THE RELUCTANT GOURMET COOKING COMMUNITY

[ninjabut]

We've had such a bizarre spring! So cold and rainy! My veges are just thinking about really growing even though they've been planted for about a month!
BOOM this week is our spring! Then we'll head into summer!
I still have a lot of lettuce, radishes, carrots, onions, garlic and celery. The summer stuff should start taking off soon.
We're trying giant pumpkins for the first time this year. We got the seeds from a grower where the DH carves pumpkins each year. The seedlings are growing like an inch per day! You can almost see them growing! Very exciting!

[kell]

My best friend and her husband have been down in Alabama and South Carolina for family stuff this past week. Just talked to her and they have picked up Georgia peaches that were unbelievable. blueberries. boysenberries. tomatoes, and corn on the cob that we have to wait for until July for (if not August!!) I swear if / when I retire, it's gonna be somewhere warmer. Wonder if I'd miss my "extreme grilling" though???? I mostly enjoy where we are at but when I read about your early, early garden and hear stuff like what I just wrote about, I get kinda jealous .... I think it's time for another greenhouse. 8)

[Dilbert]

kell -

go for a big greenhouse - the live in kind....[g]

the problem with admiring the warmer climes is May, June, July, August, September and sometimes October. then it's really way south, like Hades south . . .

in the military I was stationed in FL, had/have relatives in the Carolinas - and there ain't no way I'd trade two weeks of icicles for their months of heatcicles.

[ninjabut]

Well, here in No California it's USUALLY very nice from about April through October. Very little rain (USUALLY!LOL)
I'm just north of San Francisco in the wine country so we have a very mediteranian type area.
We get fog in the AM, then hot in the PM. Very little humidity compared to the few times I've been back east. Also the real estate has dropped back to reasonable prices!