Don't plant until memorial day!

I read this gardening book "Joy of Gardening" and it is about gardening in Utah. The women recommended not planting until memorial weekend for the warm crops. They claimed that there is always a last late freeze. I did not heed their advice and the following happened.

This weekend it was supposed to be colder but not freeze! Daniel and I planted the peppers and tomatoes and put in the bean seeds fully aware that we would need to cover the garden. Here is a picture of the covered garden.

 

Sunday night we covered the garden again and it began to rain. At 10 pm when I went to bed it was still raining. When we woke up this is what we saw.

 

Knowing that I was not the only one to have a frozen garden we went to the nursery as fast as we could get out of the house. We bought new peppers, tomatoes and finally found Sweet Basil, and I added a cantaloupe at the last minute. These items will camp out in the garage until June 1st.

Although the garden was wilted and struggling, we still picked some radishes for dinner. Yummy. I learned that I missed one or two in the thinning process. The middle radish had the biggest greens so I was expecting a huge radish. I pulled it out and with it came the radish on the right. The greens had hidden it and instead of a huge radish I got two tiny ones. Thinning is important. The radishes were supposed to take 23 days to mature but have taken longer, much longer which I am assuming is due to the four snowy days we have had since I planted them.