Tomato Plant Update #3

We planted the tomatoes today, but beforehand I got some shots of them still in thier cups.

Here they are from the top:





And the side:

Tomatoes are Finally In!

It took longer than expected, but the little tomato starts I've been tending since Tammy gave them to me back on March 25. It's been on and off cold at night, and we're still getting some winter rains, but I decided to get them planted out. They're pretty hearty by now and have gotten really big in their little cups!

This is the Early Ssubakus Aliana, in one of the big planter boxes:



Here's the Black Cherry in the other big planter (I put them on opposite ends for maximum spread, and intend to put bell peppers on the empty sides tomorrow).



Here are the Cherokee Purple, Tomatillo and Isis Candy (left to right):

Lettuce and Greens Plantings

We finally got our boxes moved to the right spots in our yard today! My husband has been working crazy hours, including late nights and weekends, so it's taken us over a month just to get a few hours together to move the boxes and fill them with the rest of the soil.

As an incentive to get it done, I bought some nice lettuce, basil and giant chard starts, as well as a strawberry plant from the accordian man at the farmer's market and 6 organic starts from the hardware store, all of which we got planted today. Tomorrow, I'm going to follow up by sowing lettuce seeds, as everything I've read suggests planting new lettuce seeds every two weeks.

We still haven't put our tomato plants out yet. There have actually been a few cold nights lately, despite warm days and I don't want to expose them to a serious chill. We will get them out next weekend. I'm hoping in the meantime that Tammy can come over and help me plan where they should go!

So, today's plantings in the lettuce bed were:

6 x romaine lettuce starts
6 x speckled butter lettuce starts
6 x regular lettuce starts
6 x mesclun lettuce starts
6 x arugula starts


We also planted 1 basil start in a little box on the decking and the seven strawberry plants in a strawberry pot on the lower deck.

Here are some pictures - they're not great quality - from my phone - but I wanted to remember the beginning of the bed as a comparison later in the year.

Little romaines and baby giant kale peeking from behind the lavender. 

Speckled lettuces and pinwheel.

Our two little boxes, finally next to each other, rather than perpendicular!

Tomato Plant Update

It's official... I got Tammy's tomato starts just over three weeks ago, on March 25, and they're still alive!

Update on My Tomato Plants

Here are my little chalupas as of today, April Fools. Tammy started the seeds on February 13, which makes them now 6.5 weeks old. I pruned off the bottom suckers today, mostly because I'd heard it's not good to get the leaves wet and it was getting hard to water the plants without wetting the bottom sucker leaves.