It's Mother's Day and I am watching the sun come up over the mountains. Not a cloud in the sky, birds singing in the still morning air. It is a moment of quiet and solitude that nourishes me.
And it is the day earmarked to set out my seedlings and flowers.
I am gambling this early in the season and have no psychic ability to tell what kind of summer lies ahead. Weather wise, I can dream of another summer like the last – long, warm days that brought such incredible bounty to my garden and table. Here we are, a week into May, and I've transplanted pumpkins and summer squash out into the garden. They might survive. I'm pretty sure the cucumbers won't – but it's worth a shot. The peas are up – along with the lettuce; however some thing ate my spinach down to nothing. Slugs that even now are digesting the bait that I left out for them.
Weather like this tantalizes me with visions of vine ripened tomatoes and freshly picked basil. I am ready for sun drenched days, flip flops and shorts.
Planting List 2010 from Territory Seeds and Abundant Life Seeds:
- Howden Pumpkins
- Small Sugar Pumpkins
- Samish Hybrid Organich Spinach
- Blushed Butter Cos Lettuce
- Heirloom Mix Lettuce
- Dakota Snap Peas
- Sugar Sprint Snap peas
- Oregon Sugar Pod II Snow Peas
- Oriental snap peas
- Eight ball summer squash
- Gold Rush Zucchini
- Orient Express Cucumbers
- Carnival Hybrid Winter Squash
- Cannellini Lingot Bush Beans
- Kentucky Wonder Pole Beans
- Speckled Cranberry Dry Shelling Bean
- Nantes Carrots
- Nantaise Narome Carrots
- Red Ace Beets
- Chioggia Beets
- Sunflowers: Sunseed, Infrared, and Apricot Twist
