Here we are in week ten, and time is just zipping by. It was a crazy week, it seems as though most of it was spent shoveling snow instead of working with flowers but Ole Mother Nature is having fun playing with us, and we have to roll with the punches she gives us.
The tulips are at least keeping on schedule. If you can believe this, after tomorrow’s crate pull, I will have only six crates of tulips left in the bulb room! Wow! Don’t worry, this does not mean the end of the tulips is near. Oh no….It takes about four weeks from when they get pulled into the dirty room until they bloom, soooo, there are still going to be plenty of tulips. I would say until June? Because once the forced ones are done, the ground tulips will be coming into flower. That is just an estimated guess. By then the peonies will be rocking on and the tulips will just be a vision of a spring gone.
If Ole Man Winter can stay away for a week I can finally get the high tunnel planted. I have lots of sprouted ranunculus that are ready to go into the ground as well as the first batch of stock, with many more cool flowers to be following in a week or two. The next big seeding is also going to happen this week. More cool flowers and sweet peas! I just love sweet peas. Once I get them seeded into the trays the space will be filled up again. The last of the ranunculus corms will be soaked once the sprouted ones are planted out and these won’t be sprouted. At least I don’t think so. I have to watch my timing. It’s three months from planting to flowering, and they baulk at being hot. Will we be hot in three months time? Only time will tell.
I will leave you here. I have to put the pajamas around the babies in the greenhouse. Until next week. Allie
How can you not love that tulip?
Allie