>> Yeah that's the plan, since seed starting failed miserably. Peppers and tomatoes did great, other stuff not so much. <<
Peppers and tomatoes are easier to start from seed.
>> Even cool weather crops like spinach, lettuce, carrots and radishes are having issues right now. My sugar snap peas either didn't germinate or got decimated by voles as soon as they were 2-3 inches high. <<
Alas!
>> The weather is roller coastering something fierce here right now, this week, high 70s to near 80s, but by Monday, back into the high 40s to low 50s, even high 30s on Weds, then back up again. <<
If your garden isn't too big, you could try covering the plants. Some folks like row covers. Some buy fancy glass cloches. I cut the bottoms off of milk jugs and use those as mini-greenhouses. Any kind of cover will typically grant one zone warmer, and you can layer them, like putting down jugs and then a floating row cover over them.
>> So I told the husband there is absolutely no point buying veggie plants until the weather straightens out. <<
Likely so.
>> Which might mean no garden again this year, unfortunately. <<
Well, you could probably grow shorter-season things, just not the long ones. Cherry tomatoes are among the fastest fruiting tomatoes, for instance, and summer squash grow in faster than winter squash.
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Peppers and tomatoes are easier to start from seed.
>> Even cool weather crops like spinach, lettuce, carrots and radishes are having issues right now. My sugar snap peas either didn't germinate or got decimated by voles as soon as they were 2-3 inches high. <<
Alas!
>> The weather is roller coastering something fierce here right now, this week, high 70s to near 80s, but by Monday, back into the high 40s to low 50s, even high 30s on Weds, then back up again. <<
If your garden isn't too big, you could try covering the plants. Some folks like row covers. Some buy fancy glass cloches. I cut the bottoms off of milk jugs and use those as mini-greenhouses. Any kind of cover will typically grant one zone warmer, and you can layer them, like putting down jugs and then a floating row cover over them.
>> So I told the husband there is absolutely no point buying veggie plants until the weather straightens out. <<
Likely so.
>> Which might mean no garden again this year, unfortunately. <<
Well, you could probably grow shorter-season things, just not the long ones. Cherry tomatoes are among the fastest fruiting tomatoes, for instance, and summer squash grow in faster than winter squash.