Yay! It is nearly here, the day that the first crates of tulips get pulled out of the cooler and into the dirty room. I have been slaving away the last two days tidying up, making space and just getting ready. Besides the four weekly crates that will be getting pulled, I will also be pulling a crate of narcissus and eventually crates of hyacinths. The hyacinths need a few more weeks of chill time but soon.
So this is an experiment this year forcing narcissus and hyacinths. First it depends if I can pull this off. No reason I shouldn’t be able to but I always worry, and the biggest question how will they be received by my lovely flower people. The cost of tulip bulbs is just going up and up, and I want to be able to offer other spring flowers to help relieve the winter blues, or whites depending on the day.
The perennials have been sown, now it’s a waiting game for germination. They do take their time it seems. The cool annuals get sown the week after next. I still have to get the tunnel ready for those seedlings but I have time yet. My first oops of the year is not cleaning the tunnel back in November when I had nice weather because the ranunculus and anemone corms are still in the beds and with all this cold weather they more than likely are smelt. Damn. Luckily I have enough I had saved from last year that were in crates, but the nice ones in the tunnel…well…It is supposed to be above freezing this week for a few days so I guess I will dig around and see if I can salvage anything. Ugh.
Everything is ordered for this year’s growing. All the seeds are here, the shrubs have been ordered, chrysanthemums ordered, willows ordered and the last? of the perennials have been ordered. It is going to be one busy spring. It will be an exciting and busy spring. Bring it on, I am ready!
That is enough for now, I will be back next week to regale you with more happenings at Lottarock. Until then,
Allie
I dream of flowers, do you?