I used my new (old) Planet Jr. push seeder for the first time yesterday to seed some peas (Cascadia, which has been proven to do well here, and Sugar Sprint, which hasn’t — we’ll see). I haven’t used a Planet Jr. for two years, but it all came back to me, I’m thankful to report. The seeder was a gift from Elden (the guy knows what I like, what can I say) and it seems to be working well. I tried to make sure the peas were getting down to a depth where there’s still some moisture in the soil . . . but all I can do now is wait. Wait for rain, and wait to see if the peas sprout.
In the woods along the driveway, I noticed a flowering shrub (dogwood? anyone?) and some fuzzy fiddleheads. There’s new growth sprouting up everywhere you look.
Even though we don’t have our well drilled yet, I’m itching to bring the rest of the transplants out to the farm where they can get full sun all day. It would be nice to have everything in one place. I really hope we’re done with cold nights — threatening-to-freeze nights, anyway. I’d like to cross that worry off my list.
I looked up Wrenshall on weather.com and saw no freezing temps, but Saturday night into Sunday is supposed to be only 34 degrees. Sounds cold to me! Nice seeder!
I don’t think your mystery plant is a dogwood. The flowers are lovely with the bronzy foliage. It’s an early bloomer, whatever it is.
Wonder if it’s something in the quince family.
Your broccali (?) plants are lovely!
Diane
I’ll take 34 over 29 any day. 🙂 We’re supposed to get rain today and tomorrow. I guess last week we only got 0.14.
Thanks for the thoughts on the flowering plant, Diane. Unfortunately Elden said he took out a bunch of its cousins last fall when clearing space for the driveway. They weren’t flowering at the time, of course, so they seemed expendable!
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