It seems only
yesterday that cold nights below zero and a heavy blanket of snow was the
norm. With the arrival of April, better weather has come and still the
emergence of spring flowering bulbs and the buds swelling on trees and
shrubs is slow due to the cold and wet ground.
The “set up” of
nursery stock at the nursery will be delayed about a week this year so that
the week of April 15th will be our goal to get ready for sales which is a
result of not trusting the weather to ‘behave” as we pull out container
plants from winter storage that are somewhat advanced from the warmer
temperatures of the winter storage huts. The annual flower greenhouse has
been heated up to start filling up with plants from the growing greenhouse
in the rear of the property and tropical plants that will arrive from
Florida next week. This section of the greenhouse including the tropicals
will be closed until about May 1st as that is the time much of the flower
and vegetable plants will be ready although it is too early to plant.
With Easter this
Sunday, we will finish up our Easter flower deliveries and then will go
“whole hog” to set up the greenhouse for sales in May. So many new hanging
baskets and potted plants are growing that the problem will be of where to
display everything! Just this past week, another 62 flats of tomato seed was
sown representing 40 varieties of hybrid and weird heirloom types. Potting,
trimming and tagging plants is the norm in the greenhouse these days!
Happy Easter!
~Tom
~Tom
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