May These are the days that try gardener's souls, or at least their budgets. Everywhere you look there are new plants to buy. The garden centers are bursting with choice specimens.
Supermarkets have petunias for sale out front.
And every grandpa who started too many flats of marigolds is selling them from his front porch. You want them all, but first you have to plant the mountain of stuff you ordered from the catalogs back in January. Actually, if you're doing anything indoors, you're babying your most tender seedlings the first week of May or so until they go outdoors to harden off. Then the inside to-do list becomes really short, because all that's left is to wash your seed starting equipment and put it away until next year. And no matter how little you want to do it, clean it up now.