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How gardening is going for me: It’s not, really. I planted a bunch of cold hardy type seeds a month late just to give me something to do while waiting on phone calls or emails for a job. Same with reorganizing the shed and my tools last weekend. Busy work but in that case, something that needed to be done anyway.

This week, all my mental attention has been on the new job and I didn’t bother going out to the shed for the past few days and it’s been warm. Between neglect and signs of a little mouse friend, the seedlings are mostly wiped out.

Will try and save the tatsoi and salanova lettuce and few other things that survived and will set a couple of mouse traps. Will have to search the shed for gaps that a mouse could fit through but it’s also just getting too hot in there at this point. Might bring them and a couple of grow lights up here to the house.

Another year of what seems like a 30 degree jump of avg daily temp in a few weeks. April is the new May.

Bought some tomato and pepper plants Monday and will get them in the ground today. Just a few of each and that might be all I do for Spring/Summer.

As for the tunnel, I’m shooting for having it closed in and operational by cold weather — again.

A couple 30 day forecasts:

https://www.30dayweather.com/en/

https://weather.com/weather/monthly/

After some abnormally warm 70F temps in MA ends Sat, only two more are forecast until 6-10. But from here on in, day temps are in 60's and night temps upper 40's to 50's during the next 30. Today 50's, cooler at coast, but tomorrow, Fri.,by the grace of God, i hope to plant the seedlings that were started about 4-1, in a mixture of above-ground garden soil mixed with Topsoil to make a cheap potting soil. Under cheap (more expensive since 3 days ago) gro lights.

Today, I need to finish prepping the soil today after turning more over yesterday, and mixing in some sprinkling of 10-10-10 granular fertilizer and fast lime, which I should've done last fall. I need to make holes for the plants in the permeable ground cover a brother in Christ gave me (he used to grow pot before his conversion, PTL).

Most of this produce is for others. Thanks be to God for what we can do to His glory.