Thursday, April 8, 2010

It is cold again

It was a nice 80 degrees outside a few days ago, now it is down in the 50's again. I took advantage of this warm time to plant some onions sets. In my second garden, I planted red onions and noticed my sweet peas are starting to break though the ground. I may get some peas before I till them to plant a row of corn. My garlic is about 8 inches high already and my chives are already blooming. I have several more onion sets to plant but need to wait until it dries out a bit and gets a bit warmer, maybe this weekend. I will over the bed in newspaper and cover that in mulch of some manner so I don't have to bother weeding my onions over the growing season. It will still be at least 6 weeks until I plant the bulk of the garden, but for now things are looking good. The dirt is turned and tilled, and will be re-tilled every week until planting to help fend off weeds. The apple trees are blooming. Last year they did not bloom, thus we had not one apple. I am hoping if we get alot of apples this year I will try to make vinegar. My neibors pear trees are in full bloom too and I can't wait to swipe some of those.

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