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Our last frost is sometime in May :( but I planted out well before that last year because I would see no end in sight lol. I just covered everything haha.

Aw darn, well you could still make them little teepee polytunnels lol. It's become a necessity with our erratic spring weather here. Last year I covered about 15 newly planted blackberry bushes with a small polytunnel when I heard we were getting snow in I think it was April. I did the same with...

11 degrees celcius out today! Beautiful and sunny and even the pastures aren't so bad off with the mud as they were last year. I checked the weather network's predictions and it looks like a pretty good month, so I think if the weather is good, the first week of April I'm going to start direct...

Do you plant in raised beds? If so you could put a polytunnel frame on them and set it up about an hour before sunset or in the late afternoon and you could keep the heat in overnight if you're worried :)

I'm going to try planting some corn under a polytunnel this year. I'll build a few extra 4x4ft beds and start my experiment in one of the 4x4ft beds with the polytunnel on it. Lets see how early I can start them! .. I checked under the poly tunnel today and its really toasty under there! I might...

:cool: I planted my tomatoes around the end of April last year under a poly-tunnel on my raised bed and I had tomatoes pretty early, and my plants were enormous!

Looking great boggy! I'm addicted to the raised beds now lol

Ooo I have to dormant spray my fruit trees soon-ish. My big lilac bush has green buds on it now, and my dormant spray kit says just before the buds start to turn green on a warm, non-windy day so probably in the next week or so. The dormant spray kit has neem oil in it.

I might start some Tomatoes tonight... Or peas... whatever lol, I've got nothing to do and we tend to buy plants from HD for tomatoes, and the rest direct sowed.

Morning Hattie! Isn't it like 5:30am there?

But surely you could paint some stakes light blue to attract ladybugs ;) I know we have more than enough ladybugs out here, they're all camping out in my house this winter. I think I'm going to go red with my beds. Our farm colour is burgandy red and all of our pasture gates are red, etc.

I'm painting all my raised beds dark chocolatey brown :) Or deep red, LOL I still can't decide.

No :( I didn't. My wood froze to the ground sometime around January so I couldn't make the beds until this last week when everything started to thaw out LOL. I had Tomatoes in mid April last year because I put up polytunnels on the beds. I'll be able to start my peas a bit earlier than most with...

Some people do! ... I can start Peas and lettuces soon XD

:cool: mine is still covered in snow... My raised beds are going in... wee... But this is what my front garden looks like right now...

I suppose it is whatever you can get. I can *get* cedar but it is VERY expensive, sometimes almost triple the price of pine despite being in cedar country out here. Hemlock is cheap, cheaper than pine BUT it is VERY hard and hard to screw/nail into.

Cedar is a good, but expensive option. Hemlock is said to not be liked by many, if any, bugs because it is so hard. I'm using Pine on my raised beds, painted, because its hard enough to find rough cut cedar, and I can't afford it anyway! I may next year start replacing some of my older beds...

With corn, would you be able to start them earlier if you had raised beds and plastic poly-tunnels on them? I've been heating up my beds with polytunnels, I did it last year and was able to plant out my tomatoes almost a month earlier than most people did. Could you realistically plant your...

PEAS are the ultimate beginner veggie! Thats why you see so many kindergarten classrooms using the peas for the "light experiment" Beans are great too. Buy your Tomatoes from the nursery, if you don't have the optimum conditions it can be a little difficult. I buy my tomatoes from the...

;) Hattie, I filled the two enormous ones last year. Ugh, now that was a pain! We spent the day hauling wheel barrows from the truck to the garden and the truck to the front garden. This year I'm having it delivered by one of those big dump trucks to down by my barn, and we'll fill up our lawn...