Hi everyone! It’s been really busy here, but very soon I will be having Minerva’s Garden make the switch from WordPress.com to WordPress.org, which will make the site better. Stay tuned for (hopefully) some blog beauty!
Now, what in the world is up with the weather? (Can you say climate change–why yes, yes, I can.) We haven’t had much cold weather, one day of snow in January. (You know it’s warm here when the agapanthus hasn’t died back at all, and it isn’t even covered with plastic or anything–that’s a zone 9 plant!) All of my fruit trees are breaking dormancy already, as are all the roses. NONE of my bulbs are blooming yet, and normally by this time of year I have snowdrops, crocus and winter aconite in bloom, not to mention sarcococa shrub flowers. The winter jasmine is loving the warm weather, as is the Chinese witch hazel, and they are blooming away. All I am seeing is some bulb greenery coming up.
My greens under plastic were in fabulous shape and we were eating off them a fair amount until the snow. I haven’t had a chance to even go out to look under the plastic in a while, but that will be a project for one of these upcoming sunny days, perhaps tomorrow or Saturday. Hopefully all is well, and I suspect it will be, because the snow didn’t crush the hoops or plastic coverings.
My baby lettuces, radicchio and basil are growing away under lights. I may just keep them around, and if this weather keeps up, plant them out under the plastic (of course, not the basil–it’s way too cold for them to be outside, even covered.)
What’s the weather like in your neck of the woods? Do you have any early bulbs in bloom yet? Let me know down in the comments!
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