Since late February, J has been asking if it’s time to plant vegetables and flowers yet. He wants watermelon and pumpkins and cucumbers and tomatoes and maybe some corn and beans.
The first year J was with us, he didn’t understand when I tried to explain about frost dates and Colorado sometimes getting snowstorms at the end of May (we’ve had at least one after Memorial Day in the past five years.)
He planted things early, and they died young.
This year, though, he listened, and looked at the instructions on the package, and agreed to wait.
And now, it’s time. It will be fun to get all those seeds in the ground.