Unlocking early gardening: Is it safe to plant in New Jersey yet?

With the warm weather we’ve been having for the past week or so, everything is in bloom throughout New Jersey.

Home gardeners are wondering whether it’s too early to plant annuals just yet. Small vegetable plants and small annual flowers usually go in after Mother’s Day to be safe.

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That’s the general rule for much of New Jersey is Mother’s Day. My father always told me to wait till May 15 to be safe.

The long-range forecast for the next 10 days shows lows in the upper 40s to mid-50s throughout most of the state.

It doesn’t look like temperatures will be anywhere near freezing throughout New Jersey over the next 10 days.

So most people would be safe to put their tender, tiny vegetable seedlings and Garden Center plants in the ground.

The same would go for annual flowers like petunias and Verbena. It looks like we can take advantage of an early planting season this spring in the Garden State.

Opinions expressed in the post above are those of New Jersey 101.5 talk show host Dennis Malloy only.

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