Thursday, May 05, 2005
Cold... so cold....
Well, last frost date is May 15. Ha! It's May 6, and night-time temps are still hovering just above freezing. I can't see how little more than a week is going to make a difference. I've resigned myself to waiting until June 1 to transplant everything. We'll see.
I've put my heart and soul into this garden this year. It's going to be a HUGE disappointment when September rolls around with its first killing frost, especially if I don't have any decent pumpkins yet.
Anyway, just a handful of 4'x4' squares of earth left to prepare to accomodate all the transplants. Not very pretty out there. Kinda looks like unmarked graves.
I've given up on the White Cushaws. They just don't want to grow. That's okay, apparently they're just pretty, and not good eating at all. Author Amy Goldman categorizes them as "spitters," cuz that's what you do when you taste them.
Other recent impulse purchases: lavender plants from Mountain Valley Growers (the "Learning to Love Lavender" Six-Pack, with 6 different kinds of lavender), and lemon grass plants, cuz the ones that I'm growing from seed are pathetically small and wussy. Mountain Valley Growers emailed me back and said it was too cold where I am to send them, and that they would wait until May 16. Yeah, good luck with that.
Note for next year: order seeds ONCE at the very beginning of the season, then BURN the catalogs and somehow block the seed sites so I can't get to them online. I swear, it's like PORN!
The "little tree that could" that's in the side yard busted out with a bunch of buds a couple of days ago. Like this:
Poor thing. He gets a leeeetle bit bigger every year, bless him.
I've put my heart and soul into this garden this year. It's going to be a HUGE disappointment when September rolls around with its first killing frost, especially if I don't have any decent pumpkins yet.
Anyway, just a handful of 4'x4' squares of earth left to prepare to accomodate all the transplants. Not very pretty out there. Kinda looks like unmarked graves.
I've given up on the White Cushaws. They just don't want to grow. That's okay, apparently they're just pretty, and not good eating at all. Author Amy Goldman categorizes them as "spitters," cuz that's what you do when you taste them.
Other recent impulse purchases: lavender plants from Mountain Valley Growers (the "Learning to Love Lavender" Six-Pack, with 6 different kinds of lavender), and lemon grass plants, cuz the ones that I'm growing from seed are pathetically small and wussy. Mountain Valley Growers emailed me back and said it was too cold where I am to send them, and that they would wait until May 16. Yeah, good luck with that.
Note for next year: order seeds ONCE at the very beginning of the season, then BURN the catalogs and somehow block the seed sites so I can't get to them online. I swear, it's like PORN!
The "little tree that could" that's in the side yard busted out with a bunch of buds a couple of days ago. Like this:
Poor thing. He gets a leeeetle bit bigger every year, bless him.
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