It's Spring, Isn't It?

Like everyone else I'm aware of the calendar date, however, I'm waiting for planting season.

I want to be able to put the seedlings that I've started outside. I want to play in the dirt. Right now, it's just too cold. Or too rainy. Or too blah.

I'm anxiously waiting to put in the tomato plants and peppers and cucumbers. I want to put mulch around the flower beds and around the hostas that the deer haven't eaten. I want to start new beds for planting annuals and new perennials beds and fruit trees (again, for the deer). But it seems like we're on hold with the weather.

Today it's sunny, but still cold.

If I'm out in the garden, I don't want to wear gloves, or a coat, to work in my vegetable garden.

So during the spring-like weather we had a couple of weeks ago, I happily planted some of the good cold crop veggies: lettuce, sweet peas, green onion. I would have liked to have planted more, but the rotor-tiller isn't working and I'm not much for manual labor.

Needless to say, I do have cute little buds of lettuces coming up. And the onions are coming along nicely.

My parents planted weeks ago and they're almost eating the onions they planted. They plant kohlrabi (yes, kohlrabi) and it always grows. Everything they plant, grows! Except maybe radishes. If someone can tell me how to grow a radish, I'd love the challenge. I can never grow a radish. Or carrots.

Am I waiting too long in the season to plant? Am I starting too soon? Good soil? Bad soil?

I was lucky enough to get a plot in the Avon Lake Community Garden. From what I understand the weather has been uncooperative and the plots haven't been plotted. I will go to the meeting on May 7 to find out more information, unless anyone has the update now?  

I am looking forward to planting where there is sunshine and a deer-free environment. Hopefully I will learn a thing or two as well, like how to grow radishes.