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I keep getting gardening/seed catalogs in the mail and just toss them aside thinking by the time the snow melts and the ground thaws to the point where we could have a garden there probably won't be enough time left in the season for much of anything to grow.
How do y'all breathe minus 3 degree air??? I can't handle our 30 degree air
I'm hoping the CSA we belong to has some secrets for growing them so we can get them there. It's not summer for me without a tomato and cuke sammich on soft white bread (may need to cheat on the gluten free diet) with (Hellman's!) mayo.No tomatoes???????????
What about cukes? How am I going to live without a tomato and cuke sammich?
We've just bought seedlings the past few years as it's easier but even doing it that way unless we have a good, long warm spell as cold as it's been this year, it's going to take a long time for the frost to thaw out of the ground and warm up enough to the point that we can get plants in. I'm thinking mid-June at the very earliest and then we start getting cold again in September.
Have you tried the kumatoes? The color is a little weird--almost a reddish-brown--but they have more flavor than most grocery store tomatoes this time of year. No comparison at all to fresh from the garden tomatoes, of course.
I couldn't live there!We get two weeks of Summer in July
You probably have a similar joke, too, that we have 3 seasons--winter, mud, and the 4th of July.
Hannaford is where we get them here.
I couldn't live there!
It's been on my retirement travel bucket list but living there--at least in the winter--I couldn't do. It's hard enough putting up with winter in Maine! Only 3 more years, though, and Arizona here I come for the winter!
