Last night I opened up the heating mat area to check on tomatoes and peppers who are indoors a few days while it’s chilly out.
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Could have found it in the day but I was working!
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Shacks needed outside in the sun. please humans!!! (he was right, it’s super nice out.)
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I was pleased to find several returning plants and potential new plants coming up!
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One hopeful Eryngo and seven cactus seeds!
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Johnny-jump-ups, the annual wild violets, really love the area around and in our raised veggie beds. They were in the lawn before we started doing stuff, but I think the reduced competition in the weeded soil lets them thrive.
I’ve discovered I can transplant them before they flower and have been strategically redistributing them in the ground cover around the beds. It’s working!!
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This weekend was beautiful and sunny.
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This year is our year to grow a bunch native legumes, as we decided, and a lot of progress is occurring!
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I am delighted to report some of the hopeful seedlings are looking promising for this species to live in our yard. It’s a perennial, so if conditions for germination were good this year it should stay for a while hopefully.
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Several classic spring flowers are coming up and a mystery seedling too.
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