Seedfork's blog: Heavy rain...

Posted on Feb 26, 2015 7:30 PM

Cool, damp, and windy today, temp stayed in the 40's and the wind made it feel colder. Ended up with well over two inches of rain yesterday so I was really pleased to have gotten the fertilizer out and to have gotten the beds mulched before the rain, no sign of a wash this morning.
The tomato seed planted down in the basement are going like gang busters, but nothing else is doing much, still only one watermelon seed is sprouting. I think in one cell I accidently dropped about six seeds for "Delicious" tomato, I think, and they all sprouted.
I stopped by the feed and seed and Lowe's today looking for something to plant, but they just had nothing that appealed to me, either on the seed rack or in the plant department. They did have some frozen looking Sun Hostas with a little regrowth coming out. Hopefully, as bad as those things looked they will end up on the 1.00 each discount rack. Someone really messed up big time, leaving them out during the last cold snap. Even everything on the discount rack looked awful and there were all annuals. Who wants to buy discounted annuals that are already passed their prime? Even in the bulb sections nothing appealed to me. I was so desperate to find something I even looked at the broccoli and cauliflower and cabbage plants. They were over three dollars for the little six packs and I realized as I stood there that the deer would eat them as soon as I planted them and turned my back. There were six deer in the horse field behind my house last night as the sun was going down.
My camera is still acting crazy, one time it works fine, then it is all messed up for a while then it works a little, just crazy. I tried to get the deer in a photo, but never could get a picture good enough to even show them.I have been shopping refurbished and used cameras and hopefully by my birthday in May I will be able to find one.
I guess my sugar snaps are not going to do anything. I thought they would be fool proof, but guess instead they became proof of a fool. I have planted lettuce three times and may have a half dozen plants up. The spinach is not showing anything yet either. Well, if nothing else, I do have radish plants growing and turnips and the carrots are looking a little better. With all the rain we are having and all the early watering I did, I am beginning to wonder if the seeds are rotting in the ground. Plus I soaked most of the seeds overnight before planting them. The onions are really doing good, hope that continues.
I am getting so excited seeing all the new growth on the roses, the daylilies and the Amaryllis etc.
I am getting the stray bloom here and there on Iris, and the daylilies should soon take off with growth with the warmer days we will be having soon. So looking forward to trying to identify all the plants I planted last year when the new blooms start appearing. It is so much fun to go out each day and see a new fans popping up, some next to older fans, and some just out of nowhere it seems. I had made up my mind to get away from dormants, but the new foliage on them is so much prettier at this time of year than the ratty evergreens and Sev plants, but that will change shortly as the evergreen leaves grow out more. Some days it seems nothing is happening in the garden, but then when I think back just a week or so I can tell things are changing and the growth is ramping up with spring just around the corner.

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