UGGGGGHHHH! Winter!

[pretty40acres]

I am dying to get outside and play in the flowerbeds! :rainbow-sun This winter is really getting to me. I hope spring comes early! Anyone else?

 

[Ridgerunner]

I'm kinda waiting for winter to get here. We've has some nights down in the mid-teens Fahrenheit, but very few. I've covered a few things when the forecast is below the mid-20's and still have some fall cabbage I'm waiting to head up. I'll start some pepper seeds in another week and a half or so indoors, planning on a regular year, but I was wondering earlier today if I couldn't go ahead and start some seeds in the garden, if it dries up enough to get in there and work. Things like peas, kale, and chard? Maybe cabbage and broccoli transplants if I can find them? Some of the cool weather stuff. But then it would only take a few "average" nights to wipe it all out. I'll wait.

The garlic, onions, and leeks I planted last fall are growing. I don't even bother to cover them unless the forecast is below 20. They are lightly mulched, just a couple of inches.

Last summer was strange here, extremely hot and dry. Now the winter is strange.

I guess planning is what you do until life interrupts.

 

[lesa]

Pretty40- I am hoping for an early spring! (55 days till the official first day of spring)! Tell us about your gardens....

 

[vfem]

I so agree!

I've gone out and done pruning, weeding and turning compost into beds to keep me busy. I get to check on my cabbage, onions & garlic I planted in the fall, so that gives me something to do.

I'm reworking garden paths now, and planning for new garden spaces for next year... so I'm happy to say I've found so much to do in the winter months.

 

[pretty40acres]

We have all kinds of flowerbeds here on the farm. All animals are penned up so they can't destroy the gardens. We usually have a huge veggie garden and a smaller salad garden. I have several flower beds. 3 in front of the house, 1 beside the house, 2 behind the house and one around the well. I am seriousely thinking about an herb garden this year. We also have 2 tractor tires full of strawberries, 2 persimmon trees, 2 apple trees, 1 peach tree, 1 pear tree, and a blackberry patch that is huge! We raise our own meat and we have chickens too. We have all this on 40 acres plus a pond so there is plenty of fishing too! We have all kinds of flowers like roses, columbine, bleeding heart, irises, lilies, hostas, ivy, hollyhocks, moonflowers, several lilac bushes and rose of sharon bushes. That is just a few. When everything starts blooming again I will post pictures. :rainbow-sun

 

[pretty40acres]

I forgot to add.....I bought my first seed of the year today! Cardinal vine!

 

[RustyDHart]

I've been checking all of my Dahlia tubers in the basement.....I know they want to be planted.....I don't have the heart to tell them they have 3 1/2 more months to go before the ground is warm enough....then I start planting like crazy!!!

 

[HunkieDorie23]

I think if actual winter would get here it would be easier but this warmer Jan is torture.

 

[RustyDHart]

Crazy weather up here in Northern Michigan...one day it was 53 (record highs)...... and the next morning I drove to work it was -7 degrees...I was frozen solid.