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It's hard to think about my spring garden today, when everything outside is covered in ice. Tim's tried to save the last of the fall crop with greenhouse tents, but I'm not sure if it will be good enough. The goldfinches seem happy at least for the thistle seed we provide, even with the icicles dangling from their feeder! Just last week the highs reached 80 degrees--this week, lows might be single digits. Just before the freezing rain arrived, Tim built the frame for a third raised bed in our back yard. I'm still deciding what to plant in it. While we're stuck inside the next five or six days, I'll decide. I suspect within a couple of weeks, it'll be back up to the 70s or 80s. Sheesh. Climate change. We haven't had very good luck in the past several years with tomatoes (here, or in Oklahoma), and that's the crop I most want to be good. I always have plentiful herbs (basil, cilantro, oregano, thyme, rosemary, and parsley), which I use frequently in cooking, but my best success last year was with flowers. I had beautiful cosmos, zinnias, and snapdragons. From July to late September, I had a bouquet of garden flowers in a vase all the time and gave bouquets to friends and family. The colors cheer me up. I plan to plant more of them this year as well. If the tomatoes refuse to yield again, at least I'll have my beautiful flowers! --Janice
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