The time changes this weekend?!!!!

Thanks, Maryanne. Don't know that I would have picked up that little tidbit otherwise.


We have had a couple of inches of rain over the past 48 hours and the plants are loving it. Everything has perked up and started growing. Was afraid we were going to get so much so fast that it would drown my little seedlings, but that did not turn out to be the case. Even with all the rain, the ground is moist but not muddy. It has been dry, dry, dry.

The snowpeas are emerging. More green onions are popping up. the kale and the spinach had good germination rates - still just codtyledon leaves, as it as been coolish during the day and often in the low 30's and upper 20's at night. A little more of the lettuce is up. If I get home before dark Sunday I will press more lettuce seed into the ground. I think the reason I got lousy germination with the lettuce is that after I broadcast the seed I took my hand and stirred the dirt a little instead of just pressing the seeds down, and too many of them got covered up.

I still have 1/2 flat of mixed yellow and purple violas purchased a month ago, intending to plant in strawberry pots. That probably isn't going to happen due to time constraints, but I think I'll take them up to Mom and Dad's this weekend, plant most of them in their garden, and put a couple of them in a small pot for Dad to enjoy indoors. I can plant them out in a week or so when they stop blooming from too little light.

The lavander-rimmed violas I planted in the hollow tree stump have really taken off. The Pulmonaria maeve sent late last summer is sending up lots of leaves. No sign of the bloodroot or the iris. I knew the bloodroot was iffy but am surprised the iris have not emerged. I had trouble finding time to keep the new plantings watered in, but thought the iris would make it.   There is still time. Keep your fingers crossed.

Bobert's azaleas are looking pretty darn good, as is the hellebore he gave me a few years ago. All the divisions of the stonecrop, even the tiny ones, are taking off.

The assorted daylilies are up 4-6 inches and the Single Apricot chrysanthemums are forming a dense spring ground cover. The crocus are about to bloom. Seeing lots of henbit, some purple deadnettle and wintercress blooming. I bet if I walked in woods or fields I would find dense mats of chickweed just right for salads.

Last weekend I finished cleaning up Mom and Dad's beds. Here in zone 7, peonies eyes are beginning to sprout. No sign of sprouts yet in Mom and Dad's zone 6 garden but the Stoke's Asters are sending up a lot of leaves and the day lilies are up nearly as far as here.