interesting dan can you tell me more about the 3 sisters method? barbe sounds like under your conditions that is the only way to get corn at a decent time. guess i sometimes take things for granted...my garden grows corn like crazy, its tomato's that i have had trouble with in this zone. i dont have a problem getting tomato's but never enough to can like i want to do...planted two years in a row and they seem to be coming on but late in the year long after my other garden things i can are about done. usually over the garden by then and there is just never enough to juice :( been planting rutgers to juice and other varieties to eat on, but none seem to come on like gang busters like i need them to.

Yep Menards is where I went. We had a lot of snow and they did not shovel. All my favorite promix was hidden behind 2-3 feet of snow... lol Now that we are melting I am going to go out there and get some snow or not! My menards had all the dirt/soil outside in an area where the snow blew in all over. I plan to check it out tonight or tomorrow to get some of the awesome promix! I loved it last year. Karen

Assuming you're in Zone 5, I'd wait just a tad longer on the sunnies, but not sure about the pumpkins, BUT...I did do the sunnnies mid-March last year, and got fine results. I was pushing the envelope. I had pumpkins volunteer in my compost pile for a couple years, so perhaps there's no harm in doing those now.

Lynne---if you get a hold of me in the fall---I'll probably have seed from those salvias if you want some. daisy08---I try to plant groups of plants in groups of 5 to keep them looking full. Some of the plants take two to three years to develop to there full potential. Just have to be patient with them. They may only look green for a couple of years, but it's worth the wait. I'm also pretty deligent about watering during the hot time of the year. Duane