All winter, we wished for snow. Those wishes have been granted in spades. It has rained nearly every day of May. My highly-scientific-wheelbarrow rain gauge says we’ve gotten about 5 inches of rain: Great for the wildflowers and the grass, but it hinders planting plans. I am writing this now because I’ve been run indoors by a thunder and lightning storm, the third round today. Daytime temperatures have rarely reached 65 degrees, which is the requisite temperature for germination of pretty much anything. Nighttime temperatures are also still in the 30s, so it’s definitely too cold to plant warm season seeds. Spring seems a bit late. The trees are only thinking about leafing out; the chokecherries just opened up this week.
The Minion and I have taken turns carrying the tomato seedlings back and forth from the greenhouse. They needed light! I am too cheap to propane heat the greenhouse, so the tomatoes had to come back into the basement at night. They had sunshine several days for the last two weeks, but the overcast really didn’t lend itself to phenomenal growth. These are some pathetic seedlings. My seedlings are pretty stunted because they’ve been living in the cold dark basement. The recent snowy weather really took a toll. Anyway, last week I broke down and bought two 14 dollar grow lights to assist with the growing process. I’m not sure how much good it did, but now I have them for next year.
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