What a difference a month makes

Just one month later and the April 1st snow is long forgotten. There are snap peas coming up, and lettuce, cilantro, spinach and chard.

Finally we have had a few days where it's not raining, snowing and/or generally cold. Yesterday I got kentucky pole beans, french filet beans, brussels sprouts, broccoli, and basil planted.

These are the good days when the sweetest reward is just the plant emerging from the ground...long before the fungus and blight and critters and hot/dry summer sucks the life out of everything and gardening becomes a daily fight for survival.

Spring planting

Seedlings from Russells in 4 inch pots: $3.99
Planted 6 tomato seedlings. From east to west: Yellow Pear, Better Boy, Purple Krim, Celebrity, Golden Girl, Smarty (grape).
Planted 3 egglants: 2 Black Beauties and an Ichiban
Planted 3 peppers: jalapeno, cubanelle, red bell
Planted 3 basil from home depot.
Planted red onions from Gus.
Also added Tarragon, Thyme, Parsley and Rosemary to the herb bed. I'll see if I can cage or bottle the rosemary to keep it alive through the winter...
Altogether spent another $57 on seedlings.
I also planted sweet corn in the southeast corner and started kentucky blue beans and french beans on a bean teepee. I've planted them in mounds and covered each mound with a milk jug. We'll see if that keeps the critters out. It was a little too windy today to transplant the bean seedlings from the sun porch, but they are 6 or 8 inches tall and ready to in the garden.