With two days left until summer, I would like to give you the update on my spring tomato attempt. Here’s what did work this season: I got about a dozen and a half small creole tomatoes from my garden! I started them indoors from seed I bought at Perino’s Garden Center shortly after Mardi Gras, so…
Category: Gardening
Continued Search for Spring
2014 was a particularly tenacious winter, not unlike this one. We moved down here from Philadelphia on April 21, slipping from the clingy grasp of the season’s chill. By the time we unloaded our belongings in our new city, temperatures were already in the 90s, and stayed that way. So that year, I formed my…
Last Frost Date
Today, February 21, is the last frost date for New Orleans. This is beyond counterintuitive for a native Pennsylvanian like me, for whom the Philadelphia Flower Show (this year March 3-11) has served as a harbinger of a far-distant spring, last frost date April 17. My first few growing seasons here were terribly disorienting, marked…
Louisiana Latitudes 