Spring has Sprung

Today I got out the heavy equipment and had at the front yard. The lawn got mowed, the bushes got trimmed. I even got out a rake to clean up some of the leaves that escaped last fall.

Once again, I thought about how nice it might be to have a curb and sidewalk. Recent rains left large puddles at the edge where the lawn meets the street, and leaves and trash had blown onto the lawn from the park across the street.

We also cleaned out the garden shed, so that we could get the lawn mower put back away. I now have a pile of stuff that we took out of the shed, which seems larger than the shed ever was.

I’ve got tomatoes and lettuce growing in containers on the top of the fridge. I hooked up a plant light and a heating pad to a timer, and it runs from about seven at night until seven in the morning. The plants have been doing much better this year.

I was surprised at how well the seeds did at sprouting. In order to get better performance, I soaked the seeds in a cup of water on the heating pad overnight before planting. Even the tomato seeds I bought back in 2001, which look somewhat moldy, had a fifty percent sprouting rate.

The other day I noticed that my seedlings seemed to be looking somewhat wilted, so I checked the back of the potting soil bag. I’ve been watering them fairly often, but I don’t think I’ve been watering them heavily enough. I watered them a lot more, and the plants seem to have responded well. Maybe now I can go longer in between waterings.

Of course, now that I’ve got spring fever well under way, there is probably a heavy winter storm waiting in the wings to drop snow all over everything. Until then, I’ll enjoy the weather we have.

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