Planting now?

Yes, it is time to get your soil out and your pots and water. Onions, flowers, herbs and long developing seeds need to be started for for garden transplanting this Spring/Summer. Prepare the soil in the pots, put the seeds in and water. Then cover with a plastic wrap of some kind, put on a window sill if that's what you have (some people have plant tables with lights over them), sit back and watch the action! There are many kinds of soil you can use from many different companies, I use Gardner's gold from Garden's alive or a planting mixture from Johnny"s Seeds in Maine. While you are at it you could start a cucumber plant, stake it so that it can grow upright, and you may be able to get a few winter cucumbers, I have. So sweet, fresh cucumbers in winter. (Winters are long here, they don't end til almost April, then we have early Spring which is usually wet and cold.) If you have children, they love to plant! For some reason it's as exciting to them as it is to me to watch their plants grow! Most of the time the plants emerge in a few days, but some take 2 weeks or more, so be patient.