have a better chance of them surviving. I don't know if that works, the plants always died. Good Luck

The frost was not in the forecast. Looks as if my tomatoes survived, except for the one the cutworm got.

Cutworms already? Dang.

I only lost 3. I bought another 6 pack and replaced them. I have my bell peppers, and jalapenos, but have not yet put them in. I plan to do that next week if there's nor frost in the 10 day forecast.

I saw a few of my potatoes peeking through this morning. I'm nor worried about them freezing. You can cover them with more soil, and they'll keep on ticking.