Category: Gardening
Growing Concerns: Get gardening fit and avoid injuries
Exercises we should do now so that when the time comes we are not so stiff and sore.
Growing Concerns: Time change good time to start seeds
The switch to daylight saving time is about the right time to start seeds indoors.
Growing Concerns: Wet soil first before planting seeds
If you plant into dry soil, when you water the seeds, water will run off the top and over the sides, potentially taking the seeds with it.
Growing Concerns: Too early to start seeds, but not too early to get ready
It is still a few weeks too early to start planting seeds, but it is never too early to be ready.
Growing concerns: Snow insulates, helps germinate
Snow, of which we’ve had plenty this winter, helps to regulate the temperature of the ground. Once it begins to melt, it fills up our waterways and reservoirs. Many plants rely on the cold weather to germinate seeds. Poppy and lupine seeds germinate best when planted in the snow for a minimum of five weeks. […]