gardening
I'm a week late starting, but that's better than the month or more late I was last year. As we're forecast for a foot of snow today, that doesn't seem too bad. We're technically zone 7 here (only just, we're on the border of zone 6) - at least until the climate shifts are taken into account, and then it's anyone's guess.
"Last frost" is supposedly mid-April, which matches last year, which is all I have to go on in personal experience here. That puts me a month earlier than I thought last year (which means I was even later in practice).
So the first round of things listed as "6-8 weeks before last frost" are in little pots in the back room. I'm trying to stage things somewhat this year, so we don't get everything maturing at once. We'll see how that works out.
So today's plantings are:
Flowers
"Last frost" is supposedly mid-April, which matches last year, which is all I have to go on in personal experience here. That puts me a month earlier than I thought last year (which means I was even later in practice).
So the first round of things listed as "6-8 weeks before last frost" are in little pots in the back room. I'm trying to stage things somewhat this year, so we don't get everything maturing at once. We'll see how that works out.
So today's plantings are:
Flowers
- forget-me-nots (for suileach, to fill out the bed by the front door which is mostly bare). There's supposedly 100 seeds in the packet, but they are so small, there's no way to separate them, so I've no idea how many we'll get.
- Two black-eyed susan vines
- Six lupine. Last year they didn't do very well, but I planted them directly as it was late. Hopefully they'll do better for being planted indoors first and having better soil, at least for the first few weeks of life.
- Yellow Onion (x4)
- Red Onion (x4)
- Broccoli (x2). Last year the broccoli didn't do well. They were planted too late and bolted before they developed heads of any size. This year they'll go out earlier and have a layer of compost to go on the bed.