Ever get tired of winter? Yeah, I know, silly question. I find the month of February to be the worst. Enough of snow, shoveling, nose freezing, plastic on the windows, snow on the boots, driving in snowstorms, black ice, below zero temps., being cooped up............need I go on?
I have a cure for you! Or at least a little bit of spring early. Start your own plants for the garden this year. You can pick the variety you want to grow, its a lot cheaper, and its not hard.
I started the garden season last week with planting onion seeds. I have not bought an onion from the store in 10 years. I like that. Onions from plants instead of sets work well for me. They grow bigger, keep better and you can get more varieties. I order all of my seeds from Jungs Seed. Great company and good seeds. What I forget to get there I just get locally. This year I started the Red Bull(red storage) and Ailsa Craig(spanish) onions from them. I also started American Flag leeks and some seeds I saved from Australian Browns, a yellow storage onion I got from Jungs 2 years ago.
Here is my seed starting/chicken hatching area in the basement. As you can see, I have lots of company when I am down here!
And here are the onions. I plant them in 4" pots, potting soil/peat in bottom and seed starting mix covering them up. My chest freezer is wonderful to use as seed starting area. Cats love the dirt, so put your pots somewhere they can't get to!
They'll be up in a week and I'll feel better to boot! There is hope for spring yet.
I do the same thing, start a few plants and cuttings to give me that spring feeling. I agree, I find February and even March long. I guess because they are the months that are in the way of spring getting here. Even though I'm in Canada, I'm not that much farther north than you so I bet we almost suffer the same winter blahs!
ReplyDeleteExactly the same winter blahs, I'm sure. I just want to be outside and not be cold. Let the birds out, clean the yard up. Small stuff. The onions are sprouting right now, I can just see green. There is hope.....
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