Friday, 13 May 2011

Plant House

The plant house is really filling up now and I am desperate to start planting everything outside. the wind has been blowing very strongly from the east for about 10 days. Yesterday it turned to South Westerly but still too strong to plant anything out it would be smashed to bits in minuets. Meanwhile all the plants inside are growing taller and taller not good. I have nowhere to harden them off prior to planting out so the weather has to be really calm. 
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  1. mama Barr13 May 2011 at 20:01

    lovely flowers. You appear to be a whole month ahead of me. But, then again, I'm always behind the locals here, too. We start everything from seed in unprotected starter beds... more like I overplant the row and thin as necessary. Since we have the lowest property on the block, we are very susceptible to late frosts... hence, the late starting period... even later this year if we don't get the tiller fixed.
    My transplants haven't been liking the warm weather we've been having 80F/27C. All the hollyhocks finally look like they will survive. I have an echinacea or two which are struggling, but for the most part, they will survive. My two transplanted poppies are more dead than alive. And most of the coreopsis and gailardia will make it. I now have two pink asclepis (butterfly weed; and I believe the platycodon has finally made an appearance.
    I have started to work on the harvested seed aggravating my allergies in the process.
    Hope to go find the part to replace the broken belt on the tiller tomorrow. Might be able to till the flower beds which are on high ground. The low ground is still much too wet to work.
    There was a break in the weather during our warm spell and most of the farmers have been out on their fields.
    Wishing you favorable weather for planting,
    Susanna

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