It’s in the 70’s here now, too, and the long range forecast (15 days) from Accuweather shows a very mild spell.
I got my peas and some lettuce in. I started some tomatoes way too early this year and they’re huge now; some are even flowering. I thought that they would go to waste except that now I can take the chance of planting them outside. We have plenty of buckets to cover them with if it gets cold.
If a freeze gets them, I have more back up and I’m no further behind that I would normally be. If it doesn’t I could have tomatoes at least a full month before I normally would have expected.
We’re planning on roto-tilling the garden tomorrow. YIPPEE!!
What a lot of clean up from the winter though!!!!
My tomatoes are out in the garden and three of them are flowering. They are only about a foot tall. Should I let them just bloom or should I nip them in the bud untill the plant gets bigger?
Home grown tomatoes. Yum.
We have over 30 tomato (and some patios in pots) plants in the garden. Some have golf ball sized fruit already. I planted about 25 seeds in a bucket thinking maybe 1/2 would come up, and every one came up. I gave several of those away to my neighbor.
Of course, we bought the patio tomato plants. Then the wife ordered some heirloom plants and we got a double shipment. That was another 20 or so plants. Cucumber plants have runners starting, strawberries are yummy already and pepper plants are going crazy.
We’ve got the mid-70s weather today and tomorrow, then the rain comes in and the the temps go back to the (very) low 60s.
Hubby got the kitchen garden taken care of today — I’ve got more parsley than even I know what to do with!!!
Unfortunately I’m not going to have time to deal with it until Monday — and this is just killing me.