We went from a high of 52F yesterday (Saturday 27 April) to a high of 82F today (Sunday 28 April). It's hard to know what to do in the garden from day to day. Yesterday I got another pretty big section of the veg turned over; I want to put my brassicas in that spot. It grew potatoes last year and I must have forgotten to dig all the rows because I harvested two buckets of potatoes! Most of them look very good; because we never had a long period of hard freeze this winter I suspect they "stored" perfectly in the ground. The rain chased me in before I could actually get my cabbages and broccoli in the ground and today it's too hot to plant them out. I'll wait til Wednesday when it starts to cool down a bit.
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What are the strangest things you've found in mulch or compost? A few years ago, I found a silver ring with a broken diamond chip in it. It had gone thru the township's mulch shredder and the ring was badly twisted. I advertised it but no one came forward and I think I tossed it. Today I found "Crime Scene Victim Barbie"....she must have got raked up with last autumn's leaves and she lay in the red raspberry patch all winter. I got her cleaned up and I'll advertise her in the local Post Office because I'm pretty sure those bags of leaves came from someone in the neighborhood. What a mess. Took me a half hour to get all the dead bits of leafs and things out of her hair and scrub the ick off her.
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Got more "stuff" out of the greenhouse and more plants moved in. I've got it vented to keep from getting too hot and I need to turn on the outside faucet so I can start watering and misting regularly.
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My early red Pontiac potatoes are up and growing; parsnips are up but very spotty. Peas are doing great; asparagus is doing great for 1st and 2nd year plants. Rhubarb is booming along; I have to harvest that soon. All at once it's summer here.
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