May Long

It's traditional to plant your garden on the May long weekend in Saskatchewan. I broke with tradition this year, and most of my salad garden is planted already. Lots of beans, corn, and bedding plants yet to plant as soon as it dries up a little!

Aphids' spinach buffet surrounded by chives

Lettuces!

Radishes. If only they were as tasty as they are quick-growing and prolific.

Dwarf Siberian hot pepper

Tomatoes, peppers, cucurbits, brassicas hardening off

Gardening Interlude

There's at least four inches of snow on the ground right now, but my bedding plants are happily sunning fluorescentlighting themselves in the basement, oblivious.

The peppers are happy. They were planted a month ago.

The onions have also been growing for a month and have been trimmed once already.

The pansies - maybe not so happy, but I think they're just late bloomers.

The tomatoes are decidedly sad. Any tips for me?