.....and the only medication is planting some seeds!!! I started a tray of 23 different varieties of peppers on 2/3/2013. Not every variety has germinated, but I have a good amount of baby pepper plants! Its so much fun to go down to the basement daily and check to see what has changed. I have set up my time lapse camera which is taking a photo once a day, so I'll create a video from that in a month or so. Here is some photos of the peppers as they are today (2/12/13).
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About 75% of these are hot peppers. =) My gardening friends on Your Garden Show didn't
nickname me "Pepper Queen" for nothing last year... have to work hard to keep my title!! |
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These are bell peppers - King of the North (green ones on right) and Black Hungarian (darker one on left)
King of the North is supposed to be a great heirloom for us Northern pepper growers. |
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| Love this macro lens photo of the Lemon Drop hot pepper. |
My seed purchases this year came from 2 sources: the D. Landreth Seed company which is THE oldest seed company in the US (1794!) and almost went out of business so was doing my part to help keep a part of American Gardening history alive (
www.landrethseeds.com).
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| Landreth seed order |
My biggest seed order was my fav Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Co. (
www.rareseeds.com), their annual seed catalog is gardeners heaven... and a great coffee table book with all the great photography of rare varieties in it.
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| Baker Creek seed order |
Today was a nice sunny day with high temp of about 40, so walked around outside trying to find signs of Spring - which is 35 days away!
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| Tulips |
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| Columbine starting to show new growth! |
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| Lilacs budding out. |
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| Forsythia buds |
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| Narcissus/Daffodil and Glory-of-the-Snow in the back |
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| Weeping Pussy Willow has catkins already |
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| Chives coming back by the back door |
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| Sedum starting to pop their heads out. |
The next project I will have on my hands is to add wooden sides to the rest of my garden beds. I will be removing more wood panels from the red barn to use, hopefully that will give me enough so I don't have to buy more boards. Its still really wet right now, so will have to put down lots of newspaper in the paths if I try to start digging the sides. I need to thrown on some cover crop seeds (oats & field peas) for the beds that will have the later planted crops like peppers and tomatoes.
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| 2 beds have the sides, 7 more beds to go... |
The celery made it thru this winter with flying colors in the cold frame!! I had chopped it all down to the ground so it actually grew quick a bit in there!
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I was super happy that I had no issues with the winds taking off
the tops of the cold frame, surprised actually! |
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| Found one of last years oregano plants made it thru the winter without any protection! |
Wish I could say that the rest of the winter would be nice and sunny with temps in the 40's like today, but I know better.... in fact I wouldn't be surprised if we still get more snow (grh). But seeing the changes in things outside make me know Spring is indeed near, and I can't wait to be busy working in my yard till its dark out with lots of dirt under my nails! Its the time of year I look forward to the most! The rebirth of things that once looked dead, and even more so, the rebirth of my soul.
