The boxes of peach tree seedlings continue to do well, the average is now 6 inches plus with a few top growers reaching 10 inches already, they will be good size when sale day and pickups happen in may
Today is the first of march and weather wise, the snow storm started last night and has been coming down since, we got three inches of new fresh snow last week and it looks like another three or four or more is coming in. Thankfully the warming snap helped melt off the roofs so they are not carrying a crazy amount of weight.
Others have not been so lucky and have needed to shovel off their roofs in many parts of ontario due to very crazy snow loaded. Clearly this should have been done sooner but still, WOW! In keeping with the snow load, so many folks have been showing their photos of car ports down but none worse then what happened in our capital city this past week..
For whatever reason they decided to pile all the snow off the top of the car parking build onto a single corner and they kept doing so though record breaking snow falls in a very short order.. the weight was to much and it dropped a corner of a four story parking garage onto itself. Thankfully no one was hurt but over 50 folks are without their vehicles due to this.
Today is Dear Hubby’s 53rd Birthday and i expect at least some of it will be spent shoveling snow, yet again!
I was excited to pick up some green onion bulbs to get into the pots this weekend to get them under the grow lights, given the snow pack, i am not in a hurry to get things started, i will be giving some things a bit of a extra week or two before planting the seeds.
I have time to do one more box for winter sowing as the seeds have been in the fridge getting a head start on things and my farm porch greenhouse just had the winds do a bit of damage so will need some new plastic and some shifting of wood, in winter that area gets filled with dry and aged firewood as it allows us to refill the indoor without having to go truly outside, however what is left will need to be shift this month so that space/shelfs and so on will prepped and ready for cool/cold season seed starting and then for lots of in and out warmer seed starting and hardening off etc.
Have you started your early seedlings, or do you live in a zone where you are in full seedling start mode, being in Garden Zone 5a, while spring forward with time change is next weekend and its officially only 20 days till spring, it will be much longer till our last spring frost date.
May you fill your weekend with things that bring you peace and help you connect with the hear and now in the best way possible!
Just another Day on the Farm 
Holy cow! That is a *lot* of snow on that roof. I knew that you guys were getting hammered by the storms but I didn’t realize it was that bad. Wow.
Are you planning on saving a peach sapling for your orchard? It’s exciting to see green things when the world is a sea of snow. I only have a small ornamental flowerbed. I may take over one of my mother-in-laws raised beds to grow some veggies and herbs this year. I have to have chat with her about it. My hope is to raise some produce for small batch canning next harvest. I am sure that food prices are going to climb here in NY, even with farmer’s markets doing their best to get produce out to everyone.
Speaking of ornamental flowerbeds, do you have one in addition to your food production gardens? If so, what is your favorite thing to plant in there? I love my hyacinth. It smells fantastic. And the tulips are always a nice surprise. Somehow, I forget they’re there and then one day *poof* tulips.
Good Morning, ya, i am so glad we are not dealing with that kind of snow, what we have is enough, still snowing and up to over 5 inches now in the past 24 hours. I will be saving my top five picks out of the peach seedlings to grow out here on the farm, hope to do so each year and then select to improve size and flesh cover/sweetness etc However at least 90 plus percent of them will be sold, i have allowed half of them to be early reserved and i will also donate a few for a community garden plant sale this spring as donations for fund raising.
If you have room for some pots you can do a good amount of growing in them if you choose the right types of plants and or breed for patio style but if you can get one of your mother in laws garden boxes, it will give a great starting leg up thats for sure. I do agree with you, i think alot of folks that offer at farmers markets will be planning on increasing their gardens and end amounts this year.
While i do not have any just flowers/pretties, i do have a lot of flowers intermixed in the gardens as well as though the food forest, some are for cutting flowers, some are for pollinators, some are medical or herbal. I do a lot of native wild flowers as well as select favorites for texture and colors, I do have Tulips, and they are lovely!