April is the month when the garden starts to take shape. Peas, greens and onions can be started earlier, and tomatoes can be started indoors, but the garden beds start to take shape in April. If the weather breaks in late March, or if you are a purebred Oregonian and thus immune to rain, its a good time to prepare garden beds.
Vegetables to start outdoors in April:
Beets and Swiss Chard
Radishes
Carrots
Potatoes
Cabbage
Broccoli
Cauliflower
April is also the time to start peppers and eggplants indoors, and it isn't too late to start tomatoes yet indoors.
Towards the end of April, I'm always anxious to get summer squash going (even though I know we will be sick of it come September), and usually plant at least hill one under a clear milk jug. To be kind, the results of this early planting have been mixed, and a hill planted two weeks later usually has squash at about the same time. But it always feels good to try.
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