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You gotta love Louisiana. We have winter for about three minutes. Spring is usually pretty warm and nice (except the pollen, but eh), summer’s hot, humid and lasts forever, and fall is like chilly spring in a different outfit.

This year, spring has been way too moody for me. It started off nice enough, then became a rainy mess. This has thrown off my garden plans considerably (but, I have given more thought to planning, so not a total loss). Monday afternoon I decided that Tuesday would be the big day. Then the weatherman ruined it all: we were in for a light frost Tuesday overnight. What?!?! In the middle of April? So we had record low temps Tuesday night. Great. My slothiness combined with inclement weather is throwing off my plans.

In further news, I’ve decided to add a small food garden plot to the backyard. I hope to have a small harvest of corn, peas, six kinds of tomatoes (three of them cherry!), carrots, okra (for pickles), and I want to get a couple strawberry plants. I think there are others I have (not counting “takes-forever-to-grow” artichoke), but those are the main event

So hopefully tomorrow, I will go and start planting flower seed, and then still feel like digging up my plot (by hand!). We’ll see how it goes.