We have been stuck in a warm, rainy weather system that won't go away. In the past week we have had about 2.5" of rain on top of 6 inches in April. It's wet. But... it could be snowing. It could absolutely be snowing. So I'm OK with it. It is just the first week of May after all. And, if I had a traditional in ground garden and was either waiting to till, or had tilled and was trying to work in the mud...
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Cole Crops are thriving |
My
winter project of a wire mouse excluder has been working. I planted sunflower seeds and put the wire cover over them, shoving it down into the soft soil and weighing it down. If they don't come for sunflower seeds, they should leave squash seeds alone too. I haven't even had to resort to adding dryersheets.
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Little baby sunflower seedlings |
Last year the mice ate all of my sunflower seeds so I am looking forward to having some this year to attract the finches.
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Carrots have germinated |
The cold frame is chock full of plants. There are my seedlings, annuals from the Amish greenhouse and mail order perennials that arrived. I am about ready to start planting things out even if I have to keep frost covers on them because I have more seedlings to move out and some of them should probably be potted up into larger pots for a few weeks which will take up even more space.
I have all of my containers moved out and filled with potting mix. I think I will actually have enough potting mix to do what I planned with maybe a little left over for wiggle room. I've used about 150 gallons and still have ten 3 gallon containers to fill for micro tomatoes.
I ended up having to buy Candy onion starts from the greenhouse. Mine didn't amount to anything, but I will make adjustments and try again next year.
And Oh My Gosh! at least one of my seed potatoes has survived the constant soaking and is erupting through the soil. I had just about given up on them. I figured they had all rotted.
The apple trees are in full bloom.
If nothing else it has been excellent grass growing weather.