Hey hey! First one in. Nothing to report except new snow last night, Temps in the teens today, and there is sprouting going on inside.
I can identify with that picture! :-)
Hallgrimskirkja, Reykjavik, Iceland
For those that didn’t catch my posts late in last weeks thread; I reworked my profile page to include a ton of gardening links and info. Most of it has been collected from the weekly garden threads by freeper Pete from Shawnee Mission. I also added a subject based list of links to the Agriculture folder on my cloud.
https://freerepublic.com/~pollard/
(No the man watering is not Pollard!)
Today started at 12 degrees and sunny in SE Iowa. Still good windchill blowing. I did get out and start up the old Troybilt Tiller to charge battery. Just waiting on the soil to dry out and get warm. My Bare root Blueberry plants arrived. Saw a great quote, “Danger is real but Fear is a choice.”
Greetings from southern New Hampshire, where a warm snap this past week got rid of much of our snow and ice, while giving us a shot in the arm of enthusiasm for the approaching spring and gardening season!
I was able to get rid of most of the snow and ice on the decks and all of it on our driveway. I also was successful in restoring our pellet stove to full functionality! The deceased has been brought to life, much to the chagrin of the service puke who thought he would sucker this dumb rube into disposing of the old pellet stove and buy a new one from him!
I bought some seeds today! Pole beans, bush beans, wax beans and yellow pear tomatoes! Household Six said I did good. I also picked up additional PEX piping so that I can run the additional water lines to her potting counters as well as to a sill cock outside, where one is really needed, year round. That is my project for the next warm day.
Have Faith! Spring is coming!
Ooops! Reminds me that I wanted to start some tomato plants. I figure if we have some of our garden here planted, that will tempt buyers when we list the house, and we can start our garden in PA at the same time as we will be back and forth regularly.
39F & snow showers yesterday; clear 50 today; clear 55 tomorrow, then...
Snow, with HIGHS of 7; -1; -2 M-T-W with 5-8” accumulation predicted.
Never, EVER trust the early-mid Febluberry thaw!
Meanwhile, I have my seed situation in hand; and the potted sweet potato is crawling all over the kitchen windowsill.
Wild turkeys are back, and got some corn this afternoon; they’ll really need it next few days.
It was another typical February week of weather here in Central Missouri. We had a nice warm-up, which melted off all of the snow we got last week, then it snapped off cold and we had two days of freezing rain, sleet, and snow. Now it’s just cold. Temps are expected to be in the lower 60°s today, and close to 70° tomorrow.
I ordered the corrugated polyethylene panels that I will need for the new greenhouse. Those were supposed to be here yesterday, but the nasty weather delayed shipment. I still need to hit the lumber yard and pick up the materials for the framing, but I’m not getting out on the roads with a trailer until all of the pack ice is gone.
Noticed yesterday that Lowe’s has their garden seed display set up. That means it is time to pull out the Jung’s catalog and make a list...
It was kinda’ cold this morning - 20F when I went to walk the dog & let the hens out. The coffee pot was turned on just before I stepped out the door so I could immediately have a hot cup upon coming back in.
The hens had not laid anything when I broke the ice on their water & let them out, but when I went back with a “treat” for them, one of the hens hopped out of the next box .... there was a fresh-out-of-the-hen very WARM egg in the box, so that immediately became a hand warmer in my pocket. A warm egg is one of my very favorite things .... a simple pleasure.
Anyway, this is my last (cold!) morning of dog/chicken sitting. Everyone is alive/well - no losses to predators.
I’ll be spending the rest of the day/week glued to my laptop screen, watching GPS and updates in the Iron Dog Group on FB. Iron Dog week is my very favorite part of “winter”.
One more thing .... any cucumber recommendations? I plant them for my folks (I’ll eat the very occasional one) so I don’t need anything super prolific .... nothing too small or too big, & tasty would be nice! I have some seeds planted the last 2 years (”muncher” cukes, I think) & I would like some fresh seeds for this year.
