Upstate New York (Rochester)
Usually we don’t plant until Memorial Day up here, for fear of late frost. But this year I am getting started three weeks ahead of time.
Already put out about a dozen seven gallon container potted plants, assorted annuals so that I’m surrounded by various purple flowers when I have the morning coffee.
This week has been raking, trimming back tall grasses (shame ofnme for slothness in not doing it last fall!), cleaning out beds. I have three more beds to prepare and an overgrown hill to try to tame with fabric and mulch.
I hope to get all my planting in within a week. A sudden frost would really wreck me but I’m going to roll the dice.
I have almost always waited until end of May too. However, last year was such a heat furnace, that I thought it might be best to plant some stuff for harvest by June 1 in case we get a repeat of last summer’s heat and drought.