OT - THIS is spring?

amandainvermont

amandainvermont

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Some of you (Jen?) can commiserate. This is a photo of some shade benches where I put perennials for sale. You can see the benches on the right, but the pathway and benches on the left are covered with snow. The other morning it was 10 below zero. I NEED a fuel bill fairy. :money: I will also show a pix of inside the greenhouse right now.

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ohhhh the greenhouse is lovely!

did I ever mention Dutch and I have been working on an orchard the last few years?

we have figs, apples, pears, plums, blueberries, rapsberries and strawberries
 
Oh, yeah, I can relate! Nothing but snow here, not pretty snow but brown snow, black stratified roadside snow, weird snow shapes like camels appearing as it melts... oh, and MUD. Lots of gooey mud. Wet door sills. Ruts in the road. Bleck. :booze:


Jen
 
Ahhhh, the greenhouse. A symbol of optomism and hope...and forethought and preparedness! Are those wee baby melon plants in front there? Ohhh, fresh melon warmed by the sun :P (can't find a drooling smiley, so a slurping one will do!)

Amanda...have you checked into some of the alternate heating options for greenhouses? There are some studies about having composting bins inside a hoop house, where the compost heat will help to warm from below. The solar energy keeps the rot going, which makes heat, which makes warm in the house, which makes more rotting.....just add water and fresh materials and turn.

Also, there was a story the other day that I saw, about a local dude doing cool season veg growing in his hoop house during the winter. He sold to local restaurants when they couldn't get anything else locally grown because of weather. He didn't use any secondary heat sources. (I know you are a tad colder than us here in MO)
Random garden thoughts!

I went out to thin some trees over some of my park beds yesterday and the park guys were doing a controlled burn down in the gullies. Ack. Sputter. Cough.
I was out of there fast! Don't need to inhale burning poison ivy branches when I can break out just looking at the stuff!
 
YESterday afternoon it was in the 40's here, so i went around the house and cooed and smiled at all the lovely tulips (up 6" already in some places) and my naked ladies (already a foot plus high!), columbine and sedum coming in...pulled away some dead leaves, got my fingers dirty (LOVE the smell of spring dirt!!)

then, in the middle of the night, i heard sleet/hail hitting the windows, i about cried. then it let up, so i hoped for the best, and woke up to about 3" of new fricking snow

i LOVE November snow, but March snow sucks.:flaming:

love your greenhouse, btw, Amanda!

and Beth, your orchard sounds heavenly!! are they all bearing fruit already??
 
No More Snow!

We actually got to play outside yesterday. Trimmed up the dead leaves around the house beds! And got out the hanging pots and filled them with dirt. And even got out the patio furniture so we could wash it soon. It was the first day dry enough to walk out there in forever.

Then it rained all night and again today. It will be weeks before we can plant anything out there.

Hollis
 
I see geraniums in your lovely greenhouse, Amanda! :wub:

I wish NYC had had MORE snow this winter. It was 60 yesterday and the daffodils are out now.

This has been the least winter-ish winter I have ever experienced in my entire life. I like winter to be WINTER, but without 7 months of snow heaps - maybe 3. :snowman:

Janine
 
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