A Gardener's Diary

[Monksdream]

April 23-Sunday is only the beginning of what will be another 48 hours of wind and rain. I made it to the farm around 10. CC the Calico Cat was sitting outside the greenhouse. I put the food bowl from the little shed and set it on a dry spot in the greenhouse so she could eat some breakfast. There wasn't anything I could do outside, so I up potted started plants -- asparagus and the remaining toothache plants. Then I walked uptown and moped around -- twice -- in the rain. I have to disperse some energy somehow.

Around 1 I packed it in and headed home, ate, napped, and awoke to hear the rain beating on the glass. The tomato plants will tolerate 50 degree conditions. I am concerned about the pepper and eggplants in the raised beds.

After this storm passes, the temperatures will climb to the high 80s some days, and the top layer of soil will warm up again.

One of the cucumber plants the project manager bought turned out to be an heirloom -- Straight Eight. I've grown in prior years. It dates back nearly 100 years and still remains one of the most popular slicing cucumber varieties.