Everything in the yard is budding. I don't care how much snow is still on the ground, it's spring. I will get my seedlings going as soon as I have all the starter seed. I'm eating spring honey from our local beekeeper. (If you have allergies, this is a way to build up immunity to your local pollen. Find a beekeeper near you and ask for spring honey!)
We're planning the garden. Went over hoop house plans last night. The cat is spending more time outside; the winter days of "NO thank you, my nose just froze" are past. (Seriously. On cold days we'd open the door for him, he'd sniff, back up, and go lay down someplace warm.) Birds are flocking around the trees; we need to get the bird house up so somebody can build a nest in it.
Also on my spring to do list; get done with books. Because once summer is here, I don't know how much I'll be working. Kids will be home all day, and we'll have activities going on, and I'm not sure I want to add deadlines to that. More books can get written in the fall.
Are you full of spring fever and itching to do everything on your list?
It's too early for me to get
It's too early for me to get spring fever yet. Until the calendar says April the buds won't even consider poking their noses out. And I don't blame them. *g*
Sounds like you have wonderful plans for sping and summer. You'll have to keep us up-to-date on your garden. I can't wait to see what you grow.
We were having 40 degree days
We were having 40 degree days in February, so spring had time to get underway.
I'll be taking lots of garden pictures. And blogging about my adventures in learning to can my own tomato sauce.
Too cold here still for
Too cold here still for anything outdoors, but the missus has started some stuff inside in one of those little peat-pot starter thingamabobs. She's also got some "drought tolerant" garden stuff coming that will be planted in May (she and her friends do some yard-garden stuff every memorial day). I've got to get the new square foot garden boxes in before then (have two already, adding two or three more this year), likely in April when we stop getting bad frosts. Still trying to figure out what will work well, the zuchini and leaf lettuce work great, peppers and beans not so much. Tomatos are a possibility, but we didn't get anything last year except buds...neighbors did though, so we must have been doing something wrong.
Jester, sounds like something
Jester, sounds like something ate your tomatoes. You might try planting marigolds around your tomatoes to repel insects. You can also use diluted dish soap on your plants to get rid of bugs.
It's too cold to plant outdoors here too, but it's the perfect time to start seedlings inside and get cold frames going!
Nah, nothing nibbling on
Nah, nothing nibbling on them, the fruit just never set...the plants grew great (we got two of those upside down planter thingies), and we had plenty of blooms, but nothing ever got beyond the bloom stage.
The only thing we really had eating plants was some deer in the middle of the night. We ended up using some "blood stakes" (not sure what they're called...plastic containers of dried blood that you stake out every 6 feet or so...freaks the deer out nicely without harming anything or having to spray anything on the plants), those worked great to keep them out of the lettuce and radishes.
Blood stakes = smart
Blood stakes = smart gardening! You might've had too much of your plant's growth going to support the greenery, then. Prune a little and see if you can't direct more of the growth into fruit production. You might also experiment with different tomato varieties, see what other gardeners are using in your area.
I think the missus has all
I think the missus has all that on her list to do...I try to stay away from the green and growing things, since it seems that I can turn them all brown just by looking in their general direction, except where the grass is concerned :P
We had snow last night. Snow
We had snow last night. Snow in March? This is just flippin' nuts. I am so ready for spring.
P.S. I thought I had spring fever, but it turned out to be bronchitis. bleh.
Ann, I doubt we've had our
Ann, I doubt we've had our last snow flurry or frost, but the change is underway. Take care of yourself, everybody here had a nasty bout of bronchitis in February. It's miserable. Rest and recuperate. Read lots of books.