Home | How It Works | Ideas | Calendar | Newsletter | Contact Hodgson Biologic Calendar Upcoming Events There are no events. Hodgson Biologic 2 Klarides Village Drive Box 205 Seymour, Connecticut 06483 203-888-3898 In Connecticut's Naugatuck Valley April, 2009 Show Full Year Event: Garden Chores for a Cold Spring Day Date: April 8th, 2009. Rich, beautiful compost - homemade! In these parts, it may not feel like spring to some of us. This morning I was tending a raised bed when dozens of tiny, cold, white things started falling on me. Sigh. Snow. Just a few dozen flakes, but it was snow. Don't let the chilly early spring lull you into putting off plant orders. If this is the year for that bush cherry or hazelnut or kiwi or those mountain cranberries, find your supplier right away and find out if the plants you want are still available. It is good to be cautious about putting tender plants out too soon, and latest spring frost dates have yet to pass for this area. In the meantime, work on your compost, rake out and start to prepare areas you will be planting in a few weeks. Build some planters. Get your mulch in order. I realized that one area I will be working in is going to be occupied by black flies before too long. I want to get everything done in that area that I can, before those little biters emerge from their watery cocoons in the brook! Now would be a good time to finalize your plans and start setting up fence, trellises, rain barrels, irrigation systems (simple or complex). Garlic could use a little nitrogen before too long - is it handy? Keep going outside and looking around. Take some pictures. Lay out paths, move rocks. Start some seeds indoors if you want to do that and have not started yet. It may be late for some plants, but not for others. Even plants that want an earlier start may be okay to start now, since some years the weather is unpredictable, and we may have a late spring after all. Set up a cold frame, a low tunnel, a high tunnel or a greenhouse. Make a sturdy pedestal for your solar cooker. Haven't got a solar cooker? Look into building one or buying one this year! Rummage through the attic or basement and find containers that can be repurposed into clever little planters for the window, deck, patio, or here and there around the yard. How is your supply of diatomaceous earth? The slugs will come out when it warms up just a little more. DE works best when you use it before the slugs find the lettuce (take it from one who knows . . . .). Compost can be placed around perennials now. April, 2009 Show Full Year

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