It’s not even the end of February, but we’ve already had several days in the 60’s, and today is predicted to be in the 70’s, for heaven’s sake. Meanwhile, the ground is as dry as dust, as I know from having seeded a few favorites yesterday and today.
I’ve had mediocre luck with the incredibly easy sugar snap peas the last few years, but I’m trying yet again. I have Sugar Ann left over from last year (Roxbury sells loose seed, and the smallest amount you can get is a quarter pound @ $1.50). I sowed it very thickly in the raised bed in hopes that half of it will germinate. Here’s what it will look like if all goes well.
The rest are annuals that like cool weather, too. California poppies ‘Buttercream’ at one end of the sunny border, Shirley poppies in shades of pink and red by the mailbox, and sweet peas ‘Cutting Bouquet’ in the same bed as the sugar snaps. They may all look like this. (Thanks to the web for these images.)
Thanks again to Adrian Higgins who recommended sowing poppies in February. It certainly worked last year!
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