We went from 3 feet of snow to mid 60's F degrees in just 1 week. I took advantage of the spring like weather to investigate the garden for what work may lie ahead. There were a few surprises waiting for me.
A good amount of Radicchio was already forming mini heads. They are growing in the mid season mixed lettuce bed from last years garden.
Spinach leftover from a raised bed area. I believe it is seed I scattered last November, after I removed the wood frames for another spot in the garden. The blurry plant I think may be Cilantro since the leaves are not of Parsley shape. Although I may be wrong.
I found 5 clumps of Parsley which were plants from last year. This is the first time I have had parsley survive a winter in the garden. There are about 4 celery plants which survived along with these guys. Weird!
I have so much work ahead of me for the garden clean up. So many sticks and rubbish blew in. Not to mention all the dead weeds I need to clear out.
I was not able to get to half of the garden before the first snow. The weeds took over the pumpkin patch as soon as I removed all the vines. This particular weed grows so fast. From just 1/2 an inch to 2 feet in as little as 1 1/2 weeks. They grew rampant last year throughout the entire garden. Making it a full time job pulling all I can. They seed very quick, so I was not able to keep up. This year I will be using the black landscape plastic. I am not devoting my summer to weeding.
Taking a break from all the clean up, I stopped over at my good friend Kim's place. She is in mid process of putting her new garden toy together.
I left dripping with envy along with more determination to finish the solar pit greenhouse. The windows I have will not fit right onto the framing, so we are going with greenhouse plastic. Besides, A few panels of glass broke over winter. Making me rethink the whole glass route.
I have a few places to travel off to this weekend. I am hoping the weather will remain somewhat warm from now on. I have a few places on the road trip schedule which require the weather we are having.
As for the next few days, I will be singing the rain rain go away song. After all this cold and snow, I'm ready to go out and play!
Sweet dreams,
~Tammie
3 comments:
have you thought about using cardboard instead of plastic? you can get huge pieces of it at places like home depot (refrigerator and other appliance boxes when they open up their floor models) and they're so much better than plastic :) (plus in the spring you can plant right through them, everything's good 'n' dead underneath)
gardens do look so sad this time of year, but the promise of warm days is teasing us right now here in the upper midwest.
I want a little greenhouse too!
We are starting to get bare patches around here ... hints of spring and warmish weather. Enjoy your garden - we won't find ours for quite a while. And can't plant until mid-May, anyway.
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