We are UNNATURALLY warm here in upstate NY. It’s not uncommon for this weather for a couple of days here and there - but for nearly two weeks it’s almost unnerving, LOL.
I was out trying to clean up the garden prior to prepping for planting, and saw that our onions and garlic are going nuts! Hubby put them in fall 2010, and we got nuthin’ out of them at harvest. He left them in, and with this mild winter, and super warm spring - they are taking off! Spreading out all over. Problem is that they are where we had planned to put the tomatoes this year, and they are spreading into the walking paths.
We have to rethink the tomato bed, and decide on the fate of the stragglers, but we are looking to have enough garlic to support my husbands enormous garlic habit. There are times (several times a week in fact) that I can’t even enter the kitchen because the garlic fumes sting my eyes so badly.
Going to take a risk and put in mixed lettuce, spinach, and snow peas this week. Those should be OK even if we have sharp drops in temp. And we almost certainly will.
Eighty-five degrees in the People’s Republic of Red Hampshire today...with tomorrow expected to be the same; that will be SIX days over eighty in March...love it! No snow, no ‘mud season’...raised beds are already looking good.