Smiles - imagine you have containers of seeds tucked away for the next season. Imagine you had to pull them out of the freezer since a door was left open and thing melted. Cardboard boxes were eliminated and plastic container are now filled with seeds - seeds that you bought on sale, or rare seeds that cost outrageous amounts. And they need to be assessed and written down and put in order. I have 8 containers of vegetable seeds - greenbeans fill one container alone. Two bags of mixed butterfly and hummingbird seeds that will cover 1000 feet in another - small tiny plastic zip bags have 5-7 seeds of some Siberian tomato and sandwich bags full of cilantro seed - aka coriander. I bought a pound of that stuff - it was cheap.
Greenhouse is zinging along - perennials being transplanted - basil popping up faster than usual with the warm weather - moon time has passed but the seeds were delayed due to snows. Now it gets so hot we can't stand the heat - 100 degree swings in temperature. Dad always said only fools and foreigners tried to predict our weather but today they are pretty good. But the swings - the bushes are budding. The daffodils are coming up and the naked ladies have 10 inches of growth - it came up under the snows.
I wish I could calculate the value of all my seeds - I must have 40 varieties of gourds, cut back on tomatoes, but went crazy on eggplant. I want to plant out but I know without a doubt there is going to be another hard hit - it's Oklahoma afterall.
Three tomato seedlings came up in the lemon grass that was dug in the fall, and I rescued them - now there are tomatoes setting fruit - and the plants are reaching 3 feet up. I usually don't waste the space on such extravagances - but just cutting off a leaf and smelling it is almost worth the time and effort.
I won't be selling all summer at markets - the farm will contain my product - customers can come out with me gone, find a bit of change or leave me a check - and bag your own. I'm still working over the seed selections - wondering if I am going to have to make another trip to OK City for more pots - it's coming - it's not going to be the same - I think it will be worse - the weather is stronger, weirder, different. Hang on - we are in for a wild ride.
