It's time to celebrate! My vegetable garden is FINALLY planted!

[Siwsan]

I don't think I've ever been this late in getting it done. But, with my uncle's funeral over Memorial Day weekend, and the 4" of rain that fell, while we were gone, me getting flattened by a case of 'airplane plague', another deluge, last weekend, and then dealing with my poor Boudicca's final days keeping me out of action, I was wondering if I should just skip it, this year.

But today the soil was stable enough, I had just enough energy, AND there's more rain headed our way. That meant do it now, or probably never.

So, 4 kinds of tomatoes, 4 kinds of peppers, snow and sugar peas, green beans, zucchini and yellow squash finally in the ground, I feel like I can take a much needed breather. And there's still room, should something else catch my fancy.

Time for a hot, hot shower and then a cold bottle of something tasty.

[TEB]

1. Great happy for you

[Ohiogal]

2. Such a satisfying feeling, isn't it?

Due to weather (rain every day just about), ours was late getting in this year, too.

Here’s a toast to enjoying the fruits of our labors! *clink*

[Sherman A1]

3. Super

[Grasswire2]

4. seeds, or starts? nt

[Siwsan]

5. Some plants I started from seed, some I bought

This year I started my own summer squash, Roma and Golden tomatoes, peas, beans and some sweet peppers that are really still too small. I might put those in pots.

I always plant more pea and bean seeds shortly after I put in the plants. They come up so fast.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. Good. But Alaska? Florida Keys? Minnesota? Mount Whitney?

[Siwsan]

8. Michigan

It's been a really wet Spring. The soil was still right on the edge of being too wet.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

9. Yes, I've heard the northern/ northeastern tier is like that this year.

Wishing you tasty treats.

[Siwsan]

10. Thanks!

I'll be making and freezing lots of stewed tomatoes for soups and stews, this Winter.

[mgardener]

16. We still have our heat on at night

We have finally had a night above 50.
And our high so far is 73.
And I'm not going to talk about the clouds and rain.
I've planted, but they are just not growing.
It is sort of depressing.

[Harker]

7. Congratulations.

Nice choices. Some great salads and stirfrys in the future.

[Siwsan]

11. My struggle is to get the snow and sugar peas from the garden to the kitchen,

without snacking my way through the harvest, on my way to the house.

[Harker]

12. Ah. Maybe picking after meals would help...

Nah.

[Siwsan]

13. Since I pick them, fresh, for meals - nah.

It's worse when things first start appearing. There are very few things as tasty as a sun warmed tomato or bean, fresh off the vine.

[pazzyanne]

14. It is good to take out frustration in good old garden dirt!

I have always found serenity in working in my garden. Sounds like you do too. Congratulations on a job well done.

[appleannie1943]

15. I started most of mine from seed in March.

Once it was in individual peat pots, I put it in a plastic greenhouse out on the deck with a heat lamp at night. Had my straw bales ready to plant the first of May and have tiny cucumbers and tiny peppers and itsy bitsy green tomatoes already on the plants. With all the rain we have had, I have hardly had to water at all which was a blessing since I just had stents put in my heart and am now in cardio rehab 3 days a week. If I had not been early this year, I would not have had a garden at all. Hope yours flourishes. It isn't summer until you can eat a home grown tomato.

[Fla Dem]

17. Hope you have a bountiful harvest!