Posted on 04/07/2015 6:13:16 AM PDT by orsonwb
The most important factor in determining when to plant a certain type of vegetable in your garden is the “Last Freeze Date” in the spring for your area...
(Excerpt) Read more at howdogardener.com ...
Got my early stuff in. Waiting a week or so for peppers, etc.
Planted just a few things last fall - piled on the mulch for the winter and they survived the record low freezes (and tons of rain/snow). Had some late season freeze damage and lost most of our blooms on the flowering shrubs. But they survived - and with a little black kow (the mature manure) - they will thrive...
As for veggies - unable to plant any due to too much shade. Though we may try an edible landscape in the front yard in the near future - just enough sun out near the road.
This year I wonder if it will ever even stop snowing. Thanks for the info.
My dad is in Central Texas and he follows the Farmer’s Almanac to a tee. Done it that way forever and it works!
Thanks!
I have wildflower seeds I’m planning on putting out along the creek bank in my back yard.
Here in PA there was frost on the car yesterday and approaching 70 today.
Thanks for the link. I’m pretty new to gardening, so was wondering about planting peas. They go in before the last freeze date, right? I just bought the seeds and was going to plant them, beets, potatoes and lettuce as soon as I could handle the temps outside. We had a few snow flakes yesterday, the wind was too cold for me.
I planted 4 tomato plants yesterday. started them indoors 1-2 months ago. If we were to get a late freeze I could cover them. (has happened, last year it did freeze on 1st of May).
... possible gardening ping.
Garden ping!
I’m in the Detroit area, and planted my snap peas on April 2nd. Did the same last year after an even harsher winter and they did great!
I do, however, plant them in a raised bed which has an improvised plastic ‘tunnel cover’ to help warm the air and keeps off any late heavy frost.
In general, peas are very tolerant of coldish weather and even light frost.
Cut the bottom out of a large soda bottle and you have a good cap for early tomatoes
Here in SW Pennsylvania we always wait till Mothers Day before planting.
Around here, I usually aim for the first weekend in April. My tomatoes and peppers went out this past weekend. Most of the tomatoes were ready to go about two weeks ago but we had a couple of cold nights near freezing and I didn’t want to chance it.
Thanks, my grandpa was a pea farmer (started a different business well before I was around) so my Mom should know. But the specifics are vague from her-she never grew peas, beets or potatoes in her garden.
Only a basic garden here, we use the “Back to Eden” method using wood chips so that may warm the soil up a bit, but not like a covered raised bed.
I need a last -15 date to plant onion bulbs.
Good luck Northstar Mom!
I plant a couple of varieties of snap peas — Supper Snappy & Super Sugar Snap. They’re so good, they rarely make it into the house, except maybe a few for a salad. I usually wind up eating them right off the vine in the morning, still moist with industrial-pollution dew! ;>)
It’s also a good time too think about other cool-weather crops, like cauliflower, radishes and carrots
Thanks but meaningless here in the high desert. Reno has had (historically) snow and/or a freeze in every month but August.
Here in LA (lower Alabama) I have the tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, herbs, zucchini in since about the 20th of March...everything is growing nicely!
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