Temps reached 60 today so I opened up Sleipnir's garage doors and worked on some geranium plants that I overwintered there. It was a hard year on the geraniums and where I usually lose a few plants each year I seem to have pots where most of the plants died but a few are alive and thriving. Not sure why the difference - probably should make some hypotheses I can test this fall. All winter I've been saving the coffee cups from the coffee shop in the village. "Compostable" is written in big letters on the side of them. Why not use them to start new plants? Whenever I'm cleaning up the geraniums in spring, I inevitably snip off a stem by accident or need to prune a plant. I know that these little bits of plant material, placed in soil and watered, can easily grow into new plants. Usually I don't have places to stick them back into dirt but w/ these cups I can repot them and give them a little extra care to get them going. Might try selling them for the library's slush fund before Mother's Day. The garden poles are also stored in Sleipnir and I considered setting them out. Looked at the forecast. Nights will be below freezing the rest of the week and one day we might get more snow. Too early to set out the garden poles and too early for this bout of Spring fever I'm having. Still it was a nice day, so Whip and I drove into the village for lunch w/ the car's moon roof open.
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