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Morning has Broken
The next morning dawned clear and bright. A very welcome change from the cold rain and dreary, overcast skies of the past few days.
Some springs are like that in Vancouver. March and April can be wet and cold and even the first half of May. Then toward the end of May, just when most people have given up on planting any kind of garden, the wind comes up to whip away the clouds and the sun gets to work and quickly warms the soil.
If you’re smart, you can get some great deals on bedding plants; but if you plant them too soon, they won’t grow—they’ll just lie there in a miserable lump if you’re lucky. If you’re not very lucky, you’ll get a cold frost or a sprinkle of snow that will kill your new, tender little plants.
But if you put in a greenhouse, even if it’s not
