Gardening Adventure

I've decided to use this as an attempt to keep track of some of the more important aspects of growing these plants, so that if I decide to do it again in the future I have a reference to look back on. I've got a journal that I started by hand, starting April 30th. I'm a bit behind on many plants since they are already well on their way to being full grown, but I guess that will just have to do.

The weather in April was unseasonably nice, and it tricked a lot of people into hastening their garden plants outside. Perhaps "a lot of people" is an overstatement, but it tricked me. I planted out May 1. It's almost as if someone flipped a switch when May started and told the weather to go back to March. Maybe even the last part of February. Yesterday, on May 12th, the high temperature was about 42 degrees. That's just not right.

Needless to say, a frost hit my garden this past weekend. ALL my pumpkins are dead. All of them. I can start some more Howden's, but I have no more Prizewinner seeds left since there were only five in the packet. My unknown variety could probably be started again, but the seeds are four years old.

All the zucchini that I planted are also gone. I planted a dozen, but I still had a couple plants left over and they are relatively quick to start. I don't know if it is late to start zucchini and pumpkins, I'm guessing it probably is, but you live and you learn.

I'm guessing the corn is also croaked but since I planted it just sprouting roots at least I don't have to look at their dead corpses on the ground. Hopefully I have enough seed left.

The brassicae family, of course, held out through the frost.

When it was still in the 70's in April and the sun was still shining on occassion, I took some pictures. Here's the link to the album.

I started planting sometime in early March.

Tomorrow I'll add more about my more recent starts and perhaps a list of varieties.