Today, I’ve been pushing to get things in the ground. Normally, I wouldn’t even try doing the transplanting until after June 2, when the risk of frost is theoretically past. Instead, we’ve got the heat and a thunderstorm coming in a few days. Soil thermometer tells me the soil is more than warm enough for direct sowing and transplanting – too warm, for some things. So I’m going for it.

I got as much as I could before it started getting too hot. It’s past 6:30 as I write this, and we’re still at 28C/82F. I’d hoped to get back out later today, but we’ll see. Aside from getting things planted in the garden, the lawn seriously needs to be mowed. It can’t be done in the cool of the morning, as the grass is too wet, and I needed to focus on the planting.

My brother and his wife had stayed the night in their caravan, though, and he was an absolute sweetheart. He checked on the push mower and the riding mower they have available for us to use and tested them out, saving me the time of having to do the maintenance checks myself. I can just start them up and get going.

I got a lot done, which I will write about later. Today, when forced inside by the heat, I finally got the video I took on the 20th put together into a garden tour video. It’s was hard to go through the clips and not what to start over – so much has changed in 10 days! We went from cold, rain and even snow, to brutal heat waves.

I resisted.

So, here it is. Our May garden tour video.

Enjoy!

The Re-Farmer