Excerpts from the Garden Maven:

"If you are gardening, I guess the best thing for you in the garden is to work in the sun and put all your plantings in the sun and cover them at night. If you wait just a week or two more to plant, maybe the night temperatures will rise to the 40's or more and you will not have to cover new starts. Ask around for t he last possible date for frost. Just remember these days next summer, when you will pray for a cool night.

So you want to garden this weekend, keep pulling weeds and trimming. You might plant your forsythia. Forsythia can take the cold. It would be really big and bloom profusely, if the deer would stop eating it!

Bare root plants like roses or trees can be planted if the ground is not too soggy. Bare root plants are cheaper because they are small, dug and wrapped with only a beginning root system. They need lots of water over the heat of the summer, but if you plant them early enough in the spring they can get a good root start while the weather is cool. Dig a hole twice as big as the root ball of the bare root plants and will with a mix of new, enriched soil and native soil from the original hole.

Hardening off your seeds can occur by placing your seed starts on the deck in the sun but continue to keep them in at night. Hardening off prevents the seeds from being in shock when you transplant them to your garden later."