Yes, it has been too long. I have another hobby and that has taken the place of writing. I have been researching the family tree but the garden has started its call.
Yesterday was my birthday and on Saturday my wife and I went to the Philadelphia Flower show. I have wanted to go for years and finally did. Now that I have done it, I don't have to go again. About half was displays and the other half was vendors. It was crowded especially when people have to take a picture of their friend in front of some flowers etc and you have to walk around the person who has backed up to take their picture. Grrr.
Sunday afternoon I did work outside for a little while. I went around the yard and picked up the branches that fell during the winter.
Then I came inside and started the tomato and pepper seeds. I started three varieties of peppers (New Ace, Fat N Sassy, and Parks whopper). I planted the seeds in the cardboard/peat pots so I won't disturb the roots when I transplant so I can just plant the whole thing. The pepper pots are sitting on a seed growing heating mat and under a grow light.
I have four different varieties of tomatoes seeds planted (Celebrity, Early Girl, Juliette and Park's Whopper). They are also in peat pots and under grow lights.
Next weekend I hope to get started in the garden and till it and maybe even plant onions. I have to get the onions first as well as a large bag of bone meal. I already have three 5 gallon buckets of wood ashes (from an aunt and uncle). I think I even have some left over from last year. So I will add wood ashes, bone meal and composted leaves to the garden and till it. This year I have a composted pile of leaves that I didn't use last year so I may use that instead of the pile of finely mulched leaves. Speaking of leaves I have plenty more to pick up. I wish I had one more weekend last fall to clean up the leaves and of course the winter winds brings in a bunch more. I have some daffodils wondering when I am going to take off their blanket of leaves. I also have some in bloom up next to the house.
I did hear the spring peepers one night last week, so its not too far away now.
That's right, rub it in. I still have several feet of snow and a garden is a far distant dream.
ReplyDeleteOver the summer a cousin of mine came down from Montreal. We went over some old family photos and gossip. It was a great experience, so had any good family happenings have come out of your search?
I seem to be the only one interested in my family except for the older aunts and uncles on my wife's side that don't live nearby. If I have done my research correctly, I do have some interesting family stories on my side (a Mayflower pilgrim, a scottish indentured servant granted freedom in Maine, Oliver Cromwell's army doctor fleeing with family and a possible murder of a great great great grandfather). Other than that, my children now have a boat load of cousins they never knew they had.
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