Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 8 Entries. Friday, March 29 View Page Planning for three AG plants on my patch this year. (There will also be some potatoes growing in the parts where thereīs still the rye cover.)   Saturday, March 30 View Page Covered the plant sites with transparent plastic sheets today, now it is the sunīs turn to do a good job and push some heat into the soil.   Saturday, March 30 View Page On my way back from the patch I discovered an early "Easter egg" in my garden. The first little pansy flower popped open in the lawn.   Sunday, April 7 View Page Patch today ...so far it looks :)   Sunday, April 7 View Page Closer inspection of the plant sites' covers made me come to the conclusion :( ...after so many years of using that method for a first soil warm-up (and never having problems with damaged covers) some birds must have been so curios to learn how to pick some worms and critters from underneath the cover.   Sunday, April 28 View Page Patch today :) Now the exciting time begins. This year I decided to start the seeds a week later than usual, because in past years I made the experience that after transplanting weather had been cold and cloudy for a while and the seedlings were just sitting rather than growing. Good decision, this year it was cold and cloudy around April 20th, but since yesterday weīve got plenty of sunshine, nice warm weather, and forecast looks great for the next five days. Hence, today the seedlings (which are just about showing their 2nd true leaf) went into the patch. My line-up is: The usual 1007.5* Wagler squash (and my kids will be growing their 989.3* Wagler squash), my 636(uow) from last year (it is 1944 Connolly x 1908.1 Baumert, I think there should be some great potential in that seed, time will tell) and, last but not least, 2131.9 Wuersching. The latter is for both big-and-orange (hopefully) and as a reference point in terms of potential for comparison with my 636.   Sunday, April 28 View Page Here we are now, the three favorites and their back-ups (same cross in each case) in the back. The heating cables wonīt be needed for the next few days, itīs pretty warm right now. End of next week I will need them, though, to keep it cosy warm in the huts.   Sunday, April 28 View Page Thatīs what the soil temperature looks like today. The plant sites had been covered with clear plastic, and that really helped to get the soil to some decent temperature in the course of the past few days (in spite of the rather cold weather). With the nice warm weather ahead that soil temperature shouldnīt drop too much within the next five days. At least, thatīs one of my big hopes for now.