Actually, I'm allowing myself a bit of enthusiasm after the gardening disaster that was 2009.
I've got perhaps 2 dozen baby tomatoes already on the vine. I got the tomatoes in the ground on March 7 which is a personal record. Of course, early tomato-planting isn't necessarily something to strive for. More often than not, you'll get rewarded with an early spring freeze or at least a few weeks of cool weather that turn the plants into helpless bait for the aphids and pill bugs.
Granted, we got both the freeze and the cool days, but otherwise the weather has been perfect and here it is the end of April and I've got tomato-achella (yeah, I'm proposing that) going on back there. Meanwhile, the artichoke is producing small buds and the squash are enjoying their time in the sun before the reapers appear.
And I just got in from some late pepper planting -- 2 jalepeños, a poblano and a red bell. Still to come: okra from seed.
Granted, we got both the freeze and the cool days, but otherwise the weather has been perfect and here it is the end of April and I've got tomato-achella (yeah, I'm proposing that) going on back there. Meanwhile, the artichoke is producing small buds and the squash are enjoying their time in the sun before the reapers appear.
And I just got in from some late pepper planting -- 2 jalepeños, a poblano and a red bell. Still to come: okra from seed.
1 comments:
Good to see you blogging, I started reading last year during the worst gardening season ever. I'm a newbie gardener, 2nd year, living in Austin too. Thanks for the inspiration!
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