Blessed With Warm Weather in 2022

 AN EARLY SPRING 2022

I am ready to put tomato plants and bell peppers in my greenhouse in the ground.  They have been outside at home on the table for a couple of weeks now and have outgrown their pots to the point of getting root bound, so I am sure they will be happy to have their feet in the ground so they can spread out.  

I spent yesterday replanting a one foot cutting from my gooseberry plant that was broken last year and I put in soil and rooted (well he did all the work, I just stuck him in the ground and watered).  I hope he will like his new home, he liked where he was rooted, but it's in a corner where there is no room for him to grow into a large plant, so I moved him with my blueberry bushes.  They still look scrawny, so I think I need to invest in a couple of new plants and put those two inside until they recover from their lazy streak or whatever it is they are doing or not doing.  

That's actually the gist of this post, when something isn't doing well, sometimes it is just best to take him up and put him in some fresh gardening soil in a pot and tuck away and let it recover, I don't think the variety I have is conducive to the harsh winters here and I can't be certain it is the species that I purchased, because let's face it, mix ups can happen with planting sticks at nursery's, so sometimes we do all we can to make plants happy and it just doesn't seem to help, sometimes they need to recover like humans, a little time resting and rehabilitation.  Plant rehabilitation can be as simple as that, a pot and good soil and rest, other times we may need to treat an infested or diseased plant, and the same methods can be used, treat and in a pot and rest.  

My other issue is my Russian peach tree does not like the wet climate here, it is used to the sunnier temps that were in it's region, as well as the cold in the winter months, and I have plucked his poor leaves off and I am going to treat him tomorrow to a good dose of epsom salt water via his roots and a spray of waters of peroxide to kill any fungus.  I hope that perhaps that will help rid him of whatever fungal issues he may have and stop the leaves from turning into clubbed leaves.  There were no signs of aphids, and hopefully they don't attack him now that I removed so many of his leaves, fingers crossed.

I have planted one bed with green beans and yellow beans and a row of pole beans, scarlet runners and a blackish purple hull sort, I like the scarlet runners in soup dried, but honestly I grow them for the pretty flowers and because they attract pollinators (shhh that's an insider secret).  

At home my front tiny garden has yellow and orange calendula blooming and bell flowers hanging that are pink and purple varieties, and I have a few plants in my containers, I still want that cottage feel, but the entire front is paving stones and gravel, so my plants are growing in gravel or in between the pavers, not ideal, but it works, and I actually think the plants are stronger than those growing in my regular garden because their roots are wrapped around stones and buried deep in what dirt they manage to reach.  

I feel so blessed that spring was a month earlier, having a warm April is a God sent gift from above, and one I am thankful for.  Long winters and the cold are not my "cup of tea", and my body really doesn't do well with those, so sunshine and warmth are always welcomed by me.

I wish all of you a happy gardening season this year.