Awww. poor maters! Can you start over?

...and it was not just a little frost either, it was a very heavy one!!  Came to work today and my boss has flowers - delicate ones, too - all over the outside, hanging, sitting on the steps etc.  I don’t have the heart to tell her she just might be jumping the gun. 

Other than pansies, I would not plant a single other flower outside around here til at least the middle of this month or later.  My dad always, always said, after Memorial Day--of course that was probably back when MD was still the 31st!! ;)

I think I recently read the the frost free date for our zone is around June 4th. It’s definitely June and later than I remembered. But yeah, I grew up with the Memorial Day rule, too. By the the middle of May, people are so crazy to get pretty flowers in the ground that they throw caution to the wind and whoops...a frost. It’s happened to me, too. Looks like maybe we really will have to wait until June this year.

Annie, I don’t think there’s enough time to start new seeds and have them ready to plop in the ground by the first week of June. Not sure that would give them enough time to mature before the first frost in the autumn, either. Just chalk it up to a careless moment, I guess. It’s really a shame.

Unfortunately, I, too, made that same mistake here in Massachusetts. I didn’t lose any totally, but some leaves were killed and I’m certain their growth is stunted. I saw some beautiful tomato plants at the nursery and mine are pitiful next to them. I think I’ll get a few of the nursery ones, but try and coax what I can out of my transplants.

and today is yet another gorgeous spring day in New England.........not.  Freezing.  I just bumped the heat up a teeney tiny bit to take the chill off.  As soon as it does, I swore I would turn it off.....I figure it should be all set in say, oh, about 8 hours??