Thaw

[liralen]

It's 60 today. The ground has thawed enough for me to dig into it. And there's supposed to be six inches of snow tomorrow, so I planted all the sugar snap peas and a bunch of spinach. I don't like cabbage enough to plant it here, but I might get a bunch of stuff and start clearing and planting at the OUR center garden next week. Next week...

If it's not like foot deep snow and the ground's all frozen again, but... the snow gives so much moisture to the plants here I couldn't miss the opportunity and peas are... well, they're peas...

So the gardening time starts up again. My arms are sore from turning the soil, but, as usual, I lost my gloves before I even finished the first row, it was too good to feel the earth between my fingers again.

Comments

[beckyb.livejournal.com]

want.
want sugar snap peas.
want thaw.
want dirt between fingers.

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Wow... I love your icon for this comment!! That fits...

*hugs*

It's weird reading 'bout the Californians with their buds and all coming out already. I'm tempting fate at the moment, but I had to.

[tagryn]

Goodness. And I haven't even thought about starting up seedlings yet.

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Oh! I'm not starting tomato seedlings until sometime next month. Spinach and peas are just weird half-winter critters.

[rephetibel.livejournal.com]

I bought sugar snap pea seeds yesterday! Something I need to do at the same time as planting them is secure my garden against the deer. I never used to have a problem. But last fall the deer began jumping over the fence and munching on my veggies. I have several patches of bamboo. All I need to do is cut a bunch of tall stakes and weave them down through the wire of the garden fence. It'll look odd, but ought to keep the deer out.

I just looked at the planting chart for here. It says end of February for spinach. I'll plant that, too. Thank-you for mentioning it. I would not have thought of spinach.

[liralen.livejournal.com]

You're very welcome!! :-)

Spinach seems to do really well in the snow, here...

We have rabbits. They eat everything! Especially the peas. So we have little fences up and they seem to work quite well.