My brother picked up the single glass shower door that I bought at auction last week, thinking it was a folder. One sheet of plywood, some Styrofoam for insulation and a little paint should combine with that to create a cold frame. Sis has a green thumb, if her houseplants aren't lying to me, so I'm trying to talk her into starting some plants from seed.
For the last few weeks I've seen 40% off signs on specific seed displays. With the brown and green winter we've had this year, it's very tempting to forget that February still has quite a while to go. Yesterday I finally finally gave in to the urge, gathered a BIG handful of various annuals and made my way to the check-out stand. $40+ later, I'm ready to make a trip north at the first of the week.
Today I picked up three bags (24 ounces each) of wildflower seeds mixed with some filler material. The instructions talk about how to prepare the seed beds, but I will probably ignore them completely. My thought is to chain the old bedspring behind a vehicle and drag it around the pasture a bit to loosen the winter thatch and scratch up the surface of the soil a bit. Then we will scatter the seed over the areas that have been disturbed. Three bags isn't much, but it's somewhere to start. ~~ Several years ago we were fighting "horse weeds" like crazy. In April (before they got a start for the season) I turned the grandkids loose with small boxes of wildflower mix from the drugstore and told them to scatter it wherever they could see dirt among the grass roots. A few weeks later we had patchy flowers, with less weed growth than before.
I'm hoping to get started on a hugelbeet or two within a month. There are places where some chainsaw work needs to be done before putting fruit trees in the ground. Planting season here can be as early as Easter. Other than cool weather crops, everything should be in the ground before Memorial Day. I'm getting as excited as a kid who has finally gotten through Thanksgiving and knows Christmas will be coming soon.