April Check-in

[Edson]

How's everybody doing on getting those gardens started?

I've got seedlings all over my house, and seed potatoes too, but the ground has been soaking wet all spring. Every time the mud puddles start to dry up, it rains again. I'm hopeful for this weekend. It's supposed to be unseasonably warm and sunny Thursday through Sunday. Of course they said that last week too...

[Katrien]

Same here. I set the lettuces out into the cold frame, which cleared a lot of space, but yesterday I potted up many of the seedlings, and now the "bank" is full again. I'll be able to sow more veggies when I get the spinach and maybe some onions (the fast growing crops) out into the cold frame, some of the perennial herbs that are hardy and ready out into the perennial beds, and the leek and celery into the one veg garden bed that is ready. The ten or so other beds await dry weather.

[Matt Mayer]

Things are going great for me, although we are having less rain than usual. Quite a bit less. I've got a ton of taters, broccoli and cabbage in the ground. And onions, man, the onions. I ordered 75 starts, which is probably 50 more than I need. I'll have a few to give away. I had so many I planted them in my front flower bed, I hope no one notices!

I try to follow Sharon's lead with the Independence Days challenge. I try to plant one thing each day. It makes the spring much easier to deal with.