What is with this weather? Now winter seems to be here. Hopefully by the end of next week the nights will moderate. I don’t mind nights in the 20’s, the plants get covered with what I refer to as their pajamas, but getting down into the single digits and below gets this flower farmer worried. Now my big plan of getting the high tunnel planted on March 1 will have to wait till the end of the week. It’s gotta happen fast because I am really running out of places to put the new seedlings….This time of year, until everything gets planted out is always a growers shuffle. I should write a song, the gardener’s shuffle…
The tulips are going gang busters. This last week’s and next week’s offerings are Columbus, that is the double one, Jumbo Pink, and Tom Puce. All stunning
The long awaited parrot that was supposed to be in last week’s mix will be in this coming batch and though his stems are skinny, (so just a warning), there might be some artistic movement going on is…Prof. Rontgartn.
The second batch of ranunculus are starting to sprout and and anemones are just starting to show life. These flats will get hauled out on Wednesday to harden off before the big planting, then the last batch will get soaked and directly planted sometime mid March? We will see.
I have been busily catching up on creating crop spreadsheets. YUCK! That and catching up on the flower conference I didn’t get to in August. So I am deep in the throes of winter learning while I can because come April 1 this flower farmer plans to be so busy. Steve will have to take up cooking. (An early April Fools joke, Steve cooking).
Until next week, my flower friends. Think tulips. Allie