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Ugh...
After a long 7.5 month Alaskan winter, I am so ready to dig my hands into the earth and get my gardens talking again.
I've lived in Alaska all my life... I've done some traveling, but never long enough to study the seasons of gardening in other regions.

Spring time here usually hits mid to late March, sometimes as late as mid April... by then I've got most of the veggies I plan to grow (Usually tomatoe, pepper, lettuce, and carrot) seeded in the dirt, kept inside (obviously, as it's still a mere 40-some degrees here). I have to wait midsummer or even early fall to plant flowers or fruits, as the soil and the weather never seems quite right beforehand...

But I guess what i'm interested in is what the gardening seasons are where you live? What do you plant, and when?

... Do you sing to your plants too? blaugh

Yeah, i'm studying to see what sort of plants are fond of shade. Ferns, Barroom plants... I want some plants in my room, but I only have one window in my room and where it's placed I don't get much light. I'm thinking of punching a hole in the wall and putting in another window or two, but then... I'd lose wall space for art! The one downfall of living in a small hippie house is the inability to have both wallspace and window... /sigh.

In Kentucky, spring started anywhere from mid-March to mid-April, depending on how badly Old Man Winter wanted to hold on. Then Summer lasted well into October. Sometimes it ended September, but rarely. And just about anything would grow in that clay if was broke up enough. Now I'm in a much cooler climate and I'm learning to adjust. The temps are where it throws me off. It's summer now, but my mind keeps referring to spring or fall, depending on the humidity.