I don’t know if home gardeners face he same dilemma I do each spring. After seeing a highly favorable monthly forecast (my April forecast below) the temptation is to blow off caution and to get the party rocking in the garden.
For each passing day that the forecast proves to be kinda/sorta right the pressure to plant mounts. By the time the 17th of April (my average last frost date) arrives I’m typically battling both the ‘spring urge’ and the pressure that comes from seedlings that are rapidly outgrowing the seeding trays.
Without fail, we always (always, always, always) get a killing frost in the last week of April. What I can’t understand is: If I know that it will frost in the last week of April, why am I forced to battle the temptation to fill in the garden before the 1st of May? .
It’s not like I don’t have better things to do in the early spring. So why the look of indecision on my face?