Happy Groundhog’s Day — Spring’s Coming!
Submitted by My Garden Spot Blog
Well, Happy Groundhog’s Day everyone! Seems that ol’ Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow this morning. If he’d been here, he’d have seen his shadow too, but in our case, he’d have been predicting about 12 to 14 more weeks of non-heatstroke worthy weather, rather than 6 more weeks of winter. It is good to live where winter is a pleasant time. Seriously, y’all up north have my sincere and true respect. Surviving in that cold…brrr. I don’t think I could do it. My knees hurt enough with our (relatively) milder cold fronts. I cannot imagine trying to move around when the weather has been as beastly as it has been for so many of you for so long.
As for me? Time to get those peas in the ground! The chard I planted on the 28th is already up. I was expecting it to take a few more days. I’ve put the flat outside, in the relative protection of an old aquarium so that it can get enough sun. I don’t have many windows that let in enough sun, as in the summer, what would be just enough sun in the winter, would make it very hard to keep the house cool. Some of the other seeds I planted on the 27th are also peeking up. They’re still inside, until tomorrow. We had a cold front move in and it will be chilly outside tonight.
Y’all. I started a LOT of seeds this year. I’ve never tried to do so many starts, as I usually would have just bought some small plants from the nurseries here. I thought I’d try doing it from seed this year, so that I could give some plants to some neighbors and others for my mom.
I’ll post a picture of my planting list later today, or tomorrow. Fortunately, I won’t have to have a grow light, as I can probably put the sprouted flats outside to grow in a week or so.
I dug into my compost yesterday and under the cap of leaves that has (finally!) fallen from the ash tree, it is fiiiinnnnee. I should also note that the same ash tree that just a couple of weeks ago dropped those leaves…is now budding out.
The weather was so nice yesterday that ‘Pup and I actually grilled. Grilled vs Barbecue means that we used direct heat to cook some chicken, a couple of pork chops and two very nice steaks. Barbecuing would have entailed a long cooking process over indirect heat and a lot of smoke. It was so nice outside, we even stayed outside after dark and ate by candle light. Neither of us was interested in the Super Bowl, though I’ll probably be searching for the commercials later today.
The little work I did outside yesterday played havoc with my knees, but I’ve an early appointment with the joint doctor tomorrow and hopefully, that will be taken care of for another few weeks.
