Oh good grief (jealousy reigns supreme!). And here I was excited because I PLANTED my garden today! Welcome to NW Iowa, I guess!

But I have a pretty big list of things that I got out there, including tomato plants, peppers, leaf and head lettuce, cabbage, carrots, radishes, brussels sprouts, kale, swiss chard, bush beans (don't like pole beans), fava beans... I still have to get the sweet corn planted, and all of the viney, spreading plants in another area: watermelon, pumpkins, zucchini, acorn and butternut squash, canteloupe, cucumbers.
And the beets and turnips will wait until late July for planting and I'll probably do more radishes and carrots, too, later on...they get sweeter with a frost over them first - and around here frost hits about late September to mid-October...SOOOO unpredictable!
What *is* predictable is the spring weather as we watch all of our neighbors' gardens get wiped out by a late frost or spring storm...they haven't figured it out yet, I guess.
-Sarah