I'm calling it - worst gardening season I ever remember here.

[Denninmi]

This spring has NOT been conducive to gardening at all. We have basically only one type of weather this season, cold and wet. We have had now 3 nice days total since the official first day of spring, April 10th, and this past Thursday and Friday. All three of those days were warm, sunny, and pleasant.

We had the 4th wettest April on record here. May is worse, IMO, but I don't know what the numbers are. I had almost 4 inches of rain in my back yard from storms Wednesday Night, Thursday Night, and Friday Night (at least Mother Nature was kind enough to wait until after dark all three nights).

Yesterday and today have been almost non-stop hard rain. I'm guessing we've picked up somewhere between 2 1/2 and 3 1/2 additional inches of rain since midnight Friday/Saturday.

The only crop I have in the ground are my potatoes. Onions are waiting in flats to go out, as are peas. I have some leafy greens in large tubs along the side of my greenhouse that I managed to get planted on Thursday when I was off and when it was sunny and around 80.

The only saving grace for me is that everything IS in the greenhouse, and isn't even growing very fast due to the dark gloomy weather.

My prediction -- this cold and wet spring will be followed by a very dry summer, when it goes weeks on end without rain. Yikes! But, all too often that seems to happen here.