3 degrees last night. got the stove going, and have started the onion and super hot seedlings in the makeshift seedling greenhouse in the living room. looking forward to may, when the cold hardies can be planted. last year was weird weather. i believe it was early June when fag puss Trudeau lit all the wildfires in canada at the same time. the vortex over the Northeast pulled the smoke down and made for a cool summer, clouds, and a lot of rain, all fucking summer. i only watered the raised beds, but never had to water any garden beds all summer because it rained every other day. The cucumbers were by far the prize crop of 2023. i had given up on cukes, but the neighbor gave me some spare seedlings and they went off like gangbusters. i’ll be planting some again in case pedo zog lights fires again. Onions produced well. The onion size was not great due to lack of sun, but the volume was still good. I still have a ton in the basement. I kindof like the smaller onions because they are perfect meal-size. Garlic also did very well. I had plenty to re-plant and plenty to last the winter. I’m a big fan of the Music variety. Raspberries bushes grew huge, but fruit was rotting quickly with all the rain. I also transplanted a lot of shoots and some new varieties my pops got us. i feel like 2024 is going to be an epic raspberry ywar. I got enough hot peps to make a few batches of hot sauce. They obviously would have done better with more sun. 2024 is year 3 for the fruit trees. i’ll be disappointed if we don’t see a handful of cherries, plums, and peaches this year. i’ve also got some big plans for tiered beds on the sunny hill in the back yard. got a load of compost and topsoil ready to go when it defrosts. hope yall are taking advantage of whatever space you have to grow food. there’s no shame in picking up seedlings from the garden center if you aren’t starting your own.