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Most varieties of our daffodils are already “done”. I need to move some to the “far east” of our property, along the road / ditch — they have taken over our front yard front flowerbed almost completely!* But daffodils along the road out there would be nice. I also saw this morning that our peonies’ flowers are already budding - that surprised me a bit. Maybe I can still hit ‘em with a little plant food tomorrow morning.

We had an unexpected light frost last night, but, the plants I’d put out uncovered seem ok, except the most exposed tomato, an “Early Girl” I’d overwintered indoors, and then taken out a few days ago. Some leaves seem damaged — I’ll know for sure in a day or two. My fault for not being more cautious, but NWS had said 40 deg., not 37 deg. Theoretically I’ll have a couple other overwintered plants producing almost as soon anyway, and a couple of the new plants look like they will be close behind. (Can the “Early Treat tomatoes really produce in 49 days? I don’t know, but I’ll try to push a couple. Some of The Cherry Falls are starting to take off, so it’s possible I may have tomatoes in early June. :-)

*At least the daffodils’ bulbs are easily separated without worrying much about hurting them. I got the rest of the lettuce starts I was discussing with Diana separated B4 heading out last weekend to see our daughter: So far, “ok” — two in particular look a bit peeked, the rest should make it - I hope! The chilly nights seem to have helped them, so I hope the next few warm nights don’t set them back.

All my tomato and pepper seps look good, and to my immense surprise, every one of the (count ‘em!) EIGHT starts of Japanese Cucumbers that were crammed in a 4” pot are looking very good. Something chomped off the tops of 2 of my Asian Squash starts though. No good! Those seem to need VERY warm soil temps for several days to germinate, so, it may be a few days to restart those... Ditto for the Opo - I tried starting 4 more, but only one has come up - barely.

Tomorrow I also HAVE to chop 3 small buckeye trees out of our ditch. Well, they’re actually just past the end of our property, but neighbor lady does no work down there, until the point where their lawn starts (another 250 ft.?), so I checked and she said ok. Those catch debris and can cause a nice damming effect such that water can go over the road beside MY property — I’m not sure how the liability would work out, but, no sense in chancing somebody hydroplaning and getting hurt.

I’d love to salvage and replant the Buckeye trees, but, the soil in the ditch is so rocky, I doubt I’ll get any out intact. We have lots of others coming up anyway...

The medium and largish Buckeye trees are all in bloom and I have a couple hummingbird feeders up, but, no hummingbirds? Very unusual.