<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=200833.msg9861300#msg9861300">Quote from: auroraChloe on 17-04-2014, 06:25:07</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">you're planting already??  i'm a little jealous.  our weather went from an unusually high 70 to wind, sleet, snow and record cold in 24 hrs.  got to love spring in new england.  i listen to my momma's advice and plant after memorial day.<br/><br/>and does it work that now you're off for 7 days?? <br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Well, in Alabama, we plant around May 1, and I'm only doing salsa stuff this year (tomatoes, peppers, onions and cilantro) so I will only need a few big pots.  We still have a lot of clearing from fall to do before I can plant (we have half an acre with oak trees on it and fall turns to winter fast here, so we didn't get to rake this past fall).  We need to plant grass in the back yard because it hasn't grown yet and it will be year 2 in this house.  We want grass in the back instead of mud.<br/><br/>In addition to that, both front and back need mowed, and all the normal housework done that I didn't finish last 7-off because the inlaws took 8 hours to put in a toilet, when hubby and I could have done it in two (they insisted).