Spring Garden Check-In
Two weeks of fake summer in early March really wreaked havoc on my spring garden. The cabbage moths came out in abundance, and all my cool season plants were ready to bolt from too much heat. But thankfully, our normal cool rainy spring returned and now all seems right with the world. Here's what's going on! In this bed, I've got arugula, carrots and lettuces in their prime. The large white cube in the background is my portable frost cover for the starts that got too big for indoors but aren't quite ready to plant yet. I cover them at night when night temps dip below 45 degrees. They will probably go in the ground around May 1st, once I can be (almost) sure we are past the real chills. My English peas are producing less than desirable results this year. For reasons even soil tests aren't explaining, this bed doesn't perform as well as the others. I probably could have planted twice the seeds. And the fake summer didn't help. But ther...
