I can’t win with hardening off. Turns out this weekend would have been great for planting, but it was so cool, I hadn’t put things outside yet. (Plus we were going away, so it just seemed safer to wait for next weekend.) I did pivot soon enough to get the Swiss chard outside, and I […]

Tis the season for wandering around garden centers. I took Friday off to do my traditional wander around Mackworth/Gilsland (trout lilies were sadly gone by, but as you can see from previous entries, it was still a great walk). I went to Broadway Gardens that afternoon, which was only a touch below crazy weekend levels

It worked! As of Thursday, all of the tubers I over wintered in the garage had visible sprouts! I do have to acknowledge that this was a very mild winter. I came across a post online with people are far north as Minnesota noting that they have dahlia sprouts in their gardens from leftover tubers

I have finally finished moving the old compost pile away from the fence to the new pile. It helped that the remains shrunk quite a bit over the winter, so I was able to knock the rest out in about 45 minutes in the hour and a half between when I get done with work

I’ve actually done two rounds of planting since I last checked in – all of the surviving seedlings are now in larger pots. I need to do something about my marigold starts. I’m not having good luck in the pods. I may try those in larger flats next year, and prick them out into these

The dahlia over-wintering experiment continues. I’d like to be able to plant them right into the large pots I use, since I managed to kill one transplanting them up last year. But, I really do need to start them sooner rather than later to get them to a good size. So we’ll see if this

(I am massively behind on my April entries…) I did my first round of planting up seedlings on the 17th. This is the dahlias and eggplant.

I did get my last batch of seeds in on Saturday, so I’m doing as much Spring work as I can. I’m itching to get out and do some yard work, but the back yard is currently soup.

Well, snow’s gone again. At least for a little while. We’re apparently going to get a nor’easter next week, so it’s just a question of where that sets up to see if we get snow or rain. At least if it snows in April, it tends to melt quickly. I did finally get into the

Got my first batch of seeds in yesterday. This is mainly notable for what was happening outside. We no longer have a lack of snow on the ground. In fact, after snowing all day yesterday, it turned to rain overnight, and we woke up with all this lovely ice this morning. I really hate this