Yesterday I bought heirloom seeds for our test garden up north – pickling plume lettuce, scarlet kale, asparagus, echinacea, zebrina hollyhock (one of my all time favorites), and some more milkweed. I’m getting excited to get started. It feels a bit like old times when I had seed starting trays by our west facing patio door. I suppose I will start the seeds indoors again, but will wait for a month or so. My guess is we won’t plant up there until the end of May or even early June.
Yesterday I also did some “indoor gardening” on the shamrocks and the amaryllis. The shamrocks are the healthiest they have ever looked in March.
Usually by this time at the end of winter they are very scraggly and I can hardly wait to get get them back outside in April so the birds pluck away all the dried stems in between the live ones and use them for their nests. This year it may be a bit longer.
The amaryllis did not bloom for the second year in a row. I suspect I should follow best practices going forward and put it in a dry dark place for a few months. I am, however, tempted to send it to compost in the spring, along with a leggy succulent. We’ll see.
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