Warm night here, still 64 degrees out, in February. House temp is 72 and for sure the heat hasn't turned on. When I wake up and the bedroom is that warm (normally a few degrees cooler not by intent but poor insulation at very end of house...
) I knew it had been warm out for awhile.
I'm having a little problem with my peas. They are magic beans. Growing several inches per day they are going to grow out of my sunroom...
I swear I turn around and they are an inch taller. In between the rain this weekend going to plant them in my little garden. I can throw a sheet over them if a hard freeze comes in. Which I know it will....we get suckered by all this heat and plant things and then bemoan the freeze.
I hear that a lot here...well, I had to replant my x, y z. Am trying to manage that by staggered planting.
Am getting a little white mold on top of some of the trays, not sure if I'm overwatering but plants are healthy as can be. The sunroom is starting to get that "greenhouse" smell. Did all the tomatoes yesterday afternoon. Over 100 tomato plants in 7 varieties, most super dark tomatoes with all the antioxidants, the Krims and similar. I intend to stuff my freezer with tomatoes for home made sauce.
If all this stuff grows going to get very interesting. Would not do this without pledge from head of local food bank that they would send volunteers to help me pick when tons of stuff come rolling in. Ha, hows's that for positive thinking. One step at a time.
Decided to make top fenced veggie garden easy to manage, will put landscape cloth down between rows with staples, and then straw around plants. No salt hay available here, need to find straw. Read enough times here NOT to use regular hay or I'll get weeds forever.
Thankfully my big fireman helper says he can come tomorrow and hopefully we will get the fencing done. It's a hard job, for sure by me doing it alone. The last time I did a big garden I did it with 4x4's ten feet high sunk into the ground two feet. This time I'm using TSC stakes. Pounding in ten foot high poles is not good for me but my helper is big and easy for him. Plastic fencing to be held on by plastic ties.
Long two row section will be fenced electrically, and in between the raindrops that's my next project too. I have 50 step on insulated stakes, this shouldn't be hard in soft sandy ground. Think I need 50 more. Was going to go ten feet between poles but think six feet would be better to control droop of the bottom wire. Don't want it touching anything but unfriendly little noses.
Let's make it a great Monday.
