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clockworktomato

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Apr 02, 2007 09:41

You know, just when I think I'm getting the hang of this whole gardening thing, I get a lovely dose of humility to smack me in the face.

I was so, so excited to go outside and see that, after the two weeks of lovely 80+ degree weather, the Osmanthus fragrans, the plant I felt sure was on its last legs, is now covered with green leafy buds ( Read more... )

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winemedineme April 2 2007, 15:23:19 UTC

Sigh. I want to start planting too, but I'm so afraid we'll get a mid-April frost or something stupid like that. Cincinnati's been so darn unpredictable. Stupid global warming.

(P.S.-- it's Julie theunblonde.)

clockworktomato April 2 2007, 15:26:50 UTC

Oh duh! I made a mental note the other day to add your new LJ and totally forgot! *goes to add*

I'm just going to have to hold myself back next year. The garden centers are so evil and, I mean, in the capitalistic sense it works, I'm sure. "Oh, I'm sorry, you set them out too soon? Well, you'll just have to buy replacements, won't you?"

I want freshly grown basil and I want it NOW. :)

winemedineme April 2 2007, 15:36:04 UTC

I was eyeing seed packets at Meijer's yesterday. However, I realize that through May, I will generally be home and awake on average of two hours per day. In that two hours, I'll be damned if I'm gardening, quite frankly. I'll be buying a bunch of basil plants in early May, maybe THAT'll work.

silversliver April 3 2007, 01:37:05 UTC

If the temperature is only bottomng out at to 30-32F at night, you can cover them at night and uncover them when you leave for work in the morning. You can use teh sheeting you can buy at the hardware store, or just loosely wrap everything over with old bed-sheets, dropcloths, or curtains. When I started my garden too early last year (70F in mid-April for a week, then a hard frost!), I covered everything on the cold nights with a plastic tarp I made out of garbage bags and tape (I trapped a little air in the bags for insulation). It saved nearly all the sprouted plants, though not the bean or melon seeds. Lesson earned: the only things going in my central PA garden before May 1 are peas and lettuce.