Garden Show!
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solarbirdYay, gardening time! February is the beginning of soil prep time for veggie gardening. You can actually plant some stuff now, if you want; in fact, there are a small assortment of things you can go ahead and plant now, particularly if you have a cold frame. But even then, it's better to spend this time prepping your soil, waiting a week or two, doing some more prep, waiting a week or two, then planting in March and April and May. What I did this time was pull off some of the leaves, hoe the partially-decomposed leaves left behind into the soil, and add fish oil and dolomite lime for Ph balance. That'll take a couple of weeks.
If you don't have or don't want to use a cold frame, you're better off waiting until next month for soil prep, unless you want to plant snow peas or another very-early cold-weather crop.
I also did a lot of cleanup in back, giving the new giant loppers a little bit of a workout. They worked great; I've cleared most of the volunteer shoots away from up against the retaining wall, and our apple and pear trees should get a bit more light this year. Plus, I peeled back all the #*@&$(!!! english ivy again. So that's all for the good.
Meanwhile, it's almost time for the Northwest Flower and Garden Show, downtown at the convention centre! I always go. Anybody wanna meet up down there and/or go with?
[Poll #924990]
Oh, and since I'm posting: we went out tonight with a few people and saw Pan's Labyrinth, which, while dark, was actually less dark than I expected. It's a well made movie, to be sure, but the mythological half of the movie rather disappointed, leaving me feeling rather too much like I'd been handed a paint-by-numbers kit. There were places it could have gone which would have been more interesting - to me, anyway - but it didn't happen, so I was sad. And the portion set in Spain pulled a punch or two that I wouldn't have pulled at the end. Still, I enjoyed the interplay between the two sets of structures and rather liked how those parallel parts played against each other, so that was nice, and I liked the sets and the performances, so that's all for the good.
Mmm, sleepy now. Vote in my poll!
If you don't have or don't want to use a cold frame, you're better off waiting until next month for soil prep, unless you want to plant snow peas or another very-early cold-weather crop.
I also did a lot of cleanup in back, giving the new giant loppers a little bit of a workout. They worked great; I've cleared most of the volunteer shoots away from up against the retaining wall, and our apple and pear trees should get a bit more light this year. Plus, I peeled back all the #*@&$(!!! english ivy again. So that's all for the good.
Meanwhile, it's almost time for the Northwest Flower and Garden Show, downtown at the convention centre! I always go. Anybody wanna meet up down there and/or go with?
[Poll #924990]
Oh, and since I'm posting: we went out tonight with a few people and saw Pan's Labyrinth, which, while dark, was actually less dark than I expected. It's a well made movie, to be sure, but the mythological half of the movie rather disappointed, leaving me feeling rather too much like I'd been handed a paint-by-numbers kit. There were places it could have gone which would have been more interesting - to me, anyway - but it didn't happen, so I was sad. And the portion set in Spain pulled a punch or two that I wouldn't have pulled at the end. Still, I enjoyed the interplay between the two sets of structures and rather liked how those parallel parts played against each other, so that was nice, and I liked the sets and the performances, so that's all for the good.
Mmm, sleepy now. Vote in my poll!
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