I checked the supposed blueberry plants this afternoon, and noticed a couple of leaf buds starting to form on them, so I reckon they didn't die after all. BUT - while the leaves are shaped like blueberry leaves, they are much larger when they grow out than the leaves on some blueberry bushes I looked at at the Walmart garden Center a week or so ago. Since I know nothing about blueberry bushes, I don't know if there are varieties with leaves that big or not. Hence, I still can't be sure they actually ARE blueberry bushes. I may not know until they start bearing whatever fruits they are going to bear,
Sprouting is going dismally this year, all except for the tobacco sprouts, which are rolling out like gangbusters. The new catnip sprouts are slow - there are only 8 or so of them so far, out of a couple hundred seeds sewn. Worse for the thyme - 3 sprouts so far out of a couple hundred seeds sewn. Basil is sprouting ok, but nothing to write home about. The rosemary has not shown a single sprout in 13 days, but I'll give it a couple more weeks before I throw in the towel and pick up some pre-sprouted plants.
Last year's catnip is coming back, and is starting to put up stems out of the rosettes that survived the winter. The volunteer spearmint is doing pretty good.
Wild ferns around my deck are putting out fiddleheads now.
I got some mammoth sunflower seeds and some pole beans, but it'll be a couple of weeks still before I can put them in the ground. I figure I'll let the beans vine up the sunflower stalks, and not bother even planting any corn this year, given last year's dismal showing, and the fact that I've still not got any seed for the kind of corn I want to grow anyhow.
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Sprouting is going dismally this year, all except for the tobacco sprouts, which are rolling out like gangbusters. The new catnip sprouts are slow - there are only 8 or so of them so far, out of a couple hundred seeds sewn. Worse for the thyme - 3 sprouts so far out of a couple hundred seeds sewn. Basil is sprouting ok, but nothing to write home about. The rosemary has not shown a single sprout in 13 days, but I'll give it a couple more weeks before I throw in the towel and pick up some pre-sprouted plants.
Last year's catnip is coming back, and is starting to put up stems out of the rosettes that survived the winter. The volunteer spearmint is doing pretty good.
Wild ferns around my deck are putting out fiddleheads now.
I got some mammoth sunflower seeds and some pole beans, but it'll be a couple of weeks still before I can put them in the ground. I figure I'll let the beans vine up the sunflower stalks, and not bother even planting any corn this year, given last year's dismal showing, and the fact that I've still not got any seed for the kind of corn I want to grow anyhow.
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