Yippee. I think "spring" is finally here. Right about now you are probably thinking I'm a little bit crazy but in truth I live in the Rockies and "spring" comes later here.
We always joke about springtime in the Rockies being an oxymoron because there really is no such thing. Tuesday we had a snow and ice storm with a low of twenty-five degrees and this weekend we will see the temperatures climb to seventy degrees. That is quite toasty here where fifty degrees is t-shirt weather.
Even though the weather will be so nice I am sticking to the rule: Don't plant anything until after Memorial Day. I made the mistake of not following that rule three years ago. After several weeks of mild weather I couldn't wait the five more days until Memorial Day and I did some heavy planting. Three days later I had a yard full of black plants following a several snow storm. It was definitely a sad day but I learned my lesson well.
This year I have planting woes for a different reason. I became inpatient for gardening season, as usual, and decided to plant some seedlings indoors. Not only did everything germinate extremely quickly but almost to 100%. Uh-oh, planting season was still several weeks away. I have had to re-pot my seedlings from their little peat pots to one gallon containers which necessitated putting up a six foot table to set them on. Oh my, what a mess.
It's all working out though. I'm at the countdown point. Now I get to start setting them to harden and get ready to plant. Of course there are still some below freezing nights in store (and possibly a snow storm) so in they will come at night.
I do see some green sprouts in my flowerbeds. Unfortunately, some of them are weeds. We wage a special war against the dandelions here in Montana. I'll have to write about them sometime because they deserve their own story.
Along with the green sprouts in the yard, I have made some great progress with the new website. There are still some glitches here and there (I view them as the weeds on my website) but nothing a little more work won't fix. Come on by and see the progress: http://ExtremeGardeners.com
Until next time,
Marilyn
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