Ardmore Bill's blog

It is April and it does seem like the last week has held true to the old saying, April showers make May flowers. I was sweating all the hard work I put into my garden in March with the turn towards the cold the weather has taken lately. Glenn "hurricane" Schwartz did say that after warm winters like the one we had that colder Springs are common. Lets just say I was covering and uncovering my seedlings often and also not uncovering them on the many colder days in March. But, it seems I've survived the worst of it...I've got a full crop of radishes, bok choy and lettuce that are all about an inch in height. It is amazing how hardly these plants are at these early stages of development. What is also remarkable when looking over the garden is how many other plants are hardly that one would least expect. I've already got a huge crop of "volunteer" sunflowers that are at one inch tall. I found in my grass by the garden a bunch of lettuce that also volunteered.

Check your calendars and mark this one off as one not to miss. We will be holding our semi-annual creek clean-up, in the creek that runs along the Septa bus Route, in conjunction with a our local Cub Scouts from pack#132, all students at Chestnutwold Elementary School. We will also have a guest speaker to talk about our local watershed. I'll have further details about start times and meeting locations as we get closer to the date.

Bill

St. Patrick's Day is the traditional day for planting english peas. I was able to get mine in yesterday after soaking them overnight in a cup of water. Anyone else out in the garden yet?

Hey all,

Testing, testing, testing....la la LA LA LA la la....ME ME ME ME...