5/3/16

For a happier life give thanks for something positive every day.

  A wonderful night of needed rain!  38 degrees, calm with light fog/mist.  Cloudy today with a NE breeze, a high of 56 and a low of 40. (No more of that 30 stuff!)  Mostly cloudy tomorrow with an ENE breeze, a high of 59 and a low of 42.  Showers Thursday with a stiff NE breeze, a high of 55 and a low of 41.  Partly cloudy Friday with a NE breeze, a high of 64 and a low of 44.  Showers Saturday and Sunday.  A SE breeze Saturday with a high of 66 and a low of 45.  A SSW breeze Mother's Day with a high of 59 and a low of 40.  Partly cloudy Monday with a west wind, a high of 62 and a low of 42.  Partly cloudy Tuesday with a stiff west breeze,a high of 68 and a low of 43.  Mostly sunny next Wednesday and Thursday with west breezes,  highs of 69 and  lows of 47.  Some showers Friday, the 13th, through Monday, the 16th, with highs around 66 and lows in the upper forties,  Clearing Tuesday, the 17th, with a high of 68.

    A dry day yesterday had me scared this rain would pass us by.  We still need more but we got enough to make a difference.  About an inch.  i mulched the onions with straw in the mist yesterday afternoon so it was wet down.  Today we are going to mulch the potatoes with hay and hopes Wednesday's showers will wet it down.

    This is also moving day for many plants. Fortunately I have lots of help coming today.  Perennials will be moved out of a cold frame, tender annuals put in their place.  Usually broccoli, cabbage and the like go in that cold frame.  But because this is late they are going in the back room where the extra warmth will make them grow faster.  Lots of flowers will be going out on the display benches.  We have more tomatoes, peppers and flowers  to transplant so the greenhouse will still be very full.

      Gilbert planted his cucumber, watermelon etc. yesterday.  He will be setting them out under wire hoops and remay.  He planted a few for me.  I've some hoops to set up but that takes time.  I'll be planting  pots of those seeds this week for myself and for sale.  I put most of mine out a little later and just put remay over the plants.  The earliest most people set them out is Memorial week end or the first week in June.  There is a full moon the 21st.

       It is time to put out hummingbird feeders.  The fourth is the earliest I've ever seen one but I like to make sure food is available if they are early.  The latest I've seen them come is about the 12th.  It is cool enough so I'm not worried about the food fermenting or molding.  We are having to feed the bees, they don't like to fly at these temperatures.

      Have a good day, Sally