The Smell of Wet Wool

Well, if March came in like a pussycat instead of a lion, it is going out like a very wet little lamb. It is raining, raining, raining. Everyone’s beautiful lawn is up to their knees. The gardens and flowering trees are soaking it up too. The wet weather has confined me to the greenhouse, which isn’t all bad.

The repotting and transplanting are almost completed. There is no more room to add more pots. It seems that almost every seed germinated and almost all of the plants survived, so as the plants are repotted they wind up in 2, 3 or even 4 pots instead of one. The greenhouse was being watered every night. The wet weather has caused this to be cut back to every other night for the time being.

Monday the warmer weather is supposed to return. That will be the time to start hardening off the plants that will go to the garden. Putting them on the ground will invite the rabbits to a feast. The table that is used for hardening off will never hold all of the plants, so a temporary bench will have to be set up.

David Segrest is an International REALTOR in Charlotte, NC. His email is david@segrestrealty.com , His webpage is http://davidsegrest.com , and his international real estate blog is http://dointernationalrealestate.blogspot.com/