No such luck here. Snow today - first time in 192 years according to the record keepers - and 30 degrees tonight. Am now a full 3 weeks late for normal planting out.

Dave

After a cold late April we are in weather heaven here. Looking at about 10 sunny days in a row with daytime temps in the 70's. Everything is growing like a weed!

I have known it to frost here twice May 18-20 in the last ten yrs but the ten day projection says 50 degree nights thru May 15 so I might be OK...thank you global warning...lol.

We're experiencing a second Flood.

Looks like this will finally be the week here. I'm ready, some of the plants are beyond ready. They will probably enjoy the sudden 80 degree weather better than me, though.

I seriously need to get started hardening off everything but the wind has been blowing so hard - and from a different direction than normal - this past couple of days that if I tried putting them out they'd be beat up beyond help in about 5 minutes. I have nowhere protected to put them from this. If it were the normal winds from the west I would be OK. GRRR.

Hey, BigPinks, did you find any Mortgage LIfter plants?

Edie

I got my tomatoes planted in containers on our last average frost day, April 28, which is about three weeks early for me. I had them in WOWs for about a week, but we had a couple days in the 80s and my plants were outgrowing the WOWs and looking overheated, so I removed them. The 10-day forecast does include a few nights around 50, which makes me nervous. But I'm hoping the warm soil in my black smart pots will make up for the cold nights. We'll see.

Thanks to advice from Big Pinks, 2 of my 10 plants are Mortgage Litter Estlers. I fell in love with them last year and was able to save a few viable seeds.

Yes Edie I bought 18 nice plants at Joyce's Greenhouse and have them in the garden. Should have plenty of big pink softballs all derived from your great uncle back to 1922. A lady who waited on me said Mrs Estler was there for her plants a few days before me and I guess she told the clerks there that she would be raising many less plants than Uncle Bob. I am gonna start saving more seed. Nice hearing from you!