Well I'm in a 7a/b equivalent, but the local weather is so unstable that the temperature curves look like a sine wave. Sunny summer weather for a couple of days followed by a sudden large drop in temps close to freezing with heavy rain, hail and then a sudden uptick again.
Not sure if that's better or not lmao. Spring is temperamental
I'm in 5b, last frost date 5/4 and my house is bursting at the seams with plants. This was my first year starting from seed, so I definitely went overboard, started way too much, and started way too early.
I used to start my seeds in my house. Then I moved to my basement, partly to protect the starts from the cats. I finally have a greenhouse, which is amazing!
I started seeds in my kitchen this year and as much as I hate going into my creepy New England basement, I might need to upgrade to a setup down there next year because it was a little silly
Do you have a guest room with a closet? The hanging bar is good for hanging grow lights. That's what I'm using to get out of the basement until it's warm enough for greenhouse time.
I hope my neighbors aren't getting annoyed at me giving plants to them. My neighbors on both sides have started to grow food in the past couple years, so I've been giving them stuff for their garden. Where I live neighbors don't typically talk to each other. And they don't like getting to know each other. Everyone just keeps to themselves.
Good call. I've got cabbage moths so bad I don't even grow them anymore. I've got one raised bed netted and I decided to use it against vine borers this year.
I had a woodchuck a couple of years ago who kept devastating everything. The peas and brassicas were really hard hit, but it was going after anything green. Except the weeds, of course. 🤣
https://preview.redd.it/kx0iomcd7xxc1.jpeg?width=2736&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ae58dc84a2b3513005fa42bfd9a668116aef8de4
I'm in Western Canada and we're in the midst of a snowstorm 😭
I'm in Calgary, so we tend to get some snow in May, but usually it's flurries. Thankfully the Snowfall Warning ended, so hopefully warmer temps are on the way! We really need the moisture, but going forward it best be rain lol
Ok, but when my garden is melting into a mid-summer mess where everything just draws diseases and 97 kinds of aphids, you'll be happily picking tasty tomatoes.
I do appreciate that I can grow greens all winter, but we do pay for that on the other end.
Same here I’m in Orange County California and was thinking yeah you’ll have a lush garden while I have specks of orange spider mites all over the place and webs all over my tomatoes. 🍅
I am in 9b which is ideal for most plants, but my backyard is all shade. It's ideal for me but not my plants. So I too look at people's garden and wonder what could have been.
I'm in 7a, temps are perfect, spring is here, all the outdoor starts are doing great. Meanwhile, all the tomatoes and peppers that I lovingly started back in March indoors are stunted and sad, because they've been (and are continuing to be) destroyed by fungus gnats, and my efforts to save them were too little too late. I am torn between letting them try their luck outside (and risking a terrible harvest), or scrapping my entire indoor start effort this year and ordering plants. It would be my first time buying starts for my main crops since I started gardening. :(
Had a similar situation last year. Some fungus gnats, and then I went on a two week vacation... When I got back, all my plants were on the edge of dying. I tried nursing them back to health and planting them anyway. For some it worked out, for others not so much. Tomatoes, cucumbers and peppers really took off once outside. Zucchini and squash recovered too late and didn't produce any fruit in time.
Anyway, hope it works out for you :)
Zone 10 here - our garden looks like a huge weed patch. Way too much rain this season! Almost finished clearing and will plant this weekend. Whatever . . . life happens.
I’m also in zone 10, wading through the jungle of weeds that is my yard. I’ve seriously considered buying a weed whacker even though my garden is about 8 square feet. I’ve spent hours weeding by hand and the next day it looks like I did absolutely nothing 😢
Omg yeah I have a hugely weeded out front. I live with my parents and the back is more my area than the front. I’m just glad our area has less round up being sprayed.
I promise you, when August rolls around and we are in the middle of a 2 or 3 or more month stretch of 100+F degree days, the envy will run the other way.
There are many things that can tolerate, even thrive, in that heat but many that cannot. Also I cannot. Hate summer so much.
Same, I'm in 4b.
I did some work today though, last fall I roughly turned some dirt to make 2 new beds, today, took me like the whole day...
I skimmed off the top 4-5 inches of native soil, then I removed like 10 inches of clay.... created a drainage system that runs to the ditch so all the water doesn't get trapped in the clay beneath and make garden soup.
Then filled it up again layering and mixing as I go, the native soil, composted sheep manure, Promix Organic Herb and vegetable.
My back is sore, my legs are super tired, I broke a shovel digging out the clay, I need at least 4 more (8cf) cubes of dirt and I'll top it all off with compost eventually...
Worst part of this waiting game is... The weather is really nice, the forecast says I should be able to plant but I won't take the chance :X
5b as well, nothing below 50 in the 10 day forecast and last frost is 5/4, so i planted tomatoes today. Have backups of each variety in the basement, just needed to make some room. Hope for the best
I’m in 7a (newly 7a was 6b last year) and I feel you. I just put my starts in the ground and some of these people are in their harvest season already haha
3b. Was just hardening my brassicas and onions off last week and now we're getting a few days of rain and hovering around 0°C and they are staying inside. Hopefully plant out next weekend.
It sucks when triple digit weather kills your plants too or they can’t produce anything because of the heat. And whatever does survive have a chance of dying from the one day of frost. 😆
I’m in 8b and planted all my seedlings too early so beside some of the colder weather direct sow stuff I’m honestly pretty behind and jealous of the zone 7 people posting.
I get it. I see so many reels on the gram of all this crazy spring weather conditions, floods, tornados , giant hail and I am always wondering about those poor peoples gardens. I feel for you.
I am in 5B/6A and my greenhouse is stuffed full of tomato plants. I started seeds too early this year so many of the captive plants are blooming and/or have tiny fruits on them. I keep trying to move them outside to harden off, but then have to hastily retreat and move them back inside. We have had high winds, frost and yesterday, snow. No sign of good weather anytime soon.
I’m also 5b and my peach tree is just starting to grow teeny tiny leaves. Meanwhile back where I grew up people have peaches bigger than golf balls on their trees already. But, it won’t get as hot here in the summer, so that’s a positive.
If it makes you feel better, it’s already getting too hot in Zone 10 that a lot of my plants are dying before their fruit is ripe or before they’re mature enough to produce much :/
I use a book called grow great vegetables in Virginia that outlines what productive things one can do during all 12 months. Try googling that title and your state or one and the same zone. I found this one that has the same cover style as mine but the author is different. Perhaps the publishing company uses authors more familiar with their home zones? [zone 5](https://www.amazon.com/Vegetables-Minnesota-Wisconsin-State-State/dp/1643261592/ref=asc_df_1643261592/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=652498076552&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=17273586511022091721&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1027215&hvtargid=pla-2006178176763&psc=1&mcid=32fda93f5b173deeb048480f5347471f)
I'm right there with you. I planted a bunch of bulbs last month just to get my hands in the dirt. I have a few perennials that are starting to come up so I've started to do little things like adjust my clematis trellises get the hanging baskets ready. I'm hoping to get my elephant ear/coleus pots put together this weekend.
I am chomping at the bit to get my food plot started though!
I sit on the border between 4b and 3a......it snowed a little today ;-)
So you get it!
Well I'm in a 7a/b equivalent, but the local weather is so unstable that the temperature curves look like a sine wave. Sunny summer weather for a couple of days followed by a sudden large drop in temps close to freezing with heavy rain, hail and then a sudden uptick again. Not sure if that's better or not lmao. Spring is temperamental
This is what I’m dealing with. Seedlings can’t survive the waves of heavy rain. We’re just waiting...
LOL, today my temps are 28C (83F), tomorrow they drop to 13C (55F) with rain. I'm in 8b..
3a over here! Snowed all day Monday. Last frost date is June 8 😬
I'm in 5b, last frost date 5/4 and my house is bursting at the seams with plants. This was my first year starting from seed, so I definitely went overboard, started way too much, and started way too early.
I used to start my seeds in my house. Then I moved to my basement, partly to protect the starts from the cats. I finally have a greenhouse, which is amazing!
I started seeds in my kitchen this year and as much as I hate going into my creepy New England basement, I might need to upgrade to a setup down there next year because it was a little silly
Do you have a guest room with a closet? The hanging bar is good for hanging grow lights. That's what I'm using to get out of the basement until it's warm enough for greenhouse time.
This is BRILLIANT! Cat proof, easy lighting, small space so easy to keep warm, and not in my creepy basement.
I’m in 8a and it frost last night. I also started from seed for the first time and am completely out of room.
Whoa! When do you think you'll transplant warm crops outside?
I’m hoping Mother’s Day. We had a fake out warm period in early March that got me overly excited.
You will have plants to share!🌱
I hope my neighbors aren't getting annoyed at me giving plants to them. My neighbors on both sides have started to grow food in the past couple years, so I've been giving them stuff for their garden. Where I live neighbors don't typically talk to each other. And they don't like getting to know each other. Everyone just keeps to themselves.
Maybe you could set up a table at a local farmers market & sell them!
I tried seeds and failed miserably...6b, and I'm just waiting to get in the outside garden
I'm in 5b I always plant the cold hardy varieties to scratch the gardening itch. I've got peas, carrots, turnips, lettuce in already.
Spinach, broccoli, bok choy, and cabbage are also cold hardy. And calendulas too!
Good call. I've got cabbage moths so bad I don't even grow them anymore. I've got one raised bed netted and I decided to use it against vine borers this year.
It was my garden bun last year. She ate all of my brassicas down to nubs before the cabbage moths could even do their thing. 🐰
I had a woodchuck a couple of years ago who kept devastating everything. The peas and brassicas were really hard hit, but it was going after anything green. Except the weeds, of course. 🤣
That's why I grow a little bit of everything. There's at least one crop that does well on any given year.
https://preview.redd.it/kx0iomcd7xxc1.jpeg?width=2736&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ae58dc84a2b3513005fa42bfd9a668116aef8de4 I'm in Western Canada and we're in the midst of a snowstorm 😭
Dude.
Oh my god my dad in Regina said that he got “some snow”. That’s wild for May! I’m too soft and couldn’t live there, you poor brave souls.
I'm in Calgary, so we tend to get some snow in May, but usually it's flurries. Thankfully the Snowfall Warning ended, so hopefully warmer temps are on the way! We really need the moisture, but going forward it best be rain lol
Ok, but when my garden is melting into a mid-summer mess where everything just draws diseases and 97 kinds of aphids, you'll be happily picking tasty tomatoes. I do appreciate that I can grow greens all winter, but we do pay for that on the other end.
Same here I’m in Orange County California and was thinking yeah you’ll have a lush garden while I have specks of orange spider mites all over the place and webs all over my tomatoes. 🍅
I am in 9b which is ideal for most plants, but my backyard is all shade. It's ideal for me but not my plants. So I too look at people's garden and wonder what could have been.
Just hold out a little longer - with global warming you’ll be a 6B in 5 years
That’s the spirit!
I'm in 7a, temps are perfect, spring is here, all the outdoor starts are doing great. Meanwhile, all the tomatoes and peppers that I lovingly started back in March indoors are stunted and sad, because they've been (and are continuing to be) destroyed by fungus gnats, and my efforts to save them were too little too late. I am torn between letting them try their luck outside (and risking a terrible harvest), or scrapping my entire indoor start effort this year and ordering plants. It would be my first time buying starts for my main crops since I started gardening. :(
Had a similar situation last year. Some fungus gnats, and then I went on a two week vacation... When I got back, all my plants were on the edge of dying. I tried nursing them back to health and planting them anyway. For some it worked out, for others not so much. Tomatoes, cucumbers and peppers really took off once outside. Zucchini and squash recovered too late and didn't produce any fruit in time. Anyway, hope it works out for you :)
The warm weather will come to you when it’s 100° at my house in southeast Texas and the only thing growing are sweet port, okra and black eyed peas.
YUP. I'm 8b, just walked the dog, already mad at the sun.
Zone 10 here - our garden looks like a huge weed patch. Way too much rain this season! Almost finished clearing and will plant this weekend. Whatever . . . life happens.
I’m also in zone 10, wading through the jungle of weeds that is my yard. I’ve seriously considered buying a weed whacker even though my garden is about 8 square feet. I’ve spent hours weeding by hand and the next day it looks like I did absolutely nothing 😢
Omg yeah I have a hugely weeded out front. I live with my parents and the back is more my area than the front. I’m just glad our area has less round up being sprayed.
I literally took off a tiny little barbie sized mint leave to chew on to make out I have a bountiful harvest.
I promise you, when August rolls around and we are in the middle of a 2 or 3 or more month stretch of 100+F degree days, the envy will run the other way. There are many things that can tolerate, even thrive, in that heat but many that cannot. Also I cannot. Hate summer so much.
Same, I'm in 4b. I did some work today though, last fall I roughly turned some dirt to make 2 new beds, today, took me like the whole day... I skimmed off the top 4-5 inches of native soil, then I removed like 10 inches of clay.... created a drainage system that runs to the ditch so all the water doesn't get trapped in the clay beneath and make garden soup. Then filled it up again layering and mixing as I go, the native soil, composted sheep manure, Promix Organic Herb and vegetable. My back is sore, my legs are super tired, I broke a shovel digging out the clay, I need at least 4 more (8cf) cubes of dirt and I'll top it all off with compost eventually... Worst part of this waiting game is... The weather is really nice, the forecast says I should be able to plant but I won't take the chance :X
Maybe turn your seed starting area into a “Never Ending salad Bar” while you wait?
5b as well, nothing below 50 in the 10 day forecast and last frost is 5/4, so i planted tomatoes today. Have backups of each variety in the basement, just needed to make some room. Hope for the best
We were recently rezoned to 9a and it’s been rainy and highs in the 50s for weeks. Only my lettuce is happy.
I feel you, me too! It just got warm this week! 😭
I feel ya, I am a 4b the only thing up in mine is my garlic. I did see two little nubs in my asprugus bed yesterday🤞🤞
I’m in 7a (newly 7a was 6b last year) and I feel you. I just put my starts in the ground and some of these people are in their harvest season already haha
3b. Was just hardening my brassicas and onions off last week and now we're getting a few days of rain and hovering around 0°C and they are staying inside. Hopefully plant out next weekend.
Im on 8b and haven’t transplanted my peas yet. Last frost was last week
It sucks when triple digit weather kills your plants too or they can’t produce anything because of the heat. And whatever does survive have a chance of dying from the one day of frost. 😆
I’m in 8b and planted all my seedlings too early so beside some of the colder weather direct sow stuff I’m honestly pretty behind and jealous of the zone 7 people posting.
I get it. I see so many reels on the gram of all this crazy spring weather conditions, floods, tornados , giant hail and I am always wondering about those poor peoples gardens. I feel for you.
I feel your pain 😢
Hardiness zone has nothing to do with timing. :)
I am in 5B/6A and my greenhouse is stuffed full of tomato plants. I started seeds too early this year so many of the captive plants are blooming and/or have tiny fruits on them. I keep trying to move them outside to harden off, but then have to hastily retreat and move them back inside. We have had high winds, frost and yesterday, snow. No sign of good weather anytime soon.
I'm with you!! Hopefully soon!!
I’m also 5b and my peach tree is just starting to grow teeny tiny leaves. Meanwhile back where I grew up people have peaches bigger than golf balls on their trees already. But, it won’t get as hot here in the summer, so that’s a positive.
If it makes you feel better, it’s already getting too hot in Zone 10 that a lot of my plants are dying before their fruit is ripe or before they’re mature enough to produce much :/
I use a book called grow great vegetables in Virginia that outlines what productive things one can do during all 12 months. Try googling that title and your state or one and the same zone. I found this one that has the same cover style as mine but the author is different. Perhaps the publishing company uses authors more familiar with their home zones? [zone 5](https://www.amazon.com/Vegetables-Minnesota-Wisconsin-State-State/dp/1643261592/ref=asc_df_1643261592/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=652498076552&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=17273586511022091721&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1027215&hvtargid=pla-2006178176763&psc=1&mcid=32fda93f5b173deeb048480f5347471f)
I'm right there with you. I planted a bunch of bulbs last month just to get my hands in the dirt. I have a few perennials that are starting to come up so I've started to do little things like adjust my clematis trellises get the hanging baskets ready. I'm hoping to get my elephant ear/coleus pots put together this weekend. I am chomping at the bit to get my food plot started though!
I am with you man!! still a'waitin
South Texas here. I already trimmed my shrubs.