Good morning, and it's coming... eventually. Welcome to Saturday Morning Garden Blogging.
Denver's had pretty normal January weather this week. The week's high came on Monday at 57°. We've cooled 10° to 20° since then, and got a little spit of snow on Wednesday (just enough to keep the ground covered, but not screw up the roads). The lowest temperature was 6° on Thursday -- I wouldn't want to run bare breasted through the park at that (or any!) temperature, but it definitely beats -6° (or -16°).
But mostly we're hanging within swatting distance of the historical average high (43°) and low (15°) for this time of year, even if our seasonal snow totals are way below average. And for the next week, we'll have more of the same.
Meanwhile, this is one of my indoor gardening successes....
...rooting fuchsia cuttings. A couple-three weeks ago while I was giving the plants a good soak, a large branch was broken off one of the fuchsias. So, since it was already broken off, I trimmed it into cuttings, stuffed them in a jar of water, and voilá — baby plants. Only other thing I've had root this fast and easy is coleus. So now I can confidently splurge on more varieties of fuchsia, knowing I can easily carry them over from year to year.
It's somewhere around this time in January, when we're a full month past the official beginning of Winter, and two months from the official beginning of Spring, that my lizard brain begins to process that the days have become incrementally longer, the angle of the sun has shifted and that we will, within just a few weeks, be into the next gardening season.
Whoo hoo!
It's not quite yet time to start plants... but is time to be planning.
I put my vegetable seed orders in, including melons for the Mister, kohlrabi for the Kid, and snap peas for everyone. Yup, gotta have a lot of snap peas to feed the whole neighborhood. I also ordered my standard tomatoes (carmello and super sweet 100s), a new type of cucumber (uhm... which one did I finally decide on? Oh well, guess I'll know when they arrive), colored cauliflower, romanesco broccoli, pole beans, 2 types of bell peppers, one kind of hot pepper and, of course, some random flower seeds of whatever type caught my eye.
Somehow the order I thought I put in last year for asparagus crowns didn't go through —so I made sure I did get them ordered for this year.
It's kind of a sneaky, self-serving birthday gift for the Polish Princess.
I have no room for an asparagus patch. She does have room for an asparagus patch. So... I give her asparagus crowns for her birthday and, next year, she gives me asparagus because I gave her asparagus crowns.
Win-win, right?
In any event, I ordered 25 purple, and 25 normal, asparagus crowns from Territorial Seed.
We've had such a mild winter overall that I've a lot of spring bulbs that have already pushed through to the surface, and there are a lot of johnny jump ups that will likely bloom sometime in February.
That's what's happening here. What's going on in your gardens?