More Seeds Started

Sunday was really warm and pleasant. We made the most of it, because we knew the rain was coming back.

Batch even managed to escape and come over for a bit.

I transplanted most of the rest of the peppers into 4-inch pots and stuck them in the greenhouse. They are all looking good.

The chickens really made a difference on this piece of lawn. It doesn't take them long to strip an area.

I harvested this lovely leek on Monday. Catherine also took home some to make soup with.

After that lovely warm sunny day on Sunday, it cooled off, and rained again, starting Monday night, and just starting to clear up now, on Wednesday. The forecast calls for the next few days to be sunny again. No matter what various folks are saying in the ER, it's NOT time to plant tomatoes yet. It's still much too cold. We're just at the last frost date, which means you can plant "post frost date" plants, but not heat-loving summer plants. And this year is an El Nino year, meaning everything is going to be wetter and cooler. We are still having nights in the low 40s, even if the trend is warming. Tomatoes, beans, squash, melons, and peppers should be planted when soil temperatures are reliably over 60 degrees. That's gonna be about 3 weeks from now, somewhere around mid to late May. What it IS perfect time for is to start the squash and melons in the germination box for transplanting in May. I potted up Ronde De Nice zucchini, Gray Zucchini, Bidwell Casaba, Boston Marrow, and Galeux. I realized I missed two things on my Baker Creek list, so I reordered those yesterday as well.