Make Your Own Spring!
It certainly is cold, but it is spring inside this farmhouse. Temperatures are in the fifties (up from forties this AM) and there are chicks and seedlings mucking about. If the cold has you down, run to the nearest garden center and get yourself a bag of soil and some seeds and plant a pot of snap peas on your windowsill. They'll climb up it just fine and in a few weeks blossom into white flowers. By the time all your neighbors are just digging into their lettuce gardens you'll be crunching into the first veggies of spring! Now, throw in a banjo tune and you might just cause a little thawing out there in bluster. You want spring? Go make your own!
posted by Jenna at 3:51 PM
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What a sweet photo...!
The pepper plants are sprouting in their little peat pots as I sit here reading blogs.
15 pots planted --- 12 pots sprouted.
Not bad odds.
Thanks Jenna, good idea cold and darkness is oppressive lately.
Oh man, I am so close to making this happen! Last night I got a bunch of seeds from Annie's and SSE, and now I just need maybe a little heat pad to go underneath, and a little time to put some stuff together. This is my most proactive year of gardening yet, and I am so excited to get going. Who knew, with my forever black thumb, that I'd ever feel so alive with a little dirt and a few seeds?!
Thanks for the idea! I did just plant four different kinds of lettuce, but it didn't occur to me to grow peas indoors... But why not?
It is -9 degrees here in Southcentral NH at 6:15 am. I definitely need a touch of spring. Today, I will plant some herbs in pots ~ chives, rosemary & chamomile.
I am hoping that my chickens are okay out in their coop. I was told that they are very hardy in the cold but this is too much. I am considering getting some kind of heat lamp for these arctic blasts. Any suggestions on what to get? I want something that is safe so that we don't have a fire resulting in fried chicken.
I've been thinking about this a lot, especially since the temps started to drop below zero (they're calling for -25 with the windchill tonight! Yuck!!). I may just drag in the soil from the shed, grab some pots and find my seeds in the basement! You're photo has inspired me.
The past couple of weeks have been particularly depressing. Therefore, I am taking your suggestion and hitting the store at lunch.
tray of mesclun planted!
Another 'Jenna-ism'!
"You want spring, go make your own!"
Goes along with your life theme, "you want a (fill in the blanks here) life? Go make your own!"
Keep it up, Jenna!!
This is the best photo I've seen in ages.
Am I the only one that blows up Jenna's pictures to see what books she's reading?
Been growing a lot of happy green things in the classroom too...peas are pretty cheery. Ginger is pretty grand too!
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