What a turn of weather! But that is March for you. Wintery crap on Wednesday and Thursday to today mostly sunny and temperatures in the mid 50’s. Talk about a radical change in just a few days. The driveway is mostly open again, the roof is clear of snow and rocks are appearing. Slowly.
The tulips harvest is going well. After tomorrows tulip pull into the dirty room I will have two more weeks of crates to go! Don’t worry, this is not the end of tulip season. From the time I pull the crates in it takes about four weeks to get them to bloom. This means that there will be tulips at least until the end of April if not longer, and those are just the forced tulips. Then we have the 2200? in ground tulips that usually bloom around mothers day, weather cooperating. So not to worry, there will be plenty of tulips through June and probably until the peonies bloom.
I have run out of places to put my seedlings. The rack is full but I am hoping that tomorrow, with the fine weather to lasting until Thursday when the nights begin to go below freezing again I can get some of the cool flower and perennial babies out into the greenhouse. They will have to have protection at night, but I am running out of options. Once the ranunculus and anemones sprout they will get planted into the used tulip crates and out into the greenhouse. Flower tetris at it’s best.
Soon I hope I can begin my multiple circuits around the gardens watching the evolution of spring but I don’t think that will happen for a week or two, but who knows. I am certainly ready to smell the damp earth and get my hands into the soil.
So I can’t pass you off to Steve tonight cause he’s in Austin TX, so you will have to put up with my proofreading and possible entry ditty.
Until next week, Allie. I dream of flowers, do you?