Yesterday, 2 beds went in to 3 varieties of peas - snow, snap, and shell!
I often wait for the Oregon grape to bloom on my phenological scheduling of such things. That makes pea plantin' a tad late but cuing off the flowering of Forsythia often results in some weeks of rainstorms!
The Forsythia has been blooming for a week and as I'm standing scratching my head looking at the Oregon grape, I just decided to go with phrenology instead of phenology this time around.
Steve
Project BudBurst - I used to contribute my in-depth dandelion flowering information to this site. Then they dropped Taraxacum officinale but may sneak back on with Lamium amplexicaule (Henbit deadnettle) data.
This weekend I got *all* the vegetables out of the greenhouse. The last of the tomatoes and peppers went out to the garden (which is now fenced, but gate-less) and I planted cucumbers and cantaloupe from seed.
I moved the flowers out to the greenhouse, and planted a few more herbs under the lights inside.
I was about to give up on the spearmint I planted from seed, but today I saw one *tiny* pair of leaves, so I'll give it a while longer. I understand it spreads like wildfire so if I can get just one sprig going I should be okay.
I planted some Australian Butter Squash and Butternut Squash seeds that a friend gave me, and got another section tilled for beans, as soon as I get some saplings cut to make tipis out of. Trying not to spend a bunch of money and buying bamboo seems silly when I have hundreds of sweet gum saplings in with the pines. -Wendy