After a couple of days of frost earlier this week, I decided to get started planting peppers and okra in the greenhouse. I will put some arugula in the container beds tomorrow.
Tag Archives: gardening
Signs of Spring
I have got a lot of chores to do to get ready for spring. I feel a personal day is coming up real soon. Time to plant the early garden stuff and do a serious decluttering of the house. The AFL season started this morning. The Cats start tomorrow morning against up and coming Collingwood.Continue reading “Signs of Spring”
Persephone Days gone at last.
After today there will be at least ten hours of daylight left. Plants can grow again until mid November at my latitude just above 37 degrees north. Ymmv.
End of Persephone Days
Persephone days are all but gone. Here is the latest pictures of my pepper plants.
Spring is coming
The first sign of spring is the seed catalogs that come around Christmas time. The second sign is when garden supplies pop on the shelves at Wally World. They arrived yesterday.
Persephone days winding down
On January 20 Persephone Days come to an end as there will be just over 10 hours of daylight. Obviously too cold to set plants out, but I can put them in a window sill and expect them to grow. It is also time to start preparing seeds for transplant.
Branch manager
I have a large wood lot that needs serious cutting. Most of it is too small for a chainsaw, but too large for a weedeater. At least when the brush is cut, my new wood chipper will cut it down to size. I will get some fertilizer for the garden. Since I could use someContinue reading “Branch manager”
An inch of rain..
… does not a change in drought status make. For the sixth week in a row we are in an extreme drought status mode, the second worst on a scale developed by the US Department of Agriculture and the University of Nebraska. The maps can be accessed at droughtmonitor.unl.edu on Thursdays after noon US CentralContinue reading “An inch of rain..”
Slow growth
Even in the middle of persephone Days, plants will grow. They just grow slower. When I put my pepper plants indoors for the winter, some of them had flowers. Four weeks after I brought them in some of them have set fruit. What I can’t figure out is how they got pollinated. There are noContinue reading “Slow growth”
Persephone Days are here
Today there are fewer than ten hours of daylight at my latitude. This means outdoor plants do not have enough daylight to grow. It will remain this way until January 19th. Persephone Days are named after the Greek legendary character who was condemned to spend four months a year in Hades. Her mother Demeter wasContinue reading “Persephone Days are here”
Footyfried 