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I am a transplant to Buffalo, having been born and raised in the eastern part of the state (east of Albany in the hamlet of Melrose in the little town of Schaghticoke, north of Troy in Rensselaer County, just to load you up with hard-to-spell words-- imagine my elementary school days). One thing about Buffalo that few people ever realize is that our lake effect means that we are actually much milder than the rest of the state. We are a USDA climate zone 6a. The rest of New York State ranges within zones 4 and 5.
("Zones" refer to plant hardiness. They're defined by the minimum and maximum temperatures reached in the region, and are used to indicate what plants will survive there and what won't.)

What this means is that I can grow all kinds of neat stuff my mom can't. Her garden, the beautiful culmination of 28 years in the same place (they own 50 acres on a secluded dead-end road overlooking the Hudson River, bordered largely by agricultural properties), is a marvel to behold, but ha! My crocuses have already bloomed and hers are only just opening, and my daffodils are about to bloom while hers haven't even come up.

And I'm totally going to have tomatoes before she does.

We sorta got gypped on winter this year, though.
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💬 4 comments

  1. kara ·

    I started a post on flowers and veggie plants, but never finished it. I'm going to start a square foot garden out back, with containers for lettuce, (purple) carrots, peppers and herbs on the porch.
    Please post your garden tips. I don't have a green thumb, and until I get through this season I won't know if I have any thumbs at all.

  2. dragonlady7 ·

    LOL. Should I post about gardening? This is my second year with a garden. I don't know much, but I know I didn't screw up too badly last year.
    (I also know that if it's food, Z will help me, but if it's flowers, I'm on my own.)

    I'll go take the hokey calendar off the fridge and write down the planting dates I figured out for this zone-- how's that? :)

  3. imk2 ·

    i plant, every year, vegetables in flower pots. i usually plant tomatoes, green peppers, red peppers, banana pepper, chives, zuchini, lettuce...lots of it...to eat with salt and sour cream, whild strawberries. i also manage to get the usual herbs like chives, sage, thyme, lots and lots of mint for fresh mint tea...parsley and some more which i cannot remember cuz i'm kinda drunk...hee hee

  4. imk2 ·

    um i had a point, which was, you dont really need to know what youre doing, i didnt, and still am able to come up with something edible. a lot of people get put of by gardening because they thinik there is some magic tric they need to know. but basically put shit in soil, watch shit grow, then...eat shit.

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