Think its good to plant early?

I'm old school in that I will not normally plant until after may 5th. I already have some starts inside, and with weather in the 70's during the day, and 50's at night, I'm thinking a late frost might not happen. If that's the case, I would love to get in on the growing season early.

What could be safe to plant? Anything at all? North central WV does have some weird weather. But this early spring is not local. I'm eager to get my garden going. I want some green maters

I'd say plant what you want but keep some back to plant at your usual time. You might get lucky and have and early garden and you might lose what you have planted and have to start over because you planted early. I'd also try and have provisions on hand so that you could cover stuff up if the weather was going to threaten your garden. You've got a 50/50 chance, are you feelin' lucky......well are ya?

I'm too old of a bunny to fall for mother natures tricks.

You can plant cold tolerant stuff like green peas, onions , broccoli, cabbage, lettuce, spinach, carrots, radishes. probably some I forgot.

If you're going to put out tender stuff, you can use hooped row covers.

Good luck.

An early spring doesn't mean we won't still get a hard frost and lose everything. I'm sticking to my regular planting schedule.

Id say I am feeling lucky enough to plant a little. I just gotta make sure I have the plastic to cover what I have. I mean even if a hard frost comes along, I'm out of maybe $10 and a few hours. If it doesn't I'm sitting on homegrown veggies a month and a half early.

Stick with the frost tolerant stuff Waldo mentioned. That way even if it does freeze, you're still good. Warm weather stuff like tomatoes and peppers probably won't grow much due to the chilly nights anyway.

I planted about 45' of yellow onion sets today. Luckily, I had some ground that was tilled late last fall and I just poked holes in it with a tomato stake. Still way too wet to till.

I tried to beat mother nature, she won. So now I'm re-planting.

Soil temperatures also need to be considered. Air temperatures have been above normal but soils are still pretty cold. YMMV

I have tried to go early 3 times, lost twice. You might get lucky, but get ready to re plant.

You're well on your way to being an old bunny.

This is advice that more need to heed.

We have had above average winter temperatures, but I still would not plant before dates preferred for my region.

I went ahead and planted some corn.

It's a month early but 10 day forcast is 80s every day. If I lose it's only a few cents worth of seeds, if I win I'll be eating sweet corn in May

Woo Hoo! It's up!

still can't get into my garden to till, and more rain everyday........atleast the strawberries in the raised bed is doing good.

I'm a young bunny, and I just wait till mid May. I plant once, and harvest once

I have no idea what that means, but my kids and I had fun planting the seeds and watching them grow, I may have lost about a dollar, but now we get to have fun replanting and re-watching things grow. a buck is cheap fun, and we all learned something in the process.

Take a look at the weather map for Ohio right now. It went from 80* to frost and freeze warnings this week. That's why I didn't get too excited about planting anything. It was just a fluke.

This!
I got a fair sunburn tilling the gardens Friday afternoon: 85F
Spread a few yards of old compost on top, and will work it in next weekend.

Calling for mid 30s tonight!

Did plant lettuce and other cool weather stuff already, but can cover them if it gets too cold.

60's for the lows, 80s for the highs here in East Texas for the next week or more.

TRG

6 straight days of record setting highs near 80 last week, tonight 24 for the low. The fruit trees have broken bud and some of the plum trees are in bloom. I know a lot of fruit farmers that will have their fingers crossed tonight.

When I turned over the soil for my gourd patch, it was noticeably warm under my toes.

TRG

I'm not going to get sucked in.

But this will be the first time I will ever have to mow the lawn in March.


GM

This, getting ready to start my mowing job I do on the side. Normally it doesn't start till mid April....

Last year we planted seedlings during spring break (Mid march)

Of course, being in central Texas, our weather was good enough to get away with that. Haven't planted yet this year, but probably will in the next 2 weeks.

Nothing but 80s predicted here in the DFW area for the next week.

Unless we get a freak snowstorm, I think we are in the clear in this part of Texas.

TRG

Yep. I'm planning on planting this weekend.

Me too unless it rains. Got cabbage, lettuce, broccoli, cauliflower, peas, onions, and Swiss chard to get in.

My tomatoes were getting too big so I put 23 in the ground this evening. I held back 30 just in case.

My first wave of corn is pushing 6" tall.

I hope we don't get a frost

We are planting some stuff earlier than usual, spinach peas, potatoes and carrots are in. We are waiting a bit for the bulk of it although. We still have seed leftover from round 1 of what we planted, hope we can get 2 rounds of peas this year before it gets to hot

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It started raining on me yesterday and is still drizzling today. I may or may not get to plant this weekend.

Burbs of Detroit here. I prepped my beds with fresh compost the last few days and got seeds in last night. Its raining hard right now!

Carrots
Swiss Chard
Beets
Radish
different lettuces
snow peas
green onions

I'll buy tomato and pepper plants in a few weeks.

K

I couldn't stand it anymore. Planted pole and bush beans, cucs, zucs and squash this week. Easy to replant if screwed up by moma nature.

I still refuse to plant maters or peppers before April 21.

Trying to get the wife to plant the cold weather stuff, she will probably just wait till May, we have some seedlings started though... our asparagus crowns showed up yesterday so we will need to get those in the ground

We had frost and winds the other day so I used some thin plastic painters tarps to protect the square foot gardens (SFG). Sorry for the blurry picture but it was really windy. I used PVC pipe for the frame in
the 4' x 4' SFG and some ground wire for the frame in the 3' x 3' SFG. You should have seen me trying to attach the tarps in the 40mph gusts of wind.


Here's a better picture


What the garden looked like before I covered it with the painters tarp


I only planted cool weather crops: broccoli, cauliflower, spinach, cabbage and red leaf lettuce. The sage, thyme, lemon grass, sorrel and parsley were planted last spring and survived the winter in the garden.
I'd love to be able to plant my tomato, pepper and cucumber seedlings but currently it's in the low 40's with a misty rain. Much too cold for them.

I planted 16 Roma's yesterday 89 degrees here with no end in sight. It's a gamble but if the house wins I'll only be out a couple bucks.

I used the same strategy. Went ahead and planted everything including tomatoes and peppers gambling that we won't get another frost.

We planted today!

Rundown of all the plants on my blog at Texas 3Gs

Last year we just did tomatoes and peppers. Hopefully our squash, watermelon, herbs and strawberries do well this year too.

I'm covering up my tomatoes and corn tonight.

Weatherman is saying 38 but they don't guarantee anything

"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure!"

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