The hub’s is no exception as he has fussed and worried over the cold and the rain for the last couple of weeks now.
He told me the other evening that last year he had all the plants in the ground on the 24th of April last year. Glad he remembers that because I can’t remember for sure what I was doing a week ago, not to mention a month or even a year!!
And of course, those of you who know Rich well know that he is not the kind of person who can just “chill out”, he just doesn’t have it in him. So, when the plants outgrew the greenhouse, and the ground was nothing but mud, and it was approaching the first of May, he just had to do something!
So, this past week, he started building temporary hanging spots for the tomato plants. He has one, on top of the ground spot behind the house, and today is getting ready to put up another one on the patio.
The good news is that the plants are thriving, even in the pots. The Goliaths are I would guess 3 ½ to 4 foot tall, and some of them even have blooms on them!
The old fashioned heirlooms are not quite so tall, and for the moment at least that is a good thing, as they are not worrying him too much.
Another good thing, we have had a couple of good days, and he’s been able to at least break the soil with the garden tiller.
He wasn’t digging deep, but needed to get the grass cover torn out, and open the soil so the air could dry it.
The bad thing is that we’re expecting more rain tomorrow, so the odds that he’ll get anything actually in the ground before the end of the week is slim.
He says if the sun would come out for a day it would help a lot, but it just never seems to happen. We had temps above 70 yesterday, but it was a gray day, and it is a gray day today as well.
Oh well.
BTW, the peppers are in pots and waiting to go in the ground, and the onions are in the ground already.
Those we will sell, and then just for our own use, he’s got some radishes and lettuce planted. Only thing missing now are the cucumbers.
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