Yesterday I finally got my tomatoes in the ground. I have been working on hardening them off for the last week or so, and they were so tall I couldn't keep them underneath the grow light anymore. So outside they went. I also put out my tomatillos. I ended up buying 3 live tomatillo plants off of eBay since I only had one healthy plant out of the 6 that I planted - and you need at least 2 to get fruit. The only place I could find live tomatillos was eBay - go figure.

Before I planted the tomatoes I needed to move some rouge potatoes that had survived in the bed from last year. I just moved them all over to the center row of my potato bed. Then in went the tomatoes. I put in 3 tomatillo plants (2 that I bought and 1 of my own), and 11 tomato plants. I still have my pineapple tomatillo to put in if it lives, and I have another black cherry tomato that is still small that will need to go out later.

The other beds are doing well. My shallots, spinach, lettuce, carrots, and snow-pea bed is looking great. My snow peas should be getting flowers soon. The potato bed is now full, and looking good as well. I'm going to have lots of potatoes this year hopefully.

My beans on the other hand are looking rather sad. I planted my edamame about 2 weeks ago and only a few are starting to come up. So I threw a few more seeds into the ground just in case. My cabbage and bok-choi have been progressing slowly, but are still a long ways off. Oh, and my cucumbers have started to come up.

In the platers things are doing great. I cut all of the mesculin mix lettuce, and my other two lettuce platers are looking good. The strawberry has lots of baby strawberries on it and is getting more flowers. I should get a bunch just from that one planter. Both artichokes are doing well too - but no sign of any flowers or anything on them - just leafy. We'll see what happens with them.

I took some pictures, but only of the back garden, the first pictures for May. I should be taking some of the front garden this week, but I have a midterm due Thursday (stupid take home midterm) and then a huge program due on Sunday night (Anyone feel like writing a checkpointing and incremental logging algorithm for me while I garden - free tomato plants to the first taker.)

So go check out the image galleries. Later.