<p>The temp. was up in the mid seventies today with a clear blue sky, but very breezy. I still had plants in the cold frame and I wanted to clear them all out, I keep thinking I will have all those plants put in the garden, and everytime I look there are still plants in there. So today was the day to finally finish that task. I had a few Cosmos, very few, the germination on them was terrible. I planted lots of seeds and ended up with a handful of plants, some Sensation and some dwarf Cutesy. I have them in a cuple of locations hoping to at least see what the blooms look like to see if I like them or not.</p>
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<p><img class="thumb" style="margin: 5px;" src="http://garden.org/pics/2014-04-10/Seedfork/9abae6-250.jpg" alt="2014-04-10/Seedfork/9abae6" width="250" height="250" border="0" /><img class="thumb" style="font-size: 1em; margin: 5px;" src="http://garden.org/pics/2014-04-10/Seedfork/6096e8-250.jpg" alt="2014-04-10/Seedfork/6096e8" width="250" height="250" border="0" /></p>
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<p>I have plenty of purple coneflowers already but I still had a couple of dozen in the cold frame, so I transplanted all of those. Some I did individually and some I just planted the whole clump of seedlings in one hole. The purple coneflowers I have returning from last year are loading up with green blooms, hopefull they will start showing some color shortly. I need to pay attention and see just how long it takes them, I never seem to notice those things and then I wonder about it every year. </p>
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<p><img class="thumb" style="font-size: 1em; margin: 5px;" src="http://garden.org/pics/2014-04-10/Seedfork/feea99-250.jpg" alt="2014-04-10/Seedfork/feea99" width="250" height="250" border="0" /><img class="thumb" style="font-size: 1em; margin: 5px;" src="http://garden.org/pics/2014-04-10/Seedfork/618702-250.jpg" alt="2014-04-10/Seedfork/618702" width="250" height="250" border="0" /></p>
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<p>The next big thing to get cleared out of the cold frame were the tomatoes, I still had Beefsteaks about 12 inches tall growing in small containers, so I set about half a dozen out down in the bog area. I hate to say it but I still have tomates in the cold frame, hoping I can find someone to give the rest too. I had a few volunteer tomatoes pop up so I put them down in the bog bed also. I had tomatoe cages for all of them, but not enough stakes for all that many cages, so I just put five of the Beefsteaks in the cages and staked them down.</p>
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<p>That cleared the cold frames with the exception of a few tomaotes left in one. </p>
<p>There were three noid ferns growing in the shade bed that returned from last year and they multiply so fast I wanted them out of that bed, so I dug those three ferns and potted them up. I set them in my fern pot ghetto with the other ferns, they are sort of in a little nursery areas for ferns.</p>
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<p>My Autumn fern I had planted last year is really doing super, I took a pic to remind me how this plant looks as it is putting out the new fronds.</p>
<p>The new Lady Victoria fern I just got recently is starting to green up and grow and form a nice looking plant.</p>
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<p>The only thing I did to the new compost pile today was to dampen it a little with the hose. Oh, and I did clean up by some of my edging and tossed that soil over onto the compost pile. Speaking of edging, I finally finished up adding the plastic edging I started about a month ago down in the bog. I also was able to get the entire edging done for the east side shade bed with the new ferns (I'll get pics of that tomorrow). I marked off one more area to add the plastic edging to, that is by the east side gate, I'll tacke that job first thing in the morning while it is still cool. I think that entire bed is only about 30 to 40 feet.</p>
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