Well it has gone from near freezing two nights ago to hitting the 80s in the day time so my spinach and lettuce are getting ready to bolt. I went ahead and removed all of my spinach this morning and sent off 4 bags of it for my wife to give to her coworkers. I'm really sick of spinach after eating it almost weekly since late fall. In over 30 years of growing spinach I have never had such a bumper crop. My spring lettuce has done much better than my fall and winter lettuce but now that hot days are here it won't last long. I don't grow any of the lettuces that do well in hot weather so my spring lettuce season is very short. I'm ready for some tomatoes and peppers but I'll have to wait since this cold weather has set me back about a month. This is the first year I can remember not having a single tomato set out in March.
Bill
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