It's been called the Super Bowl of Gardening; May Long Weekend is when many of Saskatchewan's Gardeners beging to work their magic.

May Long Weekend is normally the safe weekend to plant gardens, but with the early spring many people have already started.

Misty Gardens owner and Horticulturist Paul Kneeshaw says the little blast of winter Humboldt and area received shouldn't bother some plants.

"It'll depend a little bit on what kind of plants they are. Things like cabbages should be fine. We had ours outside and they had snow all over them and they're good. Some of the trees, there's a bit of frost burning on the the edges of the leaves, but they weren't leafed out so much that it was a problem for those trees. So I think for the most part we were lucky that it didn't freeze so hard that we lost a lot of leaves."

Kneeshaw says the risk of frost is low enough to transplant plants into the garden with little to no worry.

Kneeshaw also explains why there is no time like the present to get the garden in.

"Anything that isn't in the ground can probably go in the ground now with plans of maybe putting a blanket over them if we do get a frost that comes a bit later, but we should be done with all that now. It looks like we're good to go to get all of the gardening things done." 

Like many things in life, Gardening also has its trends.

Kneeshaw describes the hot flower for the 2016 growing season.

"One of the hot plants of the year is called Night Sky. It's a new Petunia that everybody wants to have this year."

Kneeshaw says Saskatchewan normally has a 100 day growing season before the risk of frost starts.

The risk of frost is low enough to transplant plants into the garden with little to no worry.

 

Watch the full interview with Paul Kneeshaw here: