There are about a hundred potted perennials out on my front lawn right now as the latest wintry mix hits our area, and someone dropped off a huge box of cell trays and small pots to us yesterday. Some of them will go to our local library for their gardeners workshops and to prep for their annual plant sale fundraiser, some will go to the Master Gardeners program for their spring fundraiser, and I will attempt to find space for what we end up keeping.
What’s growing on with you all?
I’ve got daffodils popping up, and about 40 tulips I planted last fall
I love seeing the daffs, they’ll even poke through the snow to tell you spring is just around the corner
My wife grew a person this winter, so I haven’t been able to even clean out last years leftovers from my greenhouse yet, but two of my spice plants (not sure if it’s the right term) has sprouted again on their own (Oregano and Chives) 🥳 And I started housing a grape last year that I hope has survived winter, just have to remember watering it and repot it if I can find the time for it. My mother will probably bring me some tomato and chili sprouts if I ask her, she always ends up with way too many of both 😅
Harvested some asparagus and solomon’s seal shoots the other day, they were delicious. Dogwoods are leafing out and some early iris blooms are opening. Most daffodils have lost their petals. My fava beans don’t look so great, I think I planted them in too much woodchip mulch. They have flowers, though. I was debating fertilizing them with urine - any thoughts? I generally avoid fertilizing legumes, but the thick woodchip mulch might be an exception?
Diluted urine would likely be okay, lots of nitrogen and a decent source of trace elements to boot. It’s definitely been a boon in some of our heavily wood chipped gardens
Nice, any thoughts about fertilizing fava beans in particular? I have heard that nitrogen fertilizers cause poor yields for legumes. Maybe it’s poor yields either way at this point, so I might as well try 😅
Phosphorus is what you really want for better fruit set, and the normal range present in urine is 68-874mg/g in males and 56-846mg/g in females, so you’ll be supporting that aspect of their development as well.
Still a little too early here in Maine. We’re bracing for a huge winter storm that will bring us 20 inches over the next couple of days.
However, by next week it will all be gone since the temps will rise into the mid 60s.
Looking forward to spring and growing vegetables in my garden (tomatoes, cucumbers, and other typical salad making items).
Oh lawd, she comin
(we’re the orange dot down by Wells and Kittery, in the Berwicks). But I have a suspicion you’re going to get it worse than we do.
We are going to get pummeled. 55 mph wind gusts! Power outages! YEAH! Although, we have a whole house generator.
Those are nice, we’re still trying to gather the money to do one of those or a battery bank for our solar panels, but both are pricey. At the moment we just have a small genny to run the fridge and the well pump
I’m excited that my saffron bulbs overwintered. I’m growing in containers in NYC (7b). We’ll see if they survive the summer!
Fingers crossed for you, that’s awesome! A buddy near me went hard ordering saffron this past autumn but we have some time to go before they’ll pop
