The possums found my tomato seedlings 
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Make your own compost they said. It’ll be great they said…
Anyone want 162 mystery tomato seedlings, let me know.
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Me please, but they won’t like our winter.
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If it’s in the low 60’s and more cloudy than sunny next week is it better to keep my seedlings in the garage under artificial light than to put them outside?
Also about how big do they want to be before planting? Some are 6-8” now! It’s getting exciting over here!
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I’d put them outside but I also live in the upper Midwest so gardening here is a practice in hope. I planted out things in a raised bed last weekend and we have frost warnings this weekend so…
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I’m in Michigan, so we have pretty big swings too. It hasn’t frosted lately though. So, real light is better than artificial?
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Real light is something like an order of magnitude stronger, so yes. Be sure to harden off though.
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Our garden is mostly in for this year. I have a few deck pots to clean up and plant. I also want to buy a few more herbs and vegetables already started. But mostly it’s done.
I was so excited by being outside yesterday that I pulled out Niki Jabbour’s gardening books and started an overall plan for our backyard. Right now our backyard is meadow and insects love it, as do birds, deer and other critters. However, with the price of food going up I’d like a couple more raised beds and a cold frame.
I have hubby interested in working on the hardscaping - paths, steps, etc. But before we do that we need to work on fixing drainage. Currently it drains towards the house. We have a sump pump that handles it when it gets to be too much water. We would prefer to just get rid of the water period.
So, as today is overcast and rainy, it’s back to planning a luscious backyard. 
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Thank you to the folks who provided the mulch insights! The explanation that the mulch I shared is old chip drop makes sense. We decided to go with a medium brown bark mulch from Home Depot, and bought two of those cart-fulls for $200.
It will go under the raised beds, and in the native plans area.
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This area doesn’t look like much, but it is a 3x2 patch of ripped out vinca (periwinkle). I started yesterday and then remembered today that this is why we have gardening gloves.
Put in the last two coleus, and will probably get one more statement plant for there. And dropped in some geraniums who were crowding elsewhere.
Elsewhere being here
And then because the violets were taking too long to pop up in the container, more coleus and dusty miller.
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Good for you. Vinca is terrible.
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Ugh! Now you tell me! I just got a bunch from a friend and planted them last week!
Sorry. You might consider digging it back up while you can, depending on where you are. it’s considered invasive in a lot of the US.
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We’re in Canada. Nova Scotia.
Well, it’s not native to anywhere in North America, but may be less successful in your climate. I don’t know your resources, I’m afraid. A quick Google tells me it’s considered invasive in Ontario, but that’s all the Canadian info I found.
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I think it depends where in Nova Scotia and how easy it will be for it to spread. I’m in zone 6.
Vinca is less of a problem for me than japanese knotweed, dog strangling vine, dandelions, and blooming onion - those I pull out immediately.
The vinca and english ivy and virginia creeper I rip back two times a year to keep it under control. And we usually cut back the euonymus once a year.
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Almost certainly, yes. Feel the stem- round is not a mint; squarish is mint.
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squarish!
so I can put it into things along with the lemon balm
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Well, maybe. Catnip is in the mint family and tastes foul. None of the mint family are toxic to humans, but some are gross ( and perilla/ shiso is toxic to cattle). But I’d taste a leaf before I commit to it.
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