The last frost date is this coming Saturday and I'm DYING. Of course it has to be the nicest, most titillating garden week ever. I went ahead and planted some seeds this past weekend, I figure that if they pop up before the frost I can toss a bed sheet over them no probs. I planted blue-podded peas, winter lutz beets, cosmic purple carrots, small purple onions, and a ton of herbs.
What's left to plant are the lettuce and my seedlings. They need to get outside so bad, and I've been putting them out during the day, but eeeek they need outta those little pots. Some of them have said "to hell with it" and have start blossoming. Come ON already, May!
Of course, I want May to fly by for gardening purposes, but for everything else I'm begging it to slow down. I have four big things happening right now that will more or less wrap up as the month ends. This is when space-time manipulation powers would come in really handy.
Anyway, on to recent planty progress:
One of my silver fir tomato plants (heirloom, with foliage like carrots!) has decided to go for it. It's about a foot and a half tall, so I'm not pinching them. I'm happy that we might have tomaters early though!
This is my summer squash. It wants wide open spaces asap. The melons are coming up nicely too. I can't wait to get them out!
One of my pepper plants, the variety of which I've actually forgotten because I tossed the package after I planted them. Anyway, it's looking busy too, and will hopefully actually produce something, unlike that weird robot-pepper plant I bought at the flea market last year.
I'm sooooooooooooooooooooo excited about my garden this year! Next week is going to be AWESOME.
I am surprised you are in for a frost this late, I guess Edmonton has some advantages. The list is short.
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