A Gardener's Diary

[Monksdream]

March 2-Sunny in the morning. The storm passed. I took 12 Cherokee Purple tomato plants with me on the bus to the farm. The rain had its impact. The soil next to the ledge experienced a little erosion. That can be corrected with more rocks. My hope for the day was on Muhammed, but it didn't happen. After visiting the Harris Teeter and gathering camellia blossoms I took a nap in the afternoon. I woke up chilled, too chilled. I didn't feel up to par so I decided to go home. I put the tomato seedlings in a tary and carried them to the office where they will be safe from the expected overnight freeze.

Meanwhile, at home, I set up the containers for the Fatalii pepper seeds soaking in the sodium nitrate solution for tomorrow morning. Upstairs, on the third floor, I checked on the Rosa Bianca eggplant seedlings. The first one that germinated had grown so leggy to a point I knew it was an 86. Another later one has shown a true leaf. Hopefully its stem will thicken so it can be transferred to the greenhouse.

It is still March, and very early in the game even for growing cool weather plants. What doesn't make it can always be removed and replaced or resown.