Almost planting time!

 The weather is going to be warm and sunny for the next few days. Skies are blue, the trees are filling out, the birds are singing, another glorious spring day. Officially Spring now.

So I took the chance to put the tomatoes and cucumber out in the garden,  not planted yet, and moved the sweet peas and peppers to the porch for maximum sunshine.

 

The soil was dry on the surface but you can see in the pictures how it's a little darker after scraping the soil to level it at the trellis. The soil in the pots was very dry being mostly peat moss, so I used the existing hose and watered them well and filled the tray as much as possible and poured that on the onions. If all three tomatoes survive and thrive, that is going to be an AMAZING tomato crop this year!

 

 

A second pepper was coming up right next to the shorter seedling so I plucked it while it was still small and just left it on the soil. The lettuces are coming along nicely. Never have had good sprouting with them and of course, it looks like the red lettuce is again the fastest. The larger ones may well be Romaine, will see when they get bigger but at this rate, it's going to be too warm for them when I plant them out, even if they are in the south shady bed. Without a greenhouse situation or even grow lights it's hard to start seeds when it's time in order to plant them out in time.

Looking at previous photos, it took 5 days for those peppers to get from just emerging to that stage. Radishes are about that fast (minor pout about not being able to plant them again this year)

That's all for now, ten days until the end of the month, hope to get soil and plants in the ground next month.