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Permalink Reply by Kathy Koch on March 31, 2011 at 11:26am

I am starting potatoes in a potato bag. I put the bags in plastic buckets for watering and keep them in my breezeway which has grow lights until it is warm enough to place them outside. Just do a search on potato bags and you should come up with some sources. They worked well for us last year. We have three bags.

Permalink Reply by Stefan Mattlage on March 31, 2011 at 3:23pm

Starting Tomatos, peppers, eggplant this week. Next week broccoli, cauliflower  We be starting flowers and herbs later. Here in NH they are talking SNOW. We have had a very cool March  way below average.  Patience is required here in NH. I am so far a full 2 weeks behind last year

Permalink Reply by Lisa Bronkhorst on April 1, 2011 at 10:32am

I have started many  vegetables, perennials and 4 trays of annuals. They are just starting to poke their heads out of the soil and I love it. I also took some cuttings of willows early Feb that I forced to bloom inside and now am propagating so they won't go to waste. :)

Permalink Reply by thea stoughtenger zn4,ny on April 1, 2011 at 1:42pm

 Lisa that is very interesting ,how do you force willows? Ok I have a lot of questions on that . So please tell me as much as you can .

Permalink Reply by Lisa Bronkhorst on April 1, 2011 at 2:14pm

Hi willows are extremely easy to root, they have a rooting hormone right in the stem, so basically you can cut off some branches, stick them in water and they will grow roots and lots of roots. I have propagated many this way. You can also just stick them in soil and they will root as well. I will add some photos of the ones I forced this spring so you can get an idea of what I mean by forcing them. Please let me know if you have any more questions. :)

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Permalink Reply by thea stoughtenger zn4,ny on April 9, 2011 at 9:55pm

are they 3 different kind of willow or are the pink and yellow a different type of plant .? Please excuse me as i do not know most plants . only the ones I have planted and grown or grew up with . your pictures are very good .

Permalink Reply by Lisa Bronkhorst on April 10, 2011 at 7:11pm

Hi The pink one is a Flowering Almond and the yellow is Forsythia, the forsythia flowered beautifully but didn't root, and the Flowering Almond didn't flower as well as it does outside in the spring the flowers were a lot smaller inside. It was an experiment I had never tried to force the flowering almond before.

 

On another note, the Forsythia will root outside, I have propagated a bunch this way, using a root hormone