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February has 29 days every fourth year for some scientific reason!1There are 1440 minutes in a 24 hr. day, 525600 hrs. in a 365 day year, and 1440 more in a leap year, … someone who likes keeping track has already done this, so …

But FYI, this post is not about science.
So anyway, then, I will not post on this calendar date again until I am no longer an octogenarian.

2024’s February had some very normal winter-like days2in the twenties with frozen white stuff, etc. in our area. It also had some very spring like days3in the low sixties with sun and no wind.

What does someone with plant something in his DNA do on February days in the 60s4Fahrenheit, not 1960s.? The answer my friend is not blowing in the wind. It is getting the garden ready, but with an awareness that an April snow fall a few years ago buried the onion sets.

As I approach being a nonagenarianite,5If nonagenarianite is not a real word, I hereby coin it. my garden is getting downsized. NO! Not to window boxes and tubs on the deck!

You know I have howevers, so this is it: I’m converting to a form of raised gardening – eight by four boxes with two-foot paths between. In as much as gardening is a domestic experiment anyway, I’ll try to condition the soil in each box for the type of plant put in.

I’ve already made the pH of my onion bed 6.8, but I’ve read it can be as low as 6.2.

Well so I don’t go on-and-on like I have a tendency so to do, I quit this forum for today.


Yell

Just say’n!

Notes
  • 1
    There are 1440 minutes in a 24 hr. day, 525600 hrs. in a 365 day year, and 1440 more in a leap year, … someone who likes keeping track has already done this, so …
  • 2
    in the twenties with frozen white stuff, etc.
  • 3
    in the low sixties with sun and no wind
  • 4
    Fahrenheit, not 1960s.
  • 5
    If nonagenarianite is not a real word, I hereby coin it.
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