it's... not time for that yet?

[cathyw]

It's the middle of February.
There is still snow on the ground.
But spring must be coming because my brain is like, "Garden? Garden??? Garden!?!?!?"

I have seeds for peas and beans and lettuce but I think February is too early to plant those under any circumstances.

I have seeds for tomatoes and ground cherries and a few other cool things and I think February is way too early to start those indoors because the last frost is around mid-May.

The useful things I could do - prune the weeping cherry tree, pull out the old raised beds that are starting to rot and build new ones somewhere else, murder the volunteer shrubs and trees - it is too cold or too snowy or both to accomplish.

Is there anything I can usefully grow in a yogurt cup in my little IKEA mini-greenhouse?

...maybe basil, if I get it successively larger yogurt cups and eventually let it live outside?

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[sillimarilli]

Ground Cherries.... had to look those up. Ahhhhhhh. Like tiny tomatillos.

There's like this different in the smell of the air that hints at the change of the season. The redbud across the street is already red-tipped. I can't wait.

[cathyw]

Yeah - I've never grown them before but someone offered the seeds for free, so I figured, why not?

Mostly I want it to be warm enough/ground unfrozen enough to go out and do manual labor, because there is manual labor to be done...