Daylight Savings Sunday: Shoots and Sprouts!

Hello, Lori Fiechter here on a warm and windy Daylights Savings Sunday! The tomato seeds that Stan planted just 6 days ago have a good stand already. My basil and scallions are just barely up so I'll report back on them in a few days.

Even though the wind made the audio a bit rough, I wanted to show you some encouraging signs of life in the early garden: rhubarb poking through the ground and some peach and elderberry buds. Spring is less than two weeks away! Do I hear a “hurrah!!”?

Rhubarb is a heavy feeder, so I need to fertilize it sometime in the next week. I should also separate the clumps and replant them since several of them are getting too crowded with spindly stalks and seed heads last spring. It is not a good sign when rhubarb goes to seed! Time to gear up for working outdoors again; I think I need to make a gardening to-do list!

If the weather stays nice this week, Stan said he needs to start pruning the fruit trees. They need fertilizer too. That means a quick trip to the feed mill this week to pick up a few bags of low-nitrogen fertilizer. Close to time for dormant-oil spraying too for the fruit trees.