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| May 12th With A Fire in the Stove May 12, 2008 08:37:09 We have a flower bed in front of the house that has some large yellow poppies. Those poppies are always blooming on my birthday which is May 5th. They are not open yet this year and today is the 13th of May. While we have had few warm days this spring our weather has mostly been cold and damp. I had some peas rot in the ground before they germinated and I am concerned about some sweet corn that I planted last week. Since we had a another big rain Saturday night it is too wet on this Monday morning to go out and try to determine what is happening with that corn. If you go by the poppy flowers you might think everything is about a week behind. But, it does not seem to be that simple. Some things have been about on schedule. Fruit trees bloomed about right and our asparagus has been up and growing and been cut enough times we have stopped eating it and now just letting it grow. My potatoes are doing just fine and I was surprised when I looked at them on Saturday how much they had grown since I took the pictures of them used in a previous post to show the mulching method I use. Some of them are almost six or more inches tall now. I have some early spinach that was planted way back on March 25th that we have been eating a little bit of but the lettuce planted right next to it seems to be growing very little. I do not want it to get hot. I do not like hot weather. But we do need some warmth and sunshine to get thing going here. I thing the soil is still pretty cold and those warm weather crops just do not do much when the ground is cold. I had a couple of green pepper plants die. I do not know why. It looked like some disease of some sort. I think they must have had something when they were planted. I put out four more pepper plants on Saturday evening right before it started to rain. In fact it was sprinkling on me while I planted them. So far I have not had any rabbit problems. I do not know why because I have seen one around in the yard repeatedly. The dogs like to chase it around the place with no chance of ever catching it although the dogs take it very seriously the rabbit seems to easily evade their efforts. A nice fresh row of green bean seedlings will likely be irresistible to any rabbit. Comment on this article | |