Garden Dreams!?
March 24 - I just transplanted 27 tiny leek seedlings. They finished filling a tray started with petunia transplants. I've never grown leeks, I'm wondering how this experiment will work. The roots were different from most little transplants, with a few exceptions they each had one long root. I set up a shop light in the garage (on the 22nd) and put them on the shelf there with the bee balm that got transplanted on the ?20th. Yesterday Curtis planted two rows of two types of peppers. We put them in the fiber pot that the petunias had just vacated. The small daffodils still are looking good. The larger ones are now blooming also. The crocus are still trying to bloom in spite of the rabbits. The purple ones are later than the yellow evidently, they're the ones open now, a larger bloom also. The hyacinths are open today, they smell wonderful. Actually I just went and opened the door so the fragrance is blowing in now. The assortment of hyacinths that I planted, several years ago now, turned out to be mostly pink. I should remember come fall to plant more of the blue and white.
March 8, 2000 - I'm beginning this record about 10 days into starting seeds for the new year. I have 7 kinds of seeds planted and sitting on a heating mat on the kitchen counter. I had excellant germination of the pink and purple wave petunias. The others just starting to sprout are some leeks, an experimental tomato (free from Burpee), bee balm, and eggplant. The experimental impatiens haven't started at all yet. All the seeds I've ordered (4 companies) have arrived and we're waiting for spring so the trees, bushes and plants will get delivered also. Outdoors the bulbs are coming up quickly. We've had some unseasonably warm weather, yesterday 74, today high 70's expected. The minature daffidils are looking good. Crocus have been blooming for a week and a half but rabbits are munching most of them off as soon as they emerge.
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