Do I need a frost warning? Do I really need early morning temps to dip to 32°? Ok atmosphere, get this hinky temp thing out of your air, BTDT a while back, it's time to move on from ice crystals.
I covered the tuber plants with sheets and they are on the porch. Hopefully they and the annuals will be just fine. I brought the tomatoes and dahlia seedlings into the house. So no worries about those overnight. I hope.
I need to trash two of my plants and bleach out their containers. I had been thinking they had mosaic virus and I had it confirmed w the dahlia peeps that they did look sketchy. So no huge loss, I'll give them a toss and try to keep the rest of my stock healthy as I can. Who knows if that will be, but I'll try.
I got the dahlia bed roughed up again, in fact I sank in part of it. I amended the soil over the winter with rabbit poo, bedding, leaves and grass clippings. I'm hoping it makes fantastic soil. And even more fantastic blooms.
Now I struggle with what I plan to fertilize with at planting. Since I added all the compost I don't know if that will tilt me anyway in particular. Nitrogen and potassium are my soil recs from two years ago. I've added potash at close out and let it work in over the winter. A friendly agronomist told me that can be best for working into my soil. So I keep trying and will probably do a soil sample this fall again and see how I am sitting. Hopefully for some sort of improvement is my goal. But still stuck on how to fertilize properly. I mean what do you think rabbit poo does? I don't think it'd be super high in any one thing, but I have no clue.
Totally ready to get it all going! I'm ready for blooms and totally not welcoming to hopefully what will be our last frost!
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