False Spring

False Spring

Saturday morning the air was warm enough to go outside without a jacket. What a great time to plant the spring garden. Saturday saw carrots, radishes and beets sowed into a row 3’ wide and about 25’ long. Sunday was for Swiss chard, Tokyo cross hybrid turnips, curly mustard, mesclun mix and kale in one bed of 3 rows. Potatoes and onions went into another row.

The soil was too alkaline for potatoes so the first step was a heavy dusting of sulfur. It made me think about George Bush. Then I worked in a whole bunch of leaves so that the soil seems to be about ½ leaves and ½ dirt. Then the potatoes went in and a side row of onion sets. I still need to plant arugula and lettuce. Spinach has survived from the fall garden; but it never got big enough to pick. Maybe this warm weather will bring it up.

The weather man (fickle as he is) has promised us a week of spring like weather. I am quite sure it will be followed by more hard freezes and possibly some snow. I hope we won’t get early bloom on the flowers and fruit trees.



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