A few days ago, we were told to expect ice pellets overnight with snow this morning. It got windy with rain on Saturday. Instead of ice and snow, we got tornado weather yesterday. The temperature dropped from 78F yesterday afternoon to 36F this morning. We'll have this cold for at least a week.
I didn't cover the outside transplanted rhubarb. It was a hard decision, but I finally decided since it can winter over, it could handle a couple of cold days. I have a backup rhubarb plant in my apartment. And there are 13+ plants outside. If all of them take, I'll be buried in rhubarb. Much will go to friends and neighbors. Friends will take the extra starts. I could probably start my own CSA.
The seedlings are blowing my mind. A lot of seeds started, but became too squished. I re-potted them last night, and it's a good thing I did. The root structures were long and spreading. It would have been knots in a few more days. I accidentally broke more roots than I liked. The look OK this morning.
I couldn't bring myself to thin them, so I'm approaching 100 plastic cups with up to 5 seedlings each and I'm not done. The cat is irritated about the time, the smell (soil is distracting her), and the space this is taking up. I am running out of flat surfaces and will start making an island of boxes in the middle of the floor so everything can get as much sun as possible. I only have 1 west facing window in the living room. The bedroom is too small to keep plants in there. Grow, grow, grow!
Good news! The garden is going to be tilled on Thursday. I have to buy another 200lbs of soil additive and spread first it so it can be tilled in.
Seedlings will be planted over the next 3 weeks then watered and occasionally cloched as weather dictates.
That's the plan anyway.
I didn't cover the outside transplanted rhubarb. It was a hard decision, but I finally decided since it can winter over, it could handle a couple of cold days. I have a backup rhubarb plant in my apartment. And there are 13+ plants outside. If all of them take, I'll be buried in rhubarb. Much will go to friends and neighbors. Friends will take the extra starts. I could probably start my own CSA.
The seedlings are blowing my mind. A lot of seeds started, but became too squished. I re-potted them last night, and it's a good thing I did. The root structures were long and spreading. It would have been knots in a few more days. I accidentally broke more roots than I liked. The look OK this morning.
I couldn't bring myself to thin them, so I'm approaching 100 plastic cups with up to 5 seedlings each and I'm not done. The cat is irritated about the time, the smell (soil is distracting her), and the space this is taking up. I am running out of flat surfaces and will start making an island of boxes in the middle of the floor so everything can get as much sun as possible. I only have 1 west facing window in the living room. The bedroom is too small to keep plants in there. Grow, grow, grow!
Good news! The garden is going to be tilled on Thursday. I have to buy another 200lbs of soil additive and spread first it so it can be tilled in.
Seedlings will be planted over the next 3 weeks then watered and occasionally cloched as weather dictates.
That's the plan anyway.
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