The past two days we have had a thaw. Its about 50 degrees out and the snow is melting. I just took a few minutes to poke around the yard and see what’s happening. A lot of trash and debris had blown into the yard and been buried by the snow. I went around and cleaned up. When I went over to look in the vegetable garden I noticed some little orange spots in the dirt. This is what I pulled out:
What a cute little carrot! Also, the scallions are still green and plentiful. Pretty soon I’ll be planting carrots again!
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2009
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2009
In the garden today
Feb
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2009
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2009
February- at least it’s not January…
Some garden news:
The other half of my seeds came in the mail yesterday! I ordered 1,000 spinach seeds-wow.
We went and looked at the greenhouse in person and decided it wouldn’t be right for our farm. It was enormous! Also, it needed to be disassembled within the next few weeks, but we are under 2 feet of snow here and it just didn’t seem feasible.
However, we did buy 10 industrial food grade barrels to turn into rain water storage. That’s 550 gallons of water!
I hung my springtime forsythia wreath on the door, even though we have a ways to go. I know this is the time of year to force forsythia too, but I can’t remember where there is any to pick in this city. If you have it in your yard, go pick some and stick it in water. You’ll have cheery yellow blossoms before you know it!
image from learn2grow
