My chickens luuuurv hornworms. The hornworms not so much with the luv for chickens.
Today I worked more in my strawberry bed. I thinned the strawberry plants on the end that didn’t get worked last weekend. I’ve probably got an ‘extra’ hundred and fifty strawberry plants now. They’re like Amish Friendship bread. I’m trying to find them some good homes. I will probably end up using a hundred or so of those in another strawberry bed. THEN I have to plant out 25 whopper strawberry plants that have been sitting in a container waiting for another bed to be finished. Also planted out 25 Fort Laramie strawberries (from Parks, they sent 26 good looking plants) into large drinking cups while they wait for their own bed. Hopefully next weekend the temporarily moved plants will get back into their own bed and any leftovers will find good homes.
Tomorrow morning hubby and I will put down the cardboard, topsoil from bags and pine straw mulch over where we’re going to put the new beds. Later on, in a few weeks, we’ll get some black edging to mark them clearly. Sometime toward the end of April I’ll put the new plants in their own beds.
Planted some more trays of sweet peppers yesterday too. Tonight I’ll probably plant some trays of herbs and flowers.
Got my Jungs and Gurneys orders in today. Gurneys was an ‘Anne’ raspberry that went into a large pot. Jungs order was some seeds, 3 horseradish roots and a ‘Barbeque’ rosemary and ‘Hot and Spicy’ oregano. Those got their own big pots. One of my to do lists this spring before the garden starts producing is to prepare my own herb garden.
Still unseasonably cool here today. Does NOT feel like the middle/end of March.
We had a big snow today - started last night. About 14 inches in St. Louis. Had to call of the birthday celebration party for my daughters ( both were born in March).
It’s not a record though, Around 20 inches in 1890.
We have ordered plants, but they won’t even ship them till later this month. I’m going to go back to hibernation and drag out the thermal wear if this keeps up.LOL