Pacific Northwest Gardening: Where oh where did my May go..., 0 by evelyn_inthegarden

evelyn_inthegarden wrote:
Usually our last snowfall is in late march, then drying...then hot until November, though sometimes milder weather until the heat settles in. Nothing is settled! I don't mind sharing the sunshine, but please take this "weather" away. It's OK to snow in the wintertime, but not now for C****'ssake!

I am glad I was late with the cool weather veggies, as I grew all mine own from seed this year. The lettuce loves this weather, as do the peas, beets, carrots, and broccoli. Usually I have them from fall on, but this year I have been digging out my "Square Foot Gardens" as they were full of clay and weed roots, as well as some over-wintering plants. I dug them to their bottoms...only 12", and then sifted them out...then put in peat, vermiculite and perlite to lighten the clay. Then added some organic things like greensand, blood meal, bone meal, rock phosphate...

SFG #1 - carrots & peas
SFG #2 - basil from seed (for pesto-loving hubby)
SFG #3 - purple bush beans, carrots, beets
SFG #4 - overwintered stevia, beets, broccoli, potatoes
SFG #5 - tomatoes, carrots, parsley
SFG #6 - tomatoes - then more storms did not get any further than that. I have 2 more that I cleared out most of the weeds, only
SFG #7 - has some plants still in there and
SFG #8 - still has overwintered glads and dahlias that did not get into their gardens last season. (They too were filled with clover and other various weeds, which protected them from the cold.)