Basil and calendula seedlings enjoying their sunny window. Annabel (age 3.5) helped me put the pellets in the continers, plant the seeds and water them.
Kumquats defiantly grow in New Hampshire in March. There was also a lime but it found its way into a gin and tonic.
A calamondin orange, aloe, sago palm, cyclamen, gerber daisy and a ceramic frog share the sunlight.
I grew up with March in Portland, Oregon. Since college, I’ve been trying to get used to March in New England. My parents would call from home and complain about having to mow the lawn. I’d look out the window while hearing this gripe and WISH I had a lawn to mow instead of having snow to shovel and ice to contend with. As a compromise, and for some ‘green sanity,’ every year I grow seedlings in March. I need the green. This past winter I saved takeout containers from our various Thai and Chinese orders. With a few seed packets and a package of peat pellets, there were sprouts — and the hope of spring — emerging in a few days. Annabel checks their progress daily.
