Good morning all. Another frosty morning. It was 5F when I first got out of bed. It's supposed to get near 32F today. Finished my taxes yesterday so there's that until next year. I have my first load of laundry in and just finished going through my stock of seeds. I do need to buy jalapeno, poblano and bell pepper seeds and perhaps some more pole bean seeds. I don't want to plant too many green beans as I still have a lot of them in the freezer. I will be trying turnips in a different spot instead of the rutabagas. The tiny rutabagas I harvested last Autumn were magnets for the cabbage flies. I think I mentioned it before but I'm planting acorn squash instead of butternut this year. The seeds I have are a bush variety so they are more compact than the usual. I'm not sure if we will get much from that storm that's moving across the Midwest. Apparently the storm is still too far out to get an accurate forecast right now. I know we are getting 3 days in a row with highs in the low 40's so that should help melt some of this stuff that's on the ground now before the other storm rolls through. Someone mentioned nasturtiums awhile back. I planted them in my large 16 foot garden bed 2 years ago and they did come up and bloom. I didn't plant any last year, however several came up in the spot where I had planted them the year before. This was the same spot I planted my butternut squash. The squash bugs and vine borers just ignored them and devastated my squash. So not much help from them. I'm moving my squash plantings into feed bag containers this year set far away from last year's squash bug attack. Fingers crossed they don't find these new plants.
