Got eggs traded for tomatoes

 It's going to be a bit warmer today, still patchy overcast but not as cold as yesterday. I am happy to have multi colored eggs from someone who was happy to trade two of my tomato starts for a dozen. That is an amazing deal given the cost of eggs. I might start growing things just to trade them to people for things I need.

I don't think the beans are going to come up. It's been well over 10 days which is the longer time that they say beans will sprout.  The peppers are coming up very nicely though, just overnight two of them appeared. Left picture is this morning, right picture is yesterday.

 So I may not have beans this year and that trellis may be for my tomatoes instead. The peppers are two seeds per pellet so again with double planting works out. 

Meanwhile, out in the garden, the lettuce is leaping! That little sprout I'm still unsure whether it's tomato or radish, I planted both there.

The tomato I planted is still doing fine (I scraped a little fertilizer on the surface around it) and whatever was behind the trellis is gone. Still thinking it's likely from the fungus shroom I knocked over.

Just some reference shots for comparison down the road and just so dang proud of my tiny garden. If I have a tomato on the left, there's plenty of room on the right for another one and hope that the garlic doesn't mind it being there.

The peas are poppin' and seem to be on track for being the average height for the variety. Filling in that trellis well enough and hope there's enough to use when they start pumping out more pods.

The lettuce is loving this weather! I trimmed that day before yesterday and it's already looking shaggy again. I'm tempted to drop some beans seeds there when those are done. Despite the lettuce doing so well the soil really needs to be amended again. 

Of course I already knew the soil was good for greening, as evidenced by the tomato from two years ago going gangbusters on everything but fruit. I might just chop these down for some salad and then do a thorough turning of the soil, add in a little of that compost I bought and see what I want to do then.

The soil comparison between that and my raised bed is day and night and yet things grow in the most unlikely situations.