Its Monday morning and I am monitoring the news websites for updates on the latest winter storm. It was snowing so hard I couldn't see across the street when I came in but this should be a mild storm. Mild... and I couldn't see across the street... Thats the kind of winter it's been. Generally, the only thing good about February is that we are a month closer to spring but I just found one more reason to be excited about February... Seeds were available to buy this weekend!!! After a nightmare grocery store trip on Saturday (truly horrible! there was a yelling scene in the produce section & cart jams so bad you literally could not move at times) - P and I ventured to Walmart and parked next to the garden center where I happened to notice a small aisle of seed packets!!! Hooray! The first batch is in and the selection was still pretty good!! I'm trying to pace myself- I'm sure I'll need a pick-me-up again soon... when the next storm hits... This time I got green beans, snap peas, yellow squash and grape tomatoes.
I have to confess... I also sketched out the garden plan this weekend. Its probably way too early for that. Maybe not, though. Right now, the plan is to add cayenne, jalapeno & bell peppers outside and cilantro, italian parsley, spinach and iceberg lettuce inside. (lettuce will be in a container outside some of the time). That leaves a considerable amount of room in the garden (I'm only doing about 5 plants of each this year), so I'm trying to decide if I am going to put in a root garden in the fall with onions, carrots & garlic or try melons again. I need to find out if I can do both. I won't plant the roots till fall so I might be able to do early melons in the spring/summer and then plant roots over them but I dont know if that will work. I guess that means I have some research to do! :) See, February is looking brighter!
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