hey i thought april showers bring me flowers what's this
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welcome back to pine meadows hobbic farm i'm your host jerry hansen
i feel inspired to set the christmas tree up and hang up the christmas lights
what's with this this is april 11th yep folks april 11th taking a little bit of refuge in
the greenhouse i got some plants i could start in here today and uh at least start the germination
process because this is not supposed to last very long um supposed to get warm again here pretty
soon and then time to get started busy planting i got cold weather crops already planted early
because they grow best in the cold and other plants i'm just seeds i'm just germinating
so to share with you guys a little bit about the germination what i'm doing is i took
a paper towel water in a ziploc bag and put seeds in there to get them started i do have the heater
in the greenhouse which i'm going to turn it up because it is 450 degrees in the greenhouse but
it's like 36 degrees outside weird so just to give you a quick overview of what i got started on here
i got birdhouse gourds i'm going to be planting those on my fence that i'm going to be repairing
and i'm just going to cover that back fence with um gourds birdhouse gourds and then we're just
going to make a bunch of birdhouses for the homestead maybe sell some started celery seed
eggplant
and minnesota [ __ ] seeds uh minnesota [ __ ] cantaloupes is what i've got started here
and then in this one this last one i have um
comfrey seeds i got some comfrey seeds went online and ordered some i'll be propagating comfrey and
planting that around the homestead because it's good for poultices and it's also good
high protein for your livestock i'm also going to be planting some more herbs out in
the pastures for the goats i i both goats are lactating now and uh they have babies
we did lose another little baby uh of the second batch so she's just got the two the
little boy and little girl but we lost one of the little boys which was a shame but uh it uh
it happens it does but well look what i've got growing in here i can start harvesting my
salad crops because i've got those growing and ready to harvest already my tomatoes are coming up
my melons and my squash are coming up i'm saving those those are growing in the buckets they're
going to stay in the buckets they're just going to move them outside to the garden uh when the
weather starts staying warm enough i don't want to lose them into frost and then but over here we've
got the other uh vegetation my wife's got some plants up there on that top shelf uh she's doing
aloe um she's growing aloe plants and hopefully they'll do okay out here and we can make them
you know propagate them and sell them that's that's her hobby so i think this is weird
just we're supposed to just have more warm showers to bring the mayflowers that this is
not concerning
not at all it's okay just changes things up a little bit complicates things a little bit
but what are you gonna do not can't do the thing except sit here and walk and watch it pile up oh
my i remember one year it snowed on the fourth of july they had to cancel fourth of july fireworks
and that was back i believe in 1980 and that was due to a volcano in russia up around siberia that
erupted and put so much ash into the atmosphere that we ended up having a vulcan winter right
in the middle of summer so it happens so here we are enjoy i'm your host jerry hansen this is pine
meadows hobby farm where a frugal homestead tucked up in the cascade ranges of the pacific northwest
one thing is really good about this snow is if we get a good snowpack on the mountains it'll help us
ease through uh because they were expecting a really bad drought and our reservoirs would get to
fill up a little bit a little bit more uh water in the bank if you will so it's welcome i'm okay with
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um be safe always be kind enjoy the weather make the best of it bye bye now
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