TOMATO TUESDAY!!!!!!!!!

finally!!! the weather is warming up enough to put out the tomato babies. unfortunately, it will not be today as i had originally planned. with the low expected to drop down to 39 degrees tonight, i'll have to wait one more day. so, today i will get all the plots ready for tomorrow's transplanting and seed sowing extravaganza. what that translates to is, a day of tilling, tilling, weeding, and more tilling. once that is done, and the tomato holes have been dug with compost mixed in, i'll install the stakes and get the milk jug cloches ready. i'm also gonna scavenge more compost and use the extra coffee bags to plant a few sacks of lettuce, leeks, and other greens. if there is time left over, i will be moving all my gardening supplies from the basement into the garage, hopefully creating a cute little potting cottage in there with my new "free from the alley" formica table. yippee!!

here are the best looking tomato babies that will go out into the garden tomorrow.

2 hillbilly potato leaf

2 violet jasper

2 giant white

+/- 1 yellow beam pear (if there is room left over)

and i have a few sad looking runner ups.

pepper seedlings also going out tomorrow. 

due to lack of labeling, i'm not sure which ones are which.

all in all, i think i have a few each of:

fish pepper

garden sunshine

chervena chushka

and new this year, napoleon sweet.

check this out!!!!

a few days ago, two little fish pepper plants popped up!!

(peppers confuse me.)

also due to a lack luster labeling system, 

my two varieties of leeks got mixed in with the red of florence onions.

luckily, i can tell the sage from the basil seedlings.

i didn't have the greatest luck starting the squash and cukes indoors. 

only 1 out of 6 of the burgess buttercup and red kuri squash germinated,

and only 4 out of 12 of the lemon cucumbers popped up.

looks like some direct sowing for those guys.

and although i had a good germination rate on the mexican sour gherkins,

i did have a problem with stunted growth, 

and none of them survived being transplanted into larger containers.

so, i'm gonna start the sour gherkins again indoors, in little newspaper pots,

while i work on getting the trellis ready. 

grow, veggie garden, grow!!!