Yesterday was officially the first day of spring!
First year for gardening so I'm very excited.
Since the start of March, we've been experiencing May like weather.
Usually, there's still a risk of frost in May and we have to wait until after May two four before it's safe to plant anything.
It's predicted this year that March and April will be May like weather.
The temperature for rest of March and April will vary a lot. It can go from -5 to 15 degrees Celsius in a day. It's even predicted to snow tonight.
The usual average temperature around this time is still -1.5 Celsius which means the ground is still typically frozen.
But the last 2 weeks have been +0 Celsius for long enough for the ground in my side garden to unfreeze!
This allowed me to get some work done on it this weekend even though the temperature dropped back to -1.5 Celsius.
This weekend, I was able to remove the mulch and mix in compost.
Instead of planting seeds right away, I covered the bed with a frost blanket since it'll be around 0 degrees Celsius for the next 2 weeks.
I hope to get a mini hoop tunnel up within the next several weeks to start planing in April.
I will also be starting seeds indoors to replant outdoors once I get the tunnel up and going.
Hopefully this year I'll have a prolong growing season because of the warm weather.
Fingers crossed!
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