The Barbarian
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Seriously hard to wait! Now, I have replenished my herbs, and they're potted and sitting in the sunroom.@terri it’s hard to wait! You could do some containers to fill in any gaps and to keep your hands dirty until you see what’s what.
Dafs are the gateway drug to incurable bulb addiction...You'll soon be lost to species tulips and jonesing for all the early Spring stuff, too. So sad.My mother had a vegetable garden when I was a kid and my sisters and I were forced to do garden work in the summers. It wasn't a regular chore - my mother would just holler for us randomly - so I never got into the habit. We also apparently, in her mind, did everything wrong, so we were left with only grunt work like weeding or digging, so I also didn't really get a good idea of the overall picture of how it all worked. It might have been different if I had been even slightly interested in it all, but I was so resentful of being ordered around and I hated being out in the heat with the bugs just getting yelled at all afternoon. So no, gardening was never my thing.
Even now, if it's something I have to do in the summer, then I won't do it. I'll mow the lawn on cooler days later in the evening when the sun isn't on my yard. I started keeping plants in my office at work a few years ago and discovered that I am better at that than I ever thought I was before, so that's been fun. As for outdoor stuff, I know that I do have to do yardwork and *some* gardening now to make my yards look nice. I plan on very very low maintenance bushes and flowering plants in the front, and lawn + wildflower meadow in the back.
So back in the fall, I planted some daffodil bulbs. And this month, they actually bloomed! This is the first gardening I've ever done willingly and it's cool that it actually worked! I know it's kinda pathetic compared to what y'all are doing, but duuuuuuuuuude, I planted a flower and it's still alive!!! That has never happened before!!
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Been 80 all week, seems we’ve skipped most of spring. Half the sugar snaps died from the heat. I’ll start with the full on veg garden planting this week. Be one of the earliest years I’ve had to setup irrigation but it looks like another year of hot dry April which usually means a cool wet May. Well see.
On brighter note, broccoli and leaks are doing great, the broccolini is almost ready to set out abd all the other summer stuff will get in the ground this week.
Same here - it's been a gorgeous week around here. The warmer temps are teasing the flowers and tree buds to pop open and it looks amazing. But - it won't last after this weekend. We're in for some cold rain, and next week will be much more in line with regular temps this time of year. Which is okay, really - I've been visiting the local nurseries and they just don't have anything yet. I'm going again later today because we're mid-April and I just expect to see a few things. I can keep young plants happy in their containers for several days until we're back up in the 60s.It was a gorgeous 80° here today and going to be more of the same tomorrow. Then I think we’ll be back to more expected 50’s and 60’s for the weekend. I’d love to put some of my seedlings in the beds now but I am going to wait. I’ve frozen my butt off at enough April and May softball games to know that the weather here can turn on a dime.