Time: 1451
Location: Suffolk, Va
Weather:
Partly Cloudy
30°C
Westerly Wind 2.5 mph gusting to 6 mph
1,026 millibars
Solo working in home gardens.
Work & Observations
Used the warm weather to wash the aphids off pepper plants in garage.
Pulled up the early snow peas. Those plants have just been devastated from the winds of those last two storms. Fed the beats, carrots, late snow peas, broccoli, onions, garlic, scallions, all the front flowers, and the tea and herb garden. The late broccoli that finally came up is looking very sad. I will see what feeding them does.
I didn't feed the farva because the aphids are so bad, nor did I feed the hibiscus, the side be, or the butterfly bushes.
Almost all the early sprouting daffodils have broke through, same with the rest of the garlic, and some of the early sprouting tulips. Both the front blueberry bushes also have started forming leaf buds on them.
I needed onions to cook last week. I used the white onions in the beg garden. the bulbs were super small when I dug them up but I got ~ 9 new plants from the two original white onions, and that is not including what I used to cooked with.
Personal Thoughts, Sketches, and Photos
To Do
Research Blueberry Pruning
Research Butterfly Pruning
Plan Spring Garden
I didn't dump the rain gauge before those winter storms. As a result the water in it froze and broke it. We are looking at getting a CoCoRaHS rain gauge to replace it as part of the Master Naturalist.
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