Garden 2025 Begins


 

With the planting of the peppers (8 weeks before last frost date), the 2025 garden season has begun.

The biggest change from last year is the position of the greenhouse. Instead of living in my guitar room on the north side of the house, without direct sunlight and relying on just the T5 fluorescents, it is positioned instead in the office, in front of the southwest facing patio door. Natural light should be a big help.

The weather this week was unseasonably warm. We hit mid-50's. It is, of course, a false spring, raising hopes only to dash them.

Today, we actually have reached a 9 on the Beaufort Scale - "strong gale" force winds gusting as high as 47 mph. as the temperature plummets all day long. 

Day by day, we will reach spring. 

Every day is a day closer to Donald Trump's death , which is a little something to celebrate. How does this happy thought relate to gardening, you might ask? Well, that idiot's ruinous economic policies are going to drive us into recession at best. Both K's and my jobs are at risk, as we work in industries (education & academia) that are specifically targeted by the far-right white supremacist terror group that has managed to destroy the federal government in a matter of weeks. (How could it have been so fragile?) 

Nothing good is going to come of this. It is a time of uncertainty.

Which is driving me to think: how can we produce the absolute most food from our garden this year as a hedge against unemployment and a new Great Depression.

Time will tell.



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