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Ah yes, Spring has sprung! Trees are in bud and the geese are heading north! Next up will be the peeper frogs and morel mushrooms. For me this is the best time of the year! Everything is coming back to life. The winter snooze is all but over. Lets hope for no heavy frosts!
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From your lips! Mornin’ Pa!
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Yeah, we just do it earlier than you do. We have been glorious for days (except the tornado day).
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Just beginning up here by Pittsburgh. Our supposed last frost date is around mid May! I like to cheat a bit and start a couple (few) weeks early. Hard to hold back when the daily high gets into the 60’s and 70’s. Trout season really gets the juices flowing in me! Hard as all get out to hold back!
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You can always start frost hardy plants like peas, lettuce, beets and carrots. In fact, they like to be started now before the hot weather.
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Mornin’ y’all!
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Toooo funny!
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Mornin’ Mom!
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Good afternoon, Wee!
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Hiya Stella!
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Love those memes!
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Mornin’ Wee, Pa, and everyone. It finally rained a little yesterday afternoon and then last night. I didn’t collect much water in my rain gauge. It was 62* when I took Loki for her walk this morning and 66* when I got back after a few minutes. So the sun is doing its job. Not much interesting news from here. I did find out why the trash was being left in my trash can outside. I put it in a trash bag, seal it up, put it in the can and put the lid on it. They guy who picks it up doesn’t take the lid off. However, my neighbors’ trash which is right next to mine and was piled up, some in loose bags and some just loose, and he got all of that. I called to him because I went out and checked after he walked by and he came back and got it, but I guess he just figured there was nothing in my can because the lid was on it or something. Not many people can put the lid on their because they have too much in it. Anyway, with that exciting news I will sign out for now. Hope your days are nice.
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May that be the most exciting news for you today!
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Mornin’ all, sunny to start the day temps in the mid 40’s, gonna maybe touch 50 then head down to possible snow showers, low in the mid 30’s, by tomorrow morning. Don’t mind a light frost, Mother Nature is pretty hardy, just don’t want that deep freeze this late. Kinda ruins the beauty of Spring.
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We are going to get some cold nights the next few days, but nothing here yet to be spoiled. Spring is definitely on the way, though.
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I am trying to get ahead of spring and have determined that I’m going to attempt to grow some seedings that will be transplantable when the whether outside warms up.
Long story short, I need to keep the kittehs out of the seedling and czarina gave me a great idea of using chicken wire, but alas, I didn’t have any small holed chicken wire and alas, I couldn’t find the microwave stand that I thought I still had.
So, new plan. I have a plant stand that I made years ago and I think I can modify it to work as the frame for a small growing space BUT, I was still back to the dilemma that I didn’t have any way to let the sun in and keep the kittehs out……SO..I decided that netting would work, right? Well, yeah, I didn’t have any netting, I have more string than any person should have and I thought, well, I can make my own netting right? I mean seriously, I asked myself,”How hard could it be?”
And that dear Stellarites is how I find myself tying my 900th million knot today while wondering if I’ll be done by next winter, let along this spring…but I am determined to grow something…so we shall see. :0)
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Three years ago I did a makeshift seed starting station on my slate covered sideboard, which is up against a large window. I used cardboard panels taped together to keep the cat out, and used wine bottles to prop up my grow lights.
Not a great solution and the cat only got a couple of tomato seedlings! Now I have my little table top greenhouse. It also keeps the heat and humidity in, so that is a plus.
Another thing I have used outside (but it would work inside too), is a large clear storage box turned upside down over the plants. Quick, easy, and fairly inexpensive.
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Another thing that I used is a boot tray under my plants to contain any spilled water and dirt. I got mine from Amazon, but I’m sure they are available many places.
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I just used a clear underbed storage box as a humidity dome over my seeds while they were sprouting.
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The clear underbed storage box was what I had also planned to use, but the one’s I have are a little to large for the frame I’m working with, so I think I’ll recycle my clear water bottles and cut those down to use as my humity domes….
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That would work. Also clear gallon milk/water jugs. I’ve seen the Amish farmers use them outside to protect their plants too.
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I watched a video on seed starting, and a warming mat was mentioned. I’m doing the seed starting kit with twenty pods. I placed a heating pad on low under it. In four days my tomatoes, basil, zucchini, and cucumber were nicely sprouted. No signs of the sweet green peppers yet. I love my fresh tomatoes!!
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I have a heating mat. It’s not necessary, but speeds up germination. Peppers are notoriously slow/difficult to germinate. Congratulations!
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PS: My broccoli rabe germinated in two days this year. I couldn’t believe it was so fast.
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Rocco like and bean sprouts are soooo easy. I used to do them in a jar on the windowsill for salads.
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Broccoli not Rocco like
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Sad commentary.
https://twitter.com/RebelSinCause/status/1507093914779627530?s=20&t=WL-c-F675w-2kDUQ0RV3Hg
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