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| Falling backwards onto this plastic lid was scary. |
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| You can see the mounds of snow behind the frames. |
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| New lid in place. |
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| I have a fun video of feeding the fish but have trouble with uploads-Sorry. |
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| Inside the cold frames some ice has built up - not good for seedlings |
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| Neosho National Fish Hatchery last week - feeding the fish was fun. |
I have been trying to keep the snow off the cold frame lids but the snow seems to be winning. Yesterday I was trying to get the mounds of snow behind the cold frames knocked down so I could push more snow off and I fell backwards on the lid of one frame - plastic easily breaks - glass would have been a disaster! So just another reason why not to put old windows as lids for any season extenders. Old shower curtains, 4mil plastic doubled, or even fiberglass material is fine for the lid cover - but never - never glass. OK, not much damage to me but my pride and today I put new plastic on the lid.
The days are getting longer and the sun is warmer ( I fixed the lid in the greenhouse and it was Hot! in there). All but one of the seed orders are in and I have the list below. I put the list by supplier this year instead of seed types - easier to make lists. With March fast approaching it will be time to put up the plastic insulation in the greenhouse and get the furnace turned on - all this snow can't last.
Happy Gardening
2013 Seed List
I think this year I will list the seeds and the source
together...
From Territorial Seed Company
Loma lettuce
Italiko Rossa – red stemmed dandelion
Perfection fennel
Ouinoa – brightest brilliant rainbow
Manny Hybrid – greenhouse cucumber
Summer Dance – garden cucumber
Space spinach
Olympia spinach
Improved Dwarf Siberian kale
Wild Garden kale
Gladiator Hybrid parsnip
Kong sunflower
From Johnny’s
Selected Seeds (sent in a box to protect the pelleted seeds!)
Panisse green oakleaf lettuce - pellet
Bambi green romaine lettuce - pellet
Salvius green romaine lettuce – pellet
Venetian lettuce
Win-Win pac choi hybrid
Rubicon napa cabbage
Red Splendor mustard greens
Katrina hybrid cucumber
Alpine daikon radish
Red Rib Italian dandelion
Sweet Thai Asian basil
Aroma basil – pelleted
Genovese basil – pelleted
Titan leaf parsley
Orion fennel
Profusion F1 zinnia
Zahara Double Fire zinnia
From Pinetree
Garden Seeds
Gigante Di Inverno spinach
Sbanach spinach
Roquette arugula
Prezzemolo Gigante D Italia parsley
Thymus vulgaris
French thyme
Zefa fennel
Watercress greens (will use an aquarium growing)
Starbor kale
Dwarf Blue Curled kale
Gloriette radish
Tomatoberry Garden tomato
Pacific Beauty mixed calendula
From Jung Seed
and Nursery
Sugary Hybrid tomato
Momotaro tomato
Country Taste tomato
Ultimate Opener Hybrid VF (free trial)
Muncher cucumber (free trial)
Cactus zinnia (free trial)
Carmen pepper
Planet pepper
Cute Stuff Gold pepper
Rover radish
Red Head radish
Dwarf Blueberry collection (Northcounty, Northsky,
Northblue)
Rovada red current
Candy hybrid onion plants
From Sand Hill
Preservation Center
Carentan leek
Prizehead lettuce
Marvel of Four Seasons lettuce
Winter Density Cos lettuce
Spring radish mix
Queen Anne’s Pocket melon (fun and fragrant too)
Ledmon watermelon
Royal Golden watermelon
Rouge V’lf D’Etampes pumpkin (mostly for the fragrant
flowers!)
Canary Bird zinnia
Enchantress zinnia
Impulse Buys always a danger but just can’t be
helped sometimes!
Hill Country Red okra
Joseph’s Coat amaranth-tricolor (edible leaves)
Illumination amaranthus-bicolor
Jewels of Opar (Talinum paniculatur)
