gardening season opener

I wonder ow that would hold up with our 70 MPH (one time 105 MPH) winds?

Pretty rare here. Plan is simple since we do get gusts in 50's.

We took 6 full sized cinderblocks and heavy line through the holes then drilled larger holes where needed through a wood fence piece in still decent shape (4ft x 6ft). We tighed that line through the bottom frame in all 6 spots. Heavy wind, take plants in and remove cover. Anything that can dirupt that will leave us with no concern for a 60$ greenhouse because we'll have worse things to deal with.

Nice.

With our (90%) frost date (allegedly) being April 15th, I filled out some seed trays yesterday for planting out in the garden in a few weeks. Not a whole lot to speak of -- some lettuces and swiss chard to try, plus some chives. A few cells have been commandeered by the kiddos for sunflowers as well, so that should be fun for them.

pests.

Oh. thats a 6ft fence piece that is 8ft long, cut in half.

None of my seeds show sigh of life yet. (dripping tears)

I've got 25 taters (of 40 planted) peeping thru , plus red beets , bok choy , spinach , and today I saw the first strawberry blossom . Everything but the strawberries was planted outdoors starting on 2/24 . Looks like I need some new lettuce seed , doesn't look like any of what I planted germinated .

Forgot to mention the red/yellow/orange bell pepper and 3 kinds of tomato seedlings in trays in the dining room window ... other stuff to start closer to last frost date .

Good bit of stuff for the garden from the sounds of it. Don't have too much sun here (trees shade the yard quite well), but leafy things did pretty okay last year, as did radishes and other "quick-harvest" things like that.

Though I think my main problem is "poor soil" -- I did comparatively little there, as I want to take it slow to give myself time to learn and also time for the plots themselves to get their own soil life, etc.

we've gone back to colder again, like this morning when i went to take the trash out there's a little snow on the ground and it was cold enough overnight to refreeze the surface. there won't be any gardening done here today...

yeah...

songbird

Must've been the same weather system as here. Got about, ehh, an inch maybe. Good thing it got cold and gross outside before the kiddos and I got any farther than "removed the old stalks and such that we left for over-wintering useful insects" over the weekend.

I hope this passes pretty quick like, I've got way more to do!