What's best in my garden is what was planted last fall - my garlics! Some of the Music leaves can be unrolled up to about my waist.

Plenty of other onions in too, both regular from sets and plants and two types of multipliers. Fingerling potatoes (Russian Banana) are are all up, I'm eating radishes and walking onion scallions and can take lettuce thinnings. I went ahead and put out my tomatoes (2 Bush Champions have been in for a couple of weeks, 1 Big Beef and 2 Fourth of July got added yesterday) and my sweet banana peppers last evening. There are flowers on the peppers and some on the Big Beef tomato; I hope they set. For the heck of it I also planted 6 Falstaff red Brussels sprouts, too. Then everything got a good deep drink and top dressing with Milorganite.

I'm running out of room on my 40x120 city lot! :-( I still have peas and beans to plant yet and chinese cabbage and broccoli and ... and ... Just plain too many nice things, too little time and too little space!

Plenty of flower buds on the early daylilies already and my peach bushes were a mass of pink last week. If even half the blossoms set, I will still have a lot of thinning to do. Appeldoorn tulips are done already too. I have found that the tulips do real well when dug yearly and cured pretty much the way one does onions and garlic, just earlier and then replanted every fall. This fall will be the fourth year and the bloom hasn't tapered off at all yet (and the bulbs have multiplied like crazy, too).

My western suburbs garden consists of 18 - 4X10' raised beds in the fenced main garden, which I got started with a bed of mixed radishes, lettuces, spinach, kale and chard planted on 03/14. It survived the 17f in april with just a canvas tarp over night.

Since then I have sowed 3 successions of the above mix, 3 types of carrots in one bed, beets, kenabek and norland red potatoes interplanted with boarage, sugar snap peas, 10 tomato plants from the hardware store (celebrity, lemon boy, 2 roma, 2 boxcar willie, cherokee purple, black karin, sweet 100, and a yellow cherry), crookneck, yellow and green zucchini, acorn squash inside a large concrete wire trellis, 2 habenero peppers, 3 jalepeno peeppers, 3 types of bush beans, kohlrabi, 3 types of onions, garlic, arugula, basil, cilantro, oregano (which overwintered), rosemary, and thyme.

Some might say I jumped the gun, but I don't worry about the weather too much because I like to keep planting things every weekend, through the beginning of July.

I start fall crops of lettuce, spinach, arugula, and radishes the day or two of July, or first week of august.

I have perennial wildflowers coming up now to go with my zinnia, coneflowers, borage, giant sunflowers, and marigold seeds that are spread out randomly all over the place.

I added a trellis with 3 types of morning glories and scarlet runner beans.

For perennials I added another asparagus bed, a strawberry and a raspberry bed, with red and gold canes. Chive and rhubarb along the shed look great. We are eating

Wow I am way behind all you folks. I only have my onions planted so far. My garlic is doing well and raspberries are starting get their blossom buds. I've been putting my tomato seedlings outside during the day the past few days, but bring them in at night. I plan to get my potatoes in next weekend, hopefully. Maybe snow peas and carrots too. If I have time tomorrow, I might start some lettuce. I'm up north though, zone 3B so it's probably been a bit cooler here at night.

Sounds right on time Weezy. Our first home was in Grand Marais, where I gardened for 10 years, and still have a garden at our cabin. One of my gardening and canning mentors lived right on Lake Superior in Grand Portage... Talk about a challenge, with many days in the 40s well into July!

I typically did a lot of my planting up there between fishing opener and Memorial day. One year we had 28f the morning of June 21st. That was the year I gave up trying to grow tomatoes. I never got a red one, even in a cold frame.

Aside from sweet corn and tomatoes, I could grow just about anything else up there with great success. Talk about sweet carrots!! They were so good. I still remember the first time I ate one, then another and another.

I'm in Brainerd so don't have the big lake affecting the weather to contend with. Awfully cold here this weekend. I'll probably wait until next weekend before I do much planting. Corn and tomatoes are hit and miss but I always try them. Some years they're great, other years... not so much.

I just got up for the day and checked the outside thermometer. We have 36f in Golden Valley right now at 4 AM. It was cloudy and windy when I went to bed so I was thinking it would not frost….We'll see in a few hours what happens. My tomatoes and peppers are not too happy right now.

It was over here 90f last Friday. What a roller coaster!

so much weed. all the weed.

Still dropping….now down to 35f. Will give update on how things fared once I can assess the situation later today.

Yep, it's
cold out there this morning. I woke up to 34.5° at 4:45am in Champlin. I'll
finish planting the cold hardy types of veggie plants and seeds this weekend,
but my peppers and tomatoes will remain in the little backyard greenhouse until
at least the end of the week. Lots of other yard work, I guess, I can
work on that I've been putting off.

Yep hard to think it was 92° in the backyard last Saturday and will be lucky to see the 50s this Saturday. Gotta love Minnesota!

Looks like about 35 right now at 08:00 in south Minneapolis. It wasn't nearly that cold when I set out to go to work at 3:30 this morning. :-) It should warm up from there. I guess I set in the heat island.

Tonight I check out the tomato and pepper plants I put out on a gamble a week ago and were already blooming and see if the peach set survived. There were all kinds of little white furry bumps there last week just starting to show as they pushed the blossom remnants off. I do not worry about the rest, the onions, garlic, potatoes, lettuce, or carrots, not unless it goes pretty deep into the 20's. BTW the tallest of my garlics is pushing waist high already. This has truly been a garlic spring. I am hoping for some very nice bulb sizes later on.

Early spring radishes are done. I seem to have accidentally put out some winter radish seed as part of that planting and now I have a pile of succulent bolting stems with a few buds in the top that look like broccoli raab. Earliest "broccoli" that I have ever had. lol I think I will try that again next year. Winter radishes bolt pretty dependably when spring planted. What I have now is really nice and succulent all the way to the ground.

We bottomed at 34. It was too breezy to get any colder after that. Right now at 9AM it is 39, cloudy and windy from the NW.

I was just out turning hot compost piles, splitting and replanting hostas, and doing some mulching with finished compost in my strawberry bed. Everything looks fine, even the tomato, zucchini and pepper plants. My bush beans look to be the saddest so far in the cold.

When I checked the thermometer at 4:30 AM it read 35. The dew point was 26, it was clear and fairly calm, so I knew there would be patchy frost, and sure enough there was frost on the roof tops, the smooth/broad leafed plants (strawberry and oregano), and on the clover in my lawn. Plants with furled leaves such as tomatoes, raspberry, potato and borage leaves had dew drops but no frost that I could see. It will be interesting to check on the garden later today.

No frost damage Friday night in my southside MPLS garden. It got down to about 34 this morning, about the same as Friday night. Peppers and tomatoes and peach set seemed to all be ok last evening. Man there are a lot of little white balls up and down the branches on the peaches. I guess when they say to thin the set they aren't kidding.

A few potato leaves on three plants in the NW corner of one bed got nipped, and my bush beans that were in process of opening look a little sickly, but most should pull through. I planted another succession of them, along with more scarlet runners and Kentucky Wonder pole beans at the base of some of the sprouted sunflowers here and there throughout the north side of the garden.

My peppers are under a shed overhang which no doubt helped their situation overnight. Should be smooth sailing now through harvest, baring large hail.

Hey Olddutch, I would like to hear more about how your peaches do in our zone.