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Early Spring Snow in the Garden for Movie Monday

When I was in first grade, the teacher put something new on the bulletin board for each month. March was lions and lambs. She said March weather either "comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb" or it "comes in like a lamb and goes out like a lion". She was right. This year we got the lamb then lion version.

The beginning of the month showed great promise of spring to come with warm temperatures. This last week of March is supposed to be below freezing every night and highs only in the 40's. Yesterday we even woke up to some snow. I hope it doesn't hurt the flowers that were already in bloom. These look pretty sad:

As for how the snow affected the vegetable garden, that is the topic of this week's Movie Monday, although the video was actually taken yesterday.

Luckily since it is spring, the snow was gone by the time we got back from church. I covered everything again last night to protect the plants from frost.

Forcast for next Monday's weather is high of 63 degrees. That's much better!

The very first GardenDesk Movie Monday!

I'm really trying to expand my record keeping in the garden this year. That means writing down many things that go on - good and bad. I used to write down everything and even had a desk out in the garden that I could sit at and write at, hence the name of this blog.

Unfortunately I haven't managed to write things down for the past few years, so I thought that I could videotape the garden's progress as a reminder of what went on.

I have two teenage daughters who are more up-to-date with technology than me. They say I should put my videos on YouTube. So even though this is scary for me, I will share my videos of this years garden progress with you as well.

Weekends are the best time for me to take the videos so I will post to YouTube as often as possible on Mondays.

I'm calling it Movie Monday and here is its debut! So I present to you the first
GardenDesk 2011 Movie Monday!

The garden doesn't have much in it yet but now that Spring is here, it won't be long until it is full of green! Check back each Monday to see more GardenDesk Movie Monday videos!

Thanks and Keep Growing!

-Marc