A straw bale garden that is. Here’s the plan so far.

They say, close, only counts in horse shoes and handgrenades.

I’m hoping it applies to fertilizer as well!

The closest fertilizer I could find with high nitrogen and high potassium is a Vigoro lawn product at Home Depot.

Spread a handful around each apple tree. A light spread over most of the veg garden and some along the easterly bed on the Badgerow side near, not, on the lilac. Covered about a third of the recommended coverage. I’m hoping with the upcoming melt of six inches of snow and rain forecast for the end of the week it will be well diluted but won’t run-off to far.

Even with all the horrible weather, it looks a lot like it did last year. Funny that.

Oh, and started a small tray of mesclun lettuce.

We broke zero. Two days in a row!

Transplanted the bedroom fig today. It started to break buds just before the full moon.

Lots of early signs of spring. The hazels, willows and lilac all are just beginning to swell.

Have to move boxwoods this spring.

Booked Bartlett Tree Company to remove the second leader from the Sycamore, top the cedars and remove a limb from the Norway Maple in the front yard ($500).

30 day count down to staring seeds indoors. Planning to start some salad greens in vermiculite this weekend. Still a few of those damn little black flies.

My least favourite month!

I’m Canadian so I can rant on about the weather. Freezing, solid cold. Just about unbearable. Glad I didn’t fret about wrapping the figs this year. Would have been a total waste of time. Have to admit I’ve been negligent not getting to the snow on the boxwoods. In part as they are frozen together.

Brown paper boxes arrived yesterday. Ontario Seed Company order. $60.