Its such a good feeling to have the garden in.

Enjoy the fruits of your labor! :-)

I finally got my garden in. Mother's Day is usually my deadline here in the Salt Lake area. Now I can relax....yeah right. But now I can focus on the important things....like how many inches did that pepper plant grow last nite and is that my first tomato of the season. You know...the details.

Yes, it is a good feeling. We got too much rain overnight to plant what I planned to get in the garden today, but at least I now feel like I have a garden going. And first thing this morning a friend I've spoken to, but haven't seen for a long time came over to get the veggie plants I'd promised him. I didn't know he'd been in an pretty bad accident and was having some financial problems so it made me glad I'd started extra plants this year to give away. Life is good.

I had a chuckle after reading your post. I wish I had your problems; "too much rain overnight"!

Here in the Mojave Desert we are expecting our next measurable rain in October.

Here is a link that might be useful: Raised beds and irrigation

Here in Indiana it has been very wet until the middle of last week. I was able to get the early things in in April ok [including sweet corn] but the farmers were rained out for the most part.

I don't plant a garden all at once but plant for weeks. My melons went in nicely....some on the 12th and the rest last week. The first watermelons are starting to run.

We're getting our garden plowed this week and planted next weekend. I can't wait. It's been an extra cold spring we had frost 3 days ago so we're waiting an extra week just to make sure it's all gone.

dirtydan, it's slightly wetter here in Idaho, but the "too much rain" concept is foreign to me. Glad I'm not the only one.

Congrats to the OP on getting the garden in. It's so nice to have a spare minute to enjoy watching things grow. This is my first year where I feel like I'm ahead of the game for the most part. I'm afraid relying on someone else to get stuff in as you have to do would drive me up a wall!

I'm in central Indiana, and it was only this past week that we could get into the garden.
The one thing good about planting it later, is that things seem to sprout faster. I planted my cucs less than 1 week ago, and they've sprouted already! some of my pole beans sprouted too. Now I have to keep my fingers crossed that the mice don't eat them, as they've been known to do.

Cheers! (holding up my virtual strawberry daiquiri. Clink! Clink!) I got the vast majority of the garden in this weekend. I still have extra seedlings, despite having given some to friends and relatives. So I have to tuck them in and put some in containers. We had our last frost (I really hope its the last frost) last tuesday. So it didn't make much sense to try and plant out most things any earlier. Sure the cole crops and lettuces have been in for a couple weeks now.

It's a good feeling to have the garden in. Last year I got a late start and didn't have everything in until the 4th of July!!!

Congrats!

congrats!

Looks like we are finally going to get some of the rain you have had too much of. Cheers all around!

I still have to get my tomatoes, hot peppers, and eggplant seedlings in the ground. I'm going to plant the peppers and eggplant in buckets, so I can get those done one night after work this week (hopefully!), but the area that I'm going to plant the tomatoes in still has sod on it that has to be stripped, then the soil needs to have the rocks dug out and the amendments dug in! I can squeeze a couple in my very small, existing veggie bed, but only 3 plants, if I'm lucky. So the next week is going to be hectic getting that area done! I just might repot the toms one more time as they're so tall now they're flopping over. I'll have to plant them deep once I get them in the ground!

Lisa