Gardening in Mid Coast Maine {Zone 6a} Mid April

We have definitely turned the corner here in Mid-Coast Maine when it comes to weather. 

While the evening temperatures are still a wee bit too chilly to set out the exciting stuff like tomatoes and cucumbers, I suspect by the end of the weekend I’ll have my pea starts, lettuce, radish and carrot seeds in the ground. 

A high of 70 degrees today! Can you believe it!?

The evening temps around here for the next two weeks are supposed to be in the mid to upper 30’s to low 40’s so I can’t get too excited yet. 

But the HH was out there every day this week working in the yard which has given me oodles of time to continue dyeing wool {I’m nearly done, only about 6 batches left!} and finish up my other indoor projects before it’s all hands on deck outside.

In the afternoons though I’ve been going down to the shore to collect seaweed for the kitchen garden. {I fill up the wheelbarrow and the HH lugs it up the hill.}

So far I’ve mulched around the tulips and hydrangeas.

And the peonies and chives. The HH says it looks awful. But all I see is free fertilizer and a way to keep the heat and moisture at the base of the plants. 

Plus, it’s coastal New England… That’s what people do here.

The kitchen garden doesn’t look like much now, but give it another 6-8 weeks and everything will be a sea of green.

The HH bought a new spreader and put it together. He seems pretty happy about it and Miss Lucy was able to work on her tan while he worked so she was pretty happy about that. 

Poor Lucy, she was cooped up inside all winter but now… Now all she wants to do is to lay outside on the brick walkway and sun herself.

The sugar snap peas I started inside will get planted today {I have to start them inside otherwise the birds will pull up their tiny shoots}.

I think I’ll plant them along the fence {near where I planted asparagus crowns last year} so they have someplace to stretch out. 

And the other seeds I started indoors a few weeks ago {tomatoes, peppers, herbs} are doing well too. 

I don’t know about you, but I am ready!! Ready for warmer weather, ready for the SUNSHINE on my back and ready to grow some vegetables.

This summer the plan is to grow at least 1,000 pounds of vegetables. Yee-Haw! Here we go! Bring on the warmer weather because I am ready. 

~Mavis

P.S. Have you already started your cooler weather crops {lettuce, carrots, peas}? If so, what state are you in? I always think it’s interesting as to when people are able to get their garden in. Aren’t you?

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