Claire
Master Chef
I live in the upper Midwest, (NW IL), and we've have a freakishly warm spring. I'm looking at my little gardening plots and really, really wanting to get out there and get started. On the up side, we're having more time to get those beds prepared this year. The tradition is that you plant frost-vulnerable plants after Mothers' Day. Last year we had our last frost several days after that. Even one of my greenhouse owners had signs on her basil plants warning, DO NOT PLANT OUTSIDE NOW!! My perennial and biannual herbs are up and thriving and in use already. I've got my spinach planted and started to come up, and will probably chance lettuce soon. It's so tempting to jump the season. I suppose luckily, the stores don't even start to carry seedlings that can't survive a frost for awhile yet! Otherwise we'd all be tempting fate.