Rose is Rose by Don Wimmer and Pat Brady for February 11, 2025

AWW!!

Already got tomatoes on the vine. Move inside. Getting about another foot of snow coming…got the garden smell today!

Gardening is just around the corner, okay, maybe two corners.

Dig around. Maybe some turnips got left behind. Critters like them.

the devastated looks on there faces is priceless. :J

Sitting at your garden with tools at the ready in February is really being optimistic. Especially when you’re in the NE U.S. I’m not quite sure where the Gumbo’s live, though?

The deer are all over my yard eating grass and my shrubs. My new apple tree is probably a goner.

Some crops come early. But not THAT early.

She could sit inside by the fire and read her gardening catalogues.

They have seeds out at Menards & Farm & Fleet, & swimwear is out at Target & Walmart. Seeing that is something of a morale-booster this time of year.

Give the animals a Burpee catalogue to read while they wait

Right now, here in Central MN, our ground is frozen so hard that I can’t get even step the rounded tip of a garden spade into it. I’d just bend the spade blade if I jumped on it. Even a pick bounces. Pro’lly at least a month before it thaws enough to get the spade in.

If I tried to pound in wooden stakes right now, they’d just splinter. I did pound in a steel 10" timber spike … part way (4") … before it froze to the ground around it. Yanked it out using a 3’ crowbar, and plunged the tip of my electric thermometer into the hole. It read -13F when the outside air temp was +18F, and typically it reads high by several degrees. No way am I sitting on -15F or colder snow or dirt.

Trying to turn the soil would destroy my very powerful electric tiller that will cut right through 2-3" red oak roots without even slowing down.