Spring Planting

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