Potatoe & Onion Time

Bought seed potatoes (Red) and onion slips at Warehouse Mkt today. The weather hasn't let up...still frozen outside. This has been the longest cold spell in years.

Planting

Put out the Bell Peppers bought the other day.

Snowed Today

It snows 10" today. We fixed some suet cakes for the birds and hung them to the railing of the truck.....our bird feeder. Whenever it get icey or snows I throw about a pint of birdseed into the bed of the truck which is parked outside our kitchen window. And so each time we sit down to eat we can watch the birds. Of the birds that visit our feeder are junkos, cardinals, sparrows, pigeons, blue jays, and finches will pick through the honeysuckle vines on the fence next to the truck.

The Flowering Quince was getting ready to bloom...hope the snow doesn't hurt it.

Apple Trees

Planted two apples trees and 3 blackberry vines we bought from Lowes.

Also planted:

1. Onion - Evergreen bunching
2. Spinach - Bloomsdale
3. Chives -
4. Carrots - Nantes
5. Peas -
6. Lettuce - Bibb
7. Sarkspurs - Ours
8. Turnips - Ours

Planting Herbs

Planted herbs that I got at the recreation center last year during the family Allsup reunion.

Finally

Planted the apple trees and blackberry vines we purchased earlier. Every apple tree we have planted before failed. We did plant some cuttings from Nanny's plum tree out in Worelyville and they took. I've always wanted store-bought blackberry plants and now I've got my chance. Linda and I layered the 7 Sisters rose for starts next year. I made a little cut on a good cane, stuck a toothpick in it and covered it with soil and a rock.

Set out cauliflower and broccoli starts today.

Planted Glads that I moved from Mom's.

Putting up Shelves for Starts

In flats:

1. Broccoli
2. Cauliflower
3. Cabbage

I built some shelves in downstairs bedroom window for starting plants. I made the upper shelf wider than the bottom so that grandmad could close the blinds without disturbing the plants.

Black Eyed Susans

Planted black-eyed Susans in the north bed next to the garage door.

First Starts

Started in flats:

1. Collards "Georgia"
2. Broccoli "Green Goliath"
3. Cauliflower "Early Snowball A "

Started cleaning up the beds.