Desperately Waiting for the Farmer's Almanac Zero Hour...

I don't just cook organic, I grow organic and it's just about time for the garden to start doing it's job.  After last year's on the garden training, I put aside my impatience and procured the 2011 Farmer's Almanac and a book on gardening in New England and actually planned out when to plant. 

Last year, the first nice day in April, the grass was being squared off and dug up and posts were hammered into the ground, all by hand and all with an internal frenzy that left me literally nauseus.  The seeds had been sown indoors in February and they were nicely lined up in rows in the brand new garden.  Then, of course, the temparature dropped and I was out there like a fiend covering pepper plants with containers and bricks when we had that crazy nor'easter.  The drop in temperature retarded the growth of my habeneros, so I ended up having to sacrifice what would have been a nice crop in August to watching them freezing, half ripe, on the vine in October.  And I discovered a dead spot where nothing would grow. 

Not again!  I composted.  I went according to the rules and sowed the onions indoors in March, the tomatoes, serrano peppers, basil, tomatillos and habenaros in April.  And they are leaning towards the window in as much anticipation of being outside as I am to plant them. 

Tuesday's nice weather allowed for some much needed weeding and mulch removing, and though it's not done, one more weekend and just try and stop me from bursting through the doors with a trowel and seedlings.  I'll be out there in the rain - I don't care!  Those bad boys are going out on the 15th and they will grow and I will harvest them between 75-88 days, because that's what my organic packets say!  It's already marked on my calendar.

It's hard being a Taurus and a gardener.  My linear sensibilities are thrown off because the strawberries from last year threw leaders and daughter plants sideways across my would-be beds!  I've been laying awake wondering how I can have my nice straight lines of crops when the berries grew sideways.  Sideways!  It's like they did it on purpose.

Keep your eyes out for the countdown and prep to May 15th.  Any tips would be appreciated!