3/18/16

We cannot change yesterday or begin tomorrow until it is here. So the only thing for you and me to do is to make today as best as can be.

 Clouds, 33 degrees, a light north breeze that will increase to a stiff breeze this afternoon with a high of 38 and a low of 18 tonight.  Partly cloudy tomorrow with a NW wind, a high of 38 and a low of 15.  Sunny on Sunday with a light NE breeze, a high of 38  and a low of 24.  3-5 inches of snow on Monday with a NNW wind, a high of 34 and a low of 21.  Partly cloudy Tuesday, even windier, with a high of 31 and a low of 13.  AM snow showers Wednesday with a south breeze, a high of 40 and a low of 31.  A continued south breeze Thursday with a high of 50 and a low of 32.  Partly cloudy Good Friday with a WNW breeze, a high of 52 and a low of 35. Showers Saturday with a SSE breeze, a high of 51 and a low of 38.  Cloudy Easter Sunday with a NW breeze, a high of 48 and a low of 32.  Partly cloudy Monday with a WNW breeze, a high of 50 and a low of 32.  Showers the rest of the week with highs around fifty and lows in the mid thirties.

     I an trying to concentrate on the weather report from next Wednesday on!  The weather between now and then is just a bump in the road.  Enough of a bump so that I'm going to roll up the hose and take it inside.  I'll water today and even though we are crowded I'll store as much water as I can and hope I can get by without running water until next Wednesday.  There doesn't look like very much sun which will help with the water but the pansies need some sun to be in bloom for Easter.  There is a dusting of white on the ground this morning to usher in these  5 days of winter.

     The last boxes of plugs and cuttings came (until May when the mums come)  late yesterday.  When they are planted there will hardly be room to walk in the greenhouse.  But next Wednesday the "million bell" petunias go out to the little green house and the Osteospermums go in the hoop house.  I will be keeping the temperature in the greenhouse warm for peppers and tomatoes, those flowers and some others don't like that.  If the pansies are in bloom they will go outside, other wise to the back room.  The perennials will go into the perennial cold frame and the greenhouse will be ready to refill again.

     I always put tubs of compost in the hoop house in the fall so I can pot some perennials in March.  Last year we sold so far down on perennials that I've started many more than I usually do.  It is so nice that the compost pile is thawed.  When we run out of compost I can just get some more.  All the new perennials will be in 600s, ready to grow and bloom this summer.  Two large orders of perennial plants will come the third week in April.  They are perennials that I can't start from seed.

     Have a good day, Sally