Going down to 28° tonight so the hosta pots are blanketed. The plants grew about 2” this past week & are up over the pot rim. They are still in the ‘shoot’ rather than leaf phase so I hope the blankets won’t weigh too heavy on them. They’ll need blankets later this week & I think I have a way to keep the blankets off of the plants next time.
Super blustery all day & still blowing at 9:30 pm. High temps were in the 50’s today so quite chilly with the wind & too windy for outside work.
Chilly here, too - but sunny! Running errands today, but tomorrow is my day to get my 10-10-10 granular down on all the fruit trees and flowering trees/shrubs as rain is predicted for Thursday and that soaks it in nicely for me.
Peppers are coming along well and the tomatoes have only been in for 2 days, but they’re keeping warm under lights until they sprout.
Still have a few more sticks to gather up, but it’s finally down to a manageable level.
Other garden-related items on the docket are:
Prune Lilac suckers
Move Rosemary plant to greenhouse - under cover with the spinach and lettuces
Talk to ‘Miss Peach’ (Thanksgiving Cactus) and tell her how PRETTY she is, BLOOMING again, though Beau tried to kill her this winter, LOL! She also needs re-potting - I finally have the cactus dirt she needs.
Rake leaves off of, and prune, Juniper shrub. Prickly job, but I’ve pruned it to look kind of ‘Bonsai’ so it’s also a creative and fun chore.
Rake pathways around raised garden beds (straw, leaves, etc. Good stuff for the compost bin!)
Set up the Rain Barrel.
Move rocking chairs to the kitchen porch.
Prune suckers off of Magnolia and fertilize. It looks like she made it through the freezing and warm-ups of this late winter. :)
Everything else on ‘The List’ is ‘Inside Stuff’ that I don’t feel like doing, LOL!
Our predicted low early next Saturday morning has dropped to 34 deg. F. It was more like 39 deg. F, last time I looked.
That’s not not a good trend, though it should be breezy, which should prevent frost. This morning we started off at 38 deg. F, but with breeze and sprinkles, so, no frost worries there.
I went ahead and got out the garden hoses today, and hooked up the long link out to the chicken houses. That will save me a lot of lugging of water out there. :-)