Don't rush the season
Ginny Smith, who writes about gardening for The Philadelphia Inquirer, is one of the smartest garden writers in the country, and she is showing why today.
Ginny also writes the blog, Kiss the Earth, and today she is talking about big box stores, whose uniformed sales people are encouraging the purchase of warm weather vegetable crops, and garden center experts, who know well enough that this warm spell will not last, and it is too early to put your tomato plants in the ground.
Daffodils, after all, are still in bloom.
It has been a week of mid-summer warmth in the Mid-Atlantic and while all of us who remember 40 inches of snow are grateful for it, the calendar tells us it is still early April. Indeed, weathermen are predicting temperatures in the 60s for this weekend.
It isn't the air temperature that matters most to our tomato and pepper plants, Ginny writes. It is the ground temperature, and the ground is still cold.
In any case, your tomatoes won't arrive any faster if you put them in now. Trust me. And if you don't trust me, trust Ginny.
