April 23rd: It’s Still Cold! (Don’t Trust Your Garden Calendar)

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Official Recommendations from Seattle Tilth’s Maritime Northwest Garden Guide (https://tilthalliance.org/product/maritime-northwest-garden-guide-2/) and Oregon State University’s Garden Calendar (https://extension.oregonstate.edu/gardening/techniques/april-garden-calendar)
What’s popping in the garden this week: pansies, azaleas, red flowering currant, periwinkle, flowering fruit trees like plum and quince, camelia.
Work this week: Checking in on seed starts, set up my outdoor greenhouse, planted out nasturtium starts with a fun surprise, mystery tubers, and results of my overwinter bedding. Plastic greenhouse link - (this one is even cheaper than the one I got but the same style: https://www.amazon.com/HOMGARDEN-Greenhouse-Portable-Roll-Up-Outdoors/dp/B07CWNS81C/ref=asc_df_B07CWNS81C/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=309769305053&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=2228797719648447051&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9033483&hvtargid=pla-589776709630&th=1)
The Dirt: Is it really as cold as we complain it is? Why yes! Planting out and soil temperature, soil temperature charts from GreenCast (https://www.greencastonline.com/tools/soil-temperature), when to plant warm plants, dandelion trick from the Maritime gardening podcast (https://maritimegardening.com), germination range chart from Alabama A&M (https://www.aces.edu/blog/topics/lawn-garden/soil-temperature-conditions-for-vegetable-seed-germination/).

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