The snow is melting, and we're supposed to get a week's worth of April showers. Today, however, was fabulously warm, and I busted butt to get my peas planted before the rain. I got 3/4 of them in, which is pretty good considering I have to dig a new space for half of them as I'm doubling what I planted last year.
I also transplanted a bunch of mountain laurels, hoping to increase the length of our laurel hedge. And I further pruned the evergreens that the laurels live under. The old laurels look extremely happy now. LOL.
I also tossed handfuls of wildflower seed on our "impossible" little hill next to the driveway. It is about 6" high and very steep (and clay!), between a dry stone retaining wall and a row of 40' high evergreens. Used to be a bunch of weeds there, but I've been working on it, and I'm hoping the coming rains will germinate the wildflower seeds...
Every day we have good weather I'm trying to do something. Yesterday I tidied inside the cold frames and planted lettuce and kale inside them. I also raked the lettuce bed (need to toss some seed out there before the rain as well).
So much to do, I could fill days and days and days and days!
I still need to prune the apples and plum tree; maybe I can do it in between rainfalls. Should have done it before, but it snuck up on me somehow.
My indoor seedlings are not doing well. But I'm going to deal with them (er, replant them) when it's too rainy to be outdoors. I tried germinating them in wet paper towels in plastic bags on top of a heat mat, and they never germinated.
: Too wet, maybe? Some of them were new seeds from a reliable source, and at least those should have sprouted. Also my onions and leeks are sloooooooow going and I have like one of each (planted 60 cells of each). I wonder if I lost my green thumb somewhere? Maybe I dropped it in the compost?
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