Had a perfect weekend for planting last frost stuff. It rained Friday night leaving the ground softened, and Saturday was overcast. I managed to make a raised strawberry bed and plant it, make hills and plant pumpkins and cantaloupe, and make and plant a raised squash/zucchini bed. I also planted lima beans, and a bunch of hollyhocks and sunflowers have found their homes around the yard.
The peas are doing really great and are starting to wrap their tendrils around sticks I put up for a makeshift trellis. I am going to try to let one cantaloupe plant climb up the fence and put pantyhose hammocks under the fruit for support. It's something I read about and I would be tickled if it worked; we'll see.
Today I took on the challenge of transplanting the tomato and tomatillo plants. I just figured out that when tomato seedlings get their second leaves, you should transplant them into bigger containers. The fine little hairs that grow along the stem will turn into roots when you bury them up to their first leaves. The problem here is that I have over a hundred tomato seedlings growing and there is no way I'm going to be able to transplant them all. I started with the biggest and best, and I'll probably end up giving some away.
All that's left to put out in the garden is tomatoes, tomatillos, peppers, and catnip. They all need a little more time to grow. They also need at least another week to get hardened off to the outdoors.
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