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Monday, May 9, 2011
Another Alaska danger they didn't warn me about
So, I was walking into a store a week or so ago and just outside the door they had a display of flats full of green plants. Petunias for $21. I thought what the heck, a start to this year's garden. I brought them home and put the flat on the kitchen table and forgot about it until it looked like the top picture. Looked pretty full. I know the standard rule in Alaska is you don't plant outdoors at least until the end of May. There is still frozen ground in the shade and it can go below freezing during the night.
That's fine. I asked a friend at work what i am supposed to do with this jungle growing in the flat and she said you have to separate them. One by one.
That led to more flats, a bag of dirt and some individual containers. Then i was ready to wait two or three more weeks. So, I thought. Now look at the second picture. What the heck do I do now? What am I going to do now?
I could put one on every desk at work and still have 50 left over. In addition through a purchasing error I now have 72 pea plants poking through dirt in one of those greenhouse flats. And, it is only May 10 and we still haven't even had Green Day yet. Where is that global warming when you really need it?
In cultivating the garden i found some green on plants I thought were dead. And farther out in the yard there are little green buds on the wild roses.
There's a lot of open water on the swan pond, too, and a couple of ducks on it yesterday.
As Petunia's boyfriend might say the the the that's all folks.
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