Getting Ready to Plant Tomatoes & More

Our tomato plants are growing great and we're about ready to put them in the ground.  We started them several weeks ago and they're getting pretty tall now:

We've been starting to harden them by putting them outside every evening when we get home so the get used to the sunlight.  We have a two tiered indoor greenhouse where we start our seeds.  We also have eggplant starting to grow.  We haven't gotten as much planted indoors as we usually do.  The chicks, and especially the time building their coop, have slowed down our planting.  We'll be sowing more seed directly into the ground this year than normal.  The lettuce, kohlrabi, and some other vegetables that we sowed a few weeks ago outside in the beds have started to come up.

I hope to turn over our Spring cover crop in most of the beds this weekend and start sowing seeds.  The clover didn't grow as tall as I would have liked but we definitely have some green to work back into the soil and clover improves the nitrogen content in the soil as it grows so the soil will definitely be better off with its small amount of growth than if we hadn't planted anything at all.  Our last frost date is May 15 but the weather for the next 10 days looks good to go ahead and plant.  Also, even if it frosts, most of the seeds we plant this week will not be coming up by then anyway and if they are, we can cover them for a night with plastic.  Better to get a head start since we weren't able to start as many plants indoors as usual.

Our tomato plants are growing great and we're about ready to put them in the ground.  We started them several weeks ago and they're getting pretty tall now:

We've been starting to harden them by putting them outside every evening when we get home so the get used to the sunlight.  We have a two tiered indoor greenhouse where we start our seeds.  We also have eggplant starting to grow.  We haven't gotten as much planted indoors as we usually do.  The chicks, and especially the time building their coop, have slowed down our planting.  We'll be sowing more seed directly into the ground this year than normal.  The lettuce, kohlrabi, and some other vegetables that we sowed a few weeks ago outside in the beds have started to come up.

I hope to turn over our Spring cover crop in most of the beds this weekend and start sowing seeds.  The clover didn't grow as tall as I would have liked but we definitely have some green to work back into the soil and clover improves the nitrogen content in the soil as it grows so the soil will definitely be better off with its small amount of growth than if we hadn't planted anything at all.  Our last frost date is May 15 but the weather for the next 10 days looks good to go ahead and plant.  Also, even if it frosts, most of the seeds we plant this week will not be coming up by then anyway and if they are, we can cover them for a night with plastic.  Better to get a head start since we weren't able to start as many plants indoors as usual.

Our tomato plants are growing great and we're about ready to put them in the ground.  We started them several weeks ago and they're getting pretty tall now:

We've been starting to harden them by putting them outside every evening when we get home so the get used to the sunlight.  We have a two tiered indoor greenhouse where we start our seeds.  We also have eggplant starting to grow.  We haven't gotten as much planted indoors as we usually do.  The chicks, and especially the time building their coop, have slowed down our planting.  We'll be sowing more seed directly into the ground this year than normal.  The lettuce, kohlrabi, and some other vegetables that we sowed a few weeks ago outside in the beds have started to come up.

I hope to turn over our Spring cover crop in most of the beds this weekend and start sowing seeds.  The clover didn't grow as tall as I would have liked but we definitely have some green to work back into the soil and clover improves the nitrogen content in the soil as it grows so the soil will definitely be better off with its small amount of growth than if we hadn't planted anything at all.  Our last frost date is May 15 but the weather for the next 10 days looks good to go ahead and plant.  Also, even if it frosts, most of the seeds we plant this week will not be coming up by then anyway and if they are, we can cover them for a night with plastic.  Better to get a head start since we weren't able to start as many plants indoors as usual.