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What summer? This is Scandinavia. Last year summer fell on a thursday. Try to plant a tomato outdoors here and it'll , to quote the Grateful Dead, "Just fade away".

So, spring has finally sprung. No more night frost. So I transplanted all the seedlings out to the poly tunnel. Funny how they look so small and puny, yet in 3 months they are ready to invade Poland............Lebensraum!!!

That, my friend, is simply a wine nerd thing. Unexplainable to normal human beings. But to put it short, you are right.

Really, they have pre-phylloxera vines. That is really far out. I'd love to taste their wine. I have, of course, tasted lots of Madeira and back in the dark ages bought a case of Portuguese Colares tinto together with a friend. That was honestly not something to write home about, but still an...

It is 12 degrees below freezing right now. Take a hell of a tent to deal with that, I think.

I don't have a place with the right temperature for that, or I would do it. I'm trying with Habanero peppers this year, but the cold we are having now, has put an end to that, I fear.

I ran a forestry nursery at one time, so I have a pretty good idea of why they are leery about people importing unchecked plant material from other continents. DISEASES!!!!! Remember how the American chestnut got wiped out, the Dutch Elm disease and the Hymenoscyphus fraxineus fungus that are...

Me, too. It'll be about 4 weeks before I start sprouting stuff for the poly tunnel, indoors under growth lights. BVy then i should be out of the cast and the last shipment of seeds should be here. They had to take a detour by way of California. I have bought seeds from these guys for years, they...

Snow.