We think we are going to even out in the 50s or 40s going forward. So transplanting will begin shortly - gotta let the soil dry out.
We had 1 1/2 inches of rain Friday night and Saturday. I was starting to worry about a long dry spell...
Greeting from west Michigan. Garden tilled once last week, should be doing it again this week. Cleaned out the asparagus bed really well. Daffodils in full bloom. Cut down 2 saplings that shaded my paw paw trees too much. Put in fruit tree food spikes - 8 of them for the 4 trees. Fingers crossed for some first time fruit this year. Way earlier this spring I did a pruning on some lower branches and sealed them off with tree sealer. Looking ahead on the temps, next week the lows overnight will be in the low 40’s. Making me think we will not have a frost. So I’ll be planting my pea pod seeds after the second tilling this week and maybe putting in some broccoli seedlings, they would be easy to cover up. Also might start some radishes early. Also looking forward to the irises, cleaned about 300 pounds of cr@p last year that were choking them out. And they have been fertilized already. So off to a good start. Also started indoors san marzanos, bush cukes, costa rican red peppers and a few other special ones. Seems every year I look more forward to the garden and manage to do a better job. This year I am feeling really good physically. Best wishes to all for great gardens this year. Remembering someone’s post about either a Japanese or Chinese proverb that said the best thing to put in your garden is your shadow.