March 2008

• 1st, 100 degrees inside greenhouse at 11:30, opened it up

first narcissus blooming

• 2nd, dug tomato/pepper trench in backyard, mixed in compost & peat moss

soaked bigger veggie seeds, sowed all early spring veggies (1st planting)2 in rain overnight, cold snap, greenhouse stood up well

• 3rd, 2 in snow overnight
• 4th, 50 degrees, sunny, 10 lbs grounds on compost and in trench
• 6th, 6 inches of snow
• 7th, 50 degrees, snow melted

20 degrees overnight, brought all new plants in except cabbages planted bunch onions and covered in mulch

• 10th, sprouts visible in early veggies

planted 2 red cabbage transplants in #3 bed potatoes rotting, cut off slips, set on soil and covered with mulch

• 14th, nearly 90 degrees, greenhouse hot. left open all day and night
• 15th, seems like radish sprouts withered, chillier day, so lettuce doing well?
• 16th, garden misted, covered again
• 17th, sporratic rain while garden covered, warmish then cool
• 20th, beet and carrot sprouts up, planted beans
• 22nd, dried out seedlings for plant sale, must

try again later, potatoes seem to be sprouting, cabbage aren't?

• 27th, beans sprouting, marigolds holding up, cabbage seedlings growing,

dug up cabbage seeds

• 28th, cold front, beans growing, watered