Tomato Planting Season Starts Early

0:00It's April 4th. You're listening to Canada News today, AI-powered local news. Tomato planting season kicks off around your area's average last frost date, but with climate change pushing things earlier, folks on the valley floor. Like a round-band coover, can often start sooner without much worry. We had that chilly 30-degree morning late in March, but no more frost expected down low. Fire spots might still see later frost, and cool nights in the 30s or low 40s can stunt young plants, letting later ones catch up. Gardeners used to hold off on frost-sensitive stuff until mid-May, but I bumped it to early May while playing it smart. Start your tomatoes and other veggies from seed indoors in a sunny south or west window. They're sprouting now and ready for four-inch pots. Or grab small nursery plants early, pot them a bigger, then ease them outside days and pull them in nights to toughen up. Right now, go ahead with hardy root veggies, leafy greens, broccoli, cauliflower, pea-saucees

1:02direct, or use transplants. Tough flowers like petunias, elism, snap dragons, nastershyms, calendulas, popbies, cosmos, daisies, pansies, violas, and salveas are good too. Hold tender annuals, marigolds, zineas, geraniums, impatience, bagonias, bravinas, vinkas, labelias until May. Time to hit the dirt and make that garden pot before summer heats up.