Hello everyone! I hope you all had a great Easter and a relaxing holiday weekend. After hearing the weather forecast last night and looking outside today, I was saying to myself “I thought it was supposed to be Spring?” Yesterday, it was fairly nice and normal for our Springs. There was some on and off rain and it was in the mid-40s which is it what it typically is like. Then when I awoke and took a look outside here is what I saw.
Yep, you guess it snow. Somewhere in the range of 3-5 inches, but that is okay because tomorrow we are supposed to get in the upper 60s for a day. We have been mainly dealing with several inches of rain and it has made the ground extremely saturated for the last couple of weeks with no end to the rain in the near future. We like to get our potatoes and onion sets out around Good Friday every year, but, because of how saturated the ground is and not getting a chance for the ground to dry out, they will have to go out much later.
Since the weather has not cooperated outside, I have still been working on getting my seed starts growing and doing well. The only new thing that I have gotten in the ground since my last update were a few more onions and some watermelon radishes. So far all the seeds are doing very well. I still have to get some broccoli and cauliflower started, but for the most part a majority of the planting is done.
The next step this week is to get my plants in bigger pots/containers, so that they do not get root bound. This is an issue that I think has caused problems in the past, by ultimately stunting the plants growth potential. Knowing that I will be transplanting soon, I am trying to get together a good compost to really get the plants to take off. I have heard about things like alfalfa meal, but never tried it before and was thinking about incorporating that in the compost. Usually, we use things like our rabbit manure. What do you all like to use?
I am know that I have not been posting as much lately, but with the weather slowly getting better, I am hoping to get more put up on steemit. Thanks for reading and stopping by!