Spring Sheros

That's part of the spring shero team, Kathy was missing. These women are responsible for all the planting and hauling and watering and feeding! They are doing a great job and the plants look wonderful this year. There's a picture of the trio on the right, Amelia, Katie and Kathy. We have a ton of plants planted and another ton waiting on the side, full swing and not too many weeks before we are in crazy plant mode!

I have a pot of quinoa simmering on the stove, breakfast ya know. Mora is having her morning nap and soon we'll be off to the seedlings. The wind finally let up, after a week end of torture, you could just stand and watch the fuel gauges go down! I'm hoping we're into a warming trend now and let March go out like a lion, be gone with you.

seedlings

This is the time of year when we are constantly rotating plants. Stick cuttings and hurry them along so the next batch can go under the mist. Sow seeds and hurry them on for the next week's list! There's a small backlog of plants waiting for potting at the moment but I was waiting to turn the heat on in the next greenhouse. Fuel costs are killing us this year. The plants look great and stock is healthy and fully recovered from the December freezing incident that happened while I was in Guatemala.



Ahhhh, Guatemala, just thinking about it soothes me. We had great adventures this trip, night time cross country buses, boat ride down the Rio Dulce, amazing meals at the Rosa in Livingston. When we got back to Atitlan we found an apartment and were able to go to market and get all the pineapple, avocado, fresh beautiful veggies and fruits that we wanted. Our little yard was beautifully tended by an elderly man. We had orange, tangerine, lemon, lime and grapefruit trees.

This year the dahlias came in looking the best I've ever seen them. They get started early so they can be already blooming by the time they go in the garden in May. They are easy but hog a lot of space. If the weather cooperates we can get them outside with remay and then replant that space with more tender annuals. The bananas and colocasias came in looking very fine this year also. Last year they were shipped during a freeze and they were all a bust. Well back to the work at hand.

weather spirits

Here's the team on Monday morning with hundreds of dahlias waiting for potting! By midday this house was half full of the little budding lovelies. My marvelous helpers from left to right, Amelia, Katie, and Kathy.




Amelia and Minnow at lunch time!


Now poor Katie is sick with the flu and we're all fighting it off.