Ranunculas

[Branching Out]

We have a week of heavy rain ahead of us, so I moved some ranunculus from small sprouting containers to much larger containers close to the house so they could spread out a bit. Five went in the ground as well, as test subjects to see how they fare with heavy rain. Pretty amazing root development so far, and some nice foliage too.

 

[Branching Out]

Early February was unusually cold, and in spite of that it looks like my large bins of pre-sprouted ranunculas placed in an unheated hoop house with row cover survived the cold. They've been outside for a whole month, and now they are starting to put up bright green foliage so I removed the row cover to give them extra light. Hopefully we will get a stretch of dry weather again before too long, so I can plant them out in the garden.