Not a day to dig, even though pulling the weeds up with the whole root would work very well. A bit damp and cold, even for me. We got a few inches, the mountains got a respectable dumping, lots of crashes on roads, and ecstatic skiers calling in "sick."
I console myself by starting the bee balm inside. I will take them out in a few weeks, cut a hole in the bottom and let them stay in their own little cup holders when I put them out in the soil.
Some will go out direct to ground, once the snow melts. Tiny, tiny, tiny wee seeds, hard to handle well. Plenty to go around, though. Thyme will have to wait for the weekend as well.
Moby basking in the sun. Out there the snow is melting madly. Likely all gone by evening, tomorrow afternoon certainly.
Addendum: Warmed up, and drew me irresistibly out. Remarkably easy to dig, weeds came out without a tug. Amazing progress. Lost one of my dragonfly/key earrings, which is in the nature of earrings, like socks. I asked the soil for it back, but acknowledged that I could hardly begrudge it either.
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Moby looks more brown than black in the sunlight....
I seem to remember a relative who would make a paste of a little flour and water and mix in the tiniest seeds and put the whole mixture into a pastry cone to squeeze out into the soil. Seemed to work well for her, but I haven't ever tried it myself.
Isn't it terrible to have "spring fever" so early?! Just itching to get things done!
Class,
He has a lighter undercoat.
Ooo, I like that idea. I don't have any of the materials needed, but I can work with that concept... thinkthinkthink...
I haven't a plan yet for my raised beds in the back that don't get enough sun. We're thinking of hiring an horticulturist to redo the plantings along the front of our house. Most of them have gotten very gangly.
Our snow from last night mostly melted away today, however, there is still two or three feet of snow beneath it that still has to go.
Phil,
If you come across something that doesn't need much sunlight, I need that for part of the back as well.
Gardens do need tending, even the somewhat messy ones.
Still too cold and wet here.
gz,
It normally would be here, too. This year is very weird.
Talk about cold. Still I love bee balm and maybe starting a few seeds now under the gro light is a good idea here too....;)
troutbirder,
You have my utter sympathy. I wish it had been colder here, but not THAT cold. It's been useful for me to get ahead on the garden, but it feels terribly wrong.
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