The Best Laid Plans

[Collector]

sorry for your troubles, if any consolation my garden still to wet to till. Not sure what I gonna do about it. I see I have company in the garden blues.

 

[Nyboy]

Yesterday we got 3 inches of rain in only a couple of hours. Roads where closed because they where under water.

 

[thistlebloom]

So Lucky, you have a pretty long season (compared to mine) will you be able to start again and still get a harvest?

 

[aftermidnight]

Another cool very wet spring here, if it doesn't smarten up it's going to be another year without ripe tomatoes. The sun actually came out a couple of days ago and it did feel spring like for a few hours. Yesterday it was back to cool but accompanied by high winds, not the springs we're used to up here.

Annette

 

[ducks4you]

My MIL, who grew up in the (first) Depression in Brownstown, IL didn't put out HER tomato plants (in Decatur) until Memorial Day.
Also, you might try planting in rotted manure/compost. IT drains, but clay doesn't.
Isn't it nice that you can buy more?

 

[Nyboy]

Ducks my aunts and uncles use to say the same, don't plant tomato till Memorial Day

 

[so lucky]

Yes, Memorial Day used to be the target around here too, but it seems the trend has been to try to get stuff in earlier and earlier. The seasons just seem to be so messed up, the last decade or so.
I do have plenty of time to put out more plants if the ones I have in now succumb to the wet ground. It's just the principle, I guess.

 

[Smart Red]

D-I-L seems to be taking a liking to the homestead since I went to Washington and left her in charge of all the livestock and work. She brought home dozens of started plants for setting in the garden . . . . soon, but not too soon. Not gonna risk a frosty morning taking out her efforts.

This morning she posted FaceBook photos of the beauty of spring in the front yard as if it were the best sight she could imagine.

 

[Zeedman]

She brought home dozens of started plants for setting in the garden . . . . soon, but not too soon. Not gonna risk a frosty morning taking out her efforts.

Good call... frost advisory tonight for much of the state. The below-normal temps are preventing me from moving my nightshades out into the solar greenhouse, they are getting crowded under the lights (and I need to start more transplants soon).

My target date for transplanting (and direct seeding warm-weather crops) has always been Memorial Day too. However, my target date for tilling & prepping the garden has been when the dandelions bloom - and that day has come & gone. In recent years, those April showers seem to hang on until mid-June... and it never really stopped raining all Summer last year. Way too early to panic yet, but I'm hoping that the weather warms & the soil dries out so planting can be on schedule this year.

 

[digitS']

Another cool very wet spring here, if it doesn't smarten up it's going to be another year without ripe tomatoes. The sun actually came out a couple of days ago and it did feel spring like for a few hours. Yesterday it was back to cool but accompanied by high winds, not the springs we're used to up here.

Annette

We had a small family gathering in Seattle, yesterday. DD put a MBA arrow in her quiver - what a lovely, sunny day. DS, from rainy Portland went on to BC for a brief vacation while DD stayed to celebrate with friends on the "Wetside" of WA. I hope they and you have a few more warm spring days.

It's just the principle, I guess.

We become attached to our plants. As gardeners, I suppose that is as it should be. Imagine my anxiety at turning off the furnace, opening the greenhouse and hoophouse, lifting the ends of the hoopies all at 3:30am and leaving for a 10 hour round trip with commencement ceremonies and a nice lunch at an "Irish pub" in The Emerald City!!!

Pollyanna ~ Imagine my good fortune that here at home, it rained much of the day and an afternoon high in the mid-50's followed a morning low in the mid-40's!

Steve