You are at the time when it is really easy to be impatient, and have lots of spring fever. It used to catch me down here, and I’d wind up putting stuff out too soon.
My hyacinths have bloomed and are kinda dying down. Still have some tulips and daffodils, but those are beginning to get spent too.
So far the only thing that is out and into the ground is the potatoes, garlic, chives, and lavender. Everything else is either in starter cups or planting pots so they can be taken in or out as needed, but it shouldn’t be long now.
We too are knee deep in clean up after winter storms.
Indeed! After 27 years I whole-heartedly believe the local wisdom that you don’t plant anything tender outside before Memorial Day. And then you must get everything in that week, or else it won’t have the opportunity to grow and bloom, or fruit, before winter! You can’t really deviate from that schedule too much without engendering heartbreak.