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Wellness Wednesday for January 11, 2023

The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:

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So the spinach, kale, chard, and even broccoli in my garden is all putting on new growth, which is incredible given that it was all under a foot of snow in 10F temps over Christmas, and the chard was literally a liquefied rotting mess.

I was about to tear out some flowering broccoli when a humming bird flew up and started slurping on it. In January!

Think I'm going to start my spring planting this weekend. Temps in the high 40s to low 50s. Should be able to throw enough cold frames together ahead of any freezing spells, which will probably happen in Feb after the la Nina stops pulling all this hot wind up from the south east.

Pasture has already put on 3-4", which is a miracle after a dry fall with no rebound. Was worried I hadn't put away enough hay, but maybe it'll be alright.