Dirty fingernails
lisa December 15th, 2002
My fingernails are dirty from doing a little gardening - yes, even though it is the dead of winter, nothing can stop me! I went outside this morning and did some major cleaning up in the woods - using my nice loppers to cut down some volunteer maples and a bunch of burning bushes. Then I came in and mixed up some potting medium (peat moss and perlite) and tried out my new seed starting tray from Lee Valley. I sowed some gloxinia seeds from Park’s Seeds that I got in the mail last week. I got a lot of seeds from them this year and I’m really looking forward to trying to get all of them to germinate and seeing where to put things.
Seeds I will be starting this year: a shady wildflower mix, euphorbia, cupid’s dart, lavender, butterfly bush, foxglove (yellow), cyclamen, candytuft, poppy, erigorn, hellebore, and the gloxinias and a bird of paradise for inside. For vegetables I’m trying 2 kinds of lettuce, asparagus, carrot, cucumber, broccoli, and 4 kinds of tomatoes. Most of these seeds won’t be ready to start until February or March, but that will come sooner than it seems.
Last Thursday was my garden club’s annual winter party and yankee swap. I got a nice garden design book in the swap, which has lots of good ideas. Another thing I bought from Lee Valley recently was an irrigation system, because I am a big fan of making things easy on myself and saving water, too. So this winter I will be laying out an irrigation system and planning where I will put all these plants. I have ideas for where most things will go, but we still have to clear out some more trees so I have room and sun for growing.
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