We have tomatoes, peppers, and a few melons growing in the greenhouse. And we have onions, radishes, beets, and lettuce growing in the garden. I feel like we’re farther along than we usually are this time of the year and I’m glad for it.
I told you about my silly plum tree that blooms way to early several weeks back. As usually several hard frosts put an end to any hope of plums. We planted a cherry tree the same year we planted the plum. It’s never bloomed until this year. There aren’t many blooms, but hopefully the few that are there means I’ll have a least a cherry or two for the first time ever this year.
Over the weekend we managed to get Granny’s garden whipped into shape.
Tipper
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I dont know when we will get to do any planting. Soon i hope. We have had so much rain. It still has not dried up. I was mowing and got stuck. I love having a garden and i sure do plant by the signs. Always have. My parents always did to. God Bless!
Here in Central Texas we got down to 34 degrees night before last and 39 last night – very strange weather for April around here. If the weather was trying to play an April Fool’s joke on me, I guess I sorta got one over on it. Due to a series of minor family “emergencies”, all those plants I thought I’d have set out by now are still in the potting shed under lights. Loose ends to tie up this week so maybe they’ll get in the ground next week. Keep your fingers crossed for me!! Hope y’alls weather is settling down as well and everyone has a safe, delightful and productive spring and a blessed Easter. (P.S. – just have to tell someone, I just received a grant of 600 free milkweed plants to establish a Monarch Restoration habitat on our pasture!! No more family “emergencies” allowed until I get all my “babies” in the ground!!!!)
I am anxious to get my garden started, but first I have to find somebody to plow it. It seems to get harder each year to find someone, and harder to find a time when it is not too wet. Does any of your readers know someone who plows gardens in the Bethel area of Haywood County?
The only thing I have growing in my mini greenhouse is tomato plants. It seems like I have more and better tomatoes if I start my plants rather than buy them. Most other vegetables get planted outdoors around the first of May. It’s too cold and wet to think about doing anything in my garden yet.
I finally cut my plum tree down after many years of trying to cover it with a bed sheet before a frost after it had already
bloomed. Several plum trees grew along the side of the road from my school to home when I was growing up. I remember they were always loaded and no one stopped to pick them except me. They had the most delicious and unique taste. I wonder if they were wild plum trees, because the cold weather never seemed to stop them from producing fruit.
You all are ahead of me. I have onions, lettuce, carrots, potatoes and parsley planted. But the lettuce, parsley and carrot are each apparently a total failure. All I can figure is the seed is not viable, too old I guess. Plan to replant this week.
I know what you mean about the tree that takes awhile to make up its mind. I planted a pink dogwood years ago for my wife and nary a bloom until this year. Now it has eight I think it is. And by the way, also years ago I planted white dogwood and redbud in front of the church in the hopes they might both be blooming at the same time. For over ten years it has never happened but just maybe it will this year. Nature – full of surprises.
It has been the longest, strangest winter weather wise that it’s hard to believe that spring is almost here!