Re: Joe Bastardi
Love him. We’re still in a Solar Minimum, so I’m trying very hard not to jump the gun here in Zone 5b. It’s hard, LOL!
We’re in for a week of rain, but nice and sunny on the weekends. I can live with that weather pattern.
That said - the plants must know SOMETHING because I had lousy germination on my pepper plants (inside) and had to start 12 more of them, today. Tomatoes are doing OK, but of COURSE, the few cherry-types I need are being jerks, too.
Anyhow, I’m also having NO germination on lettuces out in the greenhouse, which is weird. I’m going to pull those trays in and start all over again on them, as I made space in the grow rack today by moving spinach out to the greenhouse where it’s happy no matter what the weather.
My peppers have not germinated yet, but the onions, cabbage, radicchio, and romaine has.
But they are going to have to wait to be put out if the weather is going to be that bad. They are too small to put out now anyways. They need a couple more weeks and by then we’ll know what we are in for.
I just started my tomato seeds late last week and nothing is up yet. I planted some 9 year old chervil seeds and they are coming up already.
We’re looking at two beautiful days here of sun and warm before it rains again for the rest of the week, so I will be spending as much of the time outside as I can. Then it will be back indoors and picking up on the quilt again.