Seedlings under lights in the safety of the garage

Waking up to temperatures in the low 20s is not much fun following the late spring-like temperature tease of earlier in March. All the plants - tender perennials, greens in addition to the tomatoes and peppers and eggplants seen in the above pic - have been in the garage for nearly a week.

However, it is only March 20, today is the first day of spring (at last), and if we get the forecasted warmth starting tomorrow, everything will head back outdoors, well hardened off. I could be a week from tomato, pepper and eggplant transplanting. My fingers are crossed!

What I am spending most time on at the moment is preparing for some local events (Veterans Healing Farm), and a Zoom with New York gardening groups on container and strawbale gardening.

For gardeners living near me, I don’t have a plant list or details on dates quite yet. I will be corresponding via email those those who are interested when I have a better idea on what’s to come.

I didn’t do an Instagram Live last week because there was really nothing new to report and it was too cold. Depending upon the weather, I may do one this coming Friday. This is the calm before the storm - things will be getting busy really soon.