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BobKat22
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Gardening
When are you going to be planting? I'm dying to do my flower beds today, but my mom told me to wait until April. Do I need to listen to my mother and wait?
Re: Gardening
I'm going to plant some cooler-weather seeds in my garden today, but I'm fine with replanting them if we get another frost and they die. I may put in a few flowers too if I get to the store to buy some, but I'm going to wait a few more weeks on the bulk of them since that's a larger expenditure if they die.
According to what I've found online, on average the last spring frost in the OKC area is April 15 and the last hard freeze is around March 30. The weather looks nice for the next week at least, so you may be ok.
If you must plant something now, then plant some pansies or other cooler-weather annual so you don't lose them if it freezes or frosts again. The date I plant is anytime after April 15.
I have, however, started a pot of greens and a pot of herbs. The lettuces are growing like crazy.
If you want spring color, when fall rolls around, plant some bulbs (hyacinths, daffodils, iris, dutch iris, crocus) so you have some color earlier in the spring so you don't feel the urge to plant too early.
I've also found that I have success planting pansies in the fall and them coming back in the spring. Mine are doing beautifully, and I haven't hardly touched them, except to deadhead. They can withstand our winters pretty well.
I planted the pots on my porch yesterday, and this week I'll do my mailbox planters (ran out of potting soil, and DH got some today, but it's too late now and I'm tired and don't feel like doing it).
I'm going to wait a few more weeks on the flower bed. Aside from the fact that I don't know what I want in there this year yet, we'll be doing some work on it first and I want to make sure that's all done before we plant. Plus I plan on spending more money on those plants than I did on the pots, so I want to make sure they don't bite it if a freeze comes.
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