Jennifer, thanks for starting this week's thread.

I don't have any veggies in the ground, but Madge said her Peonies were as stiff as a board this morning. The min/max shows a low of 19, up to 29 now at 9:00 with sun shining bright.

I am wanting to see how the greenhouse held up last night. Neighbor said that he was going to put another electric heat in there last night, if he did, I expect most plants were saved, if not we may not need to get more ground ready to plant.

I held off putting any more plants in the ground with this killing freeze thing this morning , I just covered what I had out. Started up my Mantis and tilled the onion patch. onions can make it in the low 20's ,didn't bother covering them.

About my potatoes , I dug into a couple of hills and saw that the seed piece was sprouting and not rotted so I'm ok with that.

about the rabbit problem , I've seen that they have a preference for young brocolli plants but hardly bother the cabbage or cauliflower. Besides using milk jugs to cover them , I've also made little chicken wire cages to go over the plants.

I guess the next thing to worry about is serious spring storms , large hell (hail) , or worst..Last year I had tennis ball size hail brake out a couple of windows in my house , busted side view mirrors on the vehicles....

I'd like to plant some seed for all the cool season things ...greens and such.... in the next week or so, before time to start planting corn ,beans, putting out tomatoes...in early April.

Rick

I am ready to try to get my Mantis running, it has set for two years, and did not even start well when I used it last. I am waiting for the weather to warm up and take the Mantis to spot out of the wind ad in the bright sun where I can place it on a low work table and install the new carburetor. I am sure it is going to need other work also.

My rear tine tiller is still sitting on the lift gate on the pickup. I had started repair on it, and just bought an new engine for it, but the tiller has been sitting there for a couple of weeks because I don't like to work in the cold wind.

Amy, I think I am going to like the Happy Frog potting soil. I have been mixing it about 50/50 with PRO mix and the plants seem to like it, but the cost of potting soil it too high. The pro mix is about $13.xx a bag, the Happy Frog is about $23.xx for a smaller bag.

I did not do a good job, but here is a picture of 18 Sun Gold and 18 Beefmaster plants

I need to move some of my tomato seedlings into the ground soon. Just not enough room under the grow lights. Thinking of putting a few out on the 21st. Looks like several days of decent weather with a few into the 40's at night. The last 30 I see is on the 26th at 39 degrees. After that no lower than mid-40's. Have I lost my mind?

My microclimate is so unstable here I would be afraid to plant tomatoes or peppers any time soon.

Amy, I could not get my tomato picture to transfer above, I will try again. I have about 200 tomatoes and peppers under the lights that I will up-pot soon. These plants were a little small, but they will soon go to the greenhouse.

It's a gamble I know, so I will only try with a few plants. Don't have much to lose as I really need the indoor space. I am pretty comfortable that we will not hit the freeze point again, but I am a little worried that the 40 degree nights will stunt the growth. No matter, on Tuesday the dice are rolled.

I like to take chances. If I have extra plants to back it up. Larry those babies look great. I may try happy frog mix. I bought some one year and was very happy with it.

i cover my early toms with milk jugs:

Peek a Boo

If a bad freeze is really coming on I'll lay a row cover over the jugs.

a couple of years back we had a late Apr freeze after 50 toms were put out. We set 5 gal buckets over them and then a hoop tunnel over them. It was a lot of work but it got the toms through.

Rick

I was a little worried this morning when I peeked at the plants in the hoop house before rushing off to work.

BUT, they all survived!

Rick came out and tilled in some Black Kow in the SG.

I didn't have time to do much. I did clean out half of my original herb bed. It was mostly henbit, but while cleaning it out, noticed that the cilantro has made a comeback. It usually does that in the fall....but, nope. I really think we were just too dry. Something was certainly off last year. In so many ways.

I want to preserve it (freezer) this season in little cubes with oil. Has anyone done that?

I'm glad it came back. After removing the henbit, some of the spinach went it. The rest will go in tomorrow if I have time after work.

There's not much left in that small herb garden. Just a struggling sage plant and two lavenders, which should perk up soon. By the time the sage and lavender perk up, it will be too hot for the spinach (and cilantro) so it should all be fine.

Rick brought over a few more strawberry plants, so hopefully I'll be able to plant them tomorrow too.

As well as the cabbage. Gotta find the time.

And the kale. Gotta find the time and place. lol

Swiss chard. Same.

And, really, it's time to put in the carrot seed and bunching turnip seed and radish seed too.

My heart longs for sugar and snow peas....but, the aphids just won't allow it.

(that was dramatic, I know.)

Speaking of aphids, Rick found a lot of ladybugs while pulling the fall turnips, etc. today. Apparently, they've been overwintering there. He threw them into the hoop house.

Everyone says....wait for the ladybugs and they'll take care of your aphid problems. We have lots and lots of ladybugs, but way too many aphids. The variety of aphids that get out-of-hand, is the kind that likes peas of all sorts.

It's a sad thing. I love peas.

Sorta like the squash bugs and zucchini/all winter squash--I love the squash, but can't win against the squash pests.

I'm just super happy all the plants made it last night.

Here's a picture of the Dollar Tree waste baskets and giant ziplock bags placed over them to use as frost protection. Not my garden or plants.

Its raining here on the south side of OKC this early morning.

Living in OKC , never thought I'd complain about too much rain. But I really need to till the garden one more time and I can't get it dry enough. I've tilled it twice, to till in the rye grass I grew for a winter cover. But I've yet to make my raised rows. The soil rakes a lot better if its freshly tilled.

My tomatoes plants are right on schedule. I planted seed later this year and they're where I want them to be at this time. I'm thinking first week of April to go in the ground. So I gotta have several days here of no rain.

First time in many years, I've spent some money on my seed starting operation. I've gone to LED lights. I bought two that are 4 foot long that are fairly inexpensive.

I liked those so well I went with a larger, more intense light. They advertise it for the marijuana grower's inside greenhouses :) . I'm hanging it over my tomato plants. It has a dimmer, so as the plant grows I can keep dimming the light. It opens the door for possibly growing a tomato plant over the winter inside the house.

So I moved the long 4 ft lights under my top shelf on my plant table and made it usable space for the first time ever. And I've started pepper plants on that shelf.

I've also added fans to jiggle the plants. I'm thinking a reason my plants got so tall and leggy was not enough light and I read that fans moving the plants will cause them to thicken the stalk and grow more bushy. We will see.

Lynn, that is a nice grow shelf, it's a little like mine . but much nicer. I made my shelf to be like a coffee table, with the light hanging under the table and the flats sitting on the floor, it did not take long for Madge to veto that idea, so I just 4 more legs and made it two story, and places it over the tub in our bathroom, that did not go over too well either.

I started a 10 x 10 work and plant room on my shop, but that got turned into garage for my RTV, which left my growing area in the house in the center bedroom. I think that most of my growing supplies are going over to neighbors greenhouse.

I feel that I must keep a small set-up here to keep from going into withdrawals.

My grow shelf has (6) 4' LED tubes on the top shelf, and (6) 4' florescent tubes on the bottom shelf. I lower my lights to be close to the plants, often having the lights a few inches higher on one end, and just sliding the flat down the shelf as the plants grow.

If I build new, or modify the light shelf I have, it will have more room between shelves.

We finally got out potatoes planted yesterday. I was one beat up old man yesterday by the time we had finished. Neighbor did all the work, all I did was drive the tractor and cut potatoes.

You light shelf area is cheerful, Lynn.

And good job, Larry, on getting the potatoes in.

We are pretty wet here too. Did I hear that El Nino is coming back? After 3 years?

We sure don't need any flooding rain like in 2015. That was only our second year out here. It drowned my garden and there was squash, zucchini, bean plants coming up far away from where they were planted. I suppose the rain washed them to those locations.

After May, it went on to be a decent garden year, tho.

Anyway....

My tomato plants are not looking wonderful. They are late in getting potted on.

Here's something I figured out.

The peat pellets that I am a fan of....those have fertilizer in them. I've always wondered why seedlings thrived in those (especially the extra-large sized ones) for days--even weeks--longer than they should. Especially compared to the ones started in sterile seed starter.

The ones started in sterile seed starter were showing definite signs of nutritional issues. And even the ones in the pellets are beginning to show it. It's way past time to pot on.

Luckily, I'm back on my regular schedule so am off work today. A quick trip to Marcums to pick up a bag of potting mix...and a houseplant. A prayer plant.

A couple of years ago, I purchased the large and extra-large peat pellets that came in a tray. You have to order the larger pellets online now-a-days. They aren't available in stores without a tray. I don't need more trays, just the pellets. ANYWAY, a cool thing discovered this week is that the pots that I puchased from Greenhouse Megastore, fit into the extra-large peat pellet trays. The bottoms of the pot are smaller and fit right into those "holes" where the pellets fit. I love that. The pots are similar to the ones from Bootstrap farmer. They seem really well-made and are pretty colors too...but less expensive.

Welp, I hear that Roomba is where she shouldn't be and the dryer just buzzed, so it's time to get off the computer now.

Jennifer isn’t that our lifelong conundrum, Time and space. My schedule literally coincides with rain lately. While I’m working it’s fair weather sunny and days off it’s rainy misty or windy. I always have projects indoors but I would like to maybe get some stuff done outside too.
Lynn I remember Dawn helping me years ago troubleshoot legginess and come to find out they needed a fan and cooler temps. I had it so warm for them they just kept shooting up too fast. That’s when I was growing for market and had 100’s maybe 1000’s of starts

I don't have much trouble with legginess, but I always use my grow lights.

I will try to post a picture of plants that were started at about the same time. Madge started some tomato seeds a little ahead of me, but only used the light at the window, I used light shelf.

Although Madge's plants (in the round pot) are a few days older, the plants in the flat are healthier. I am not sure what kind of tomato plants Madge planted, but I suggested that they be up-potted, and placed lower in the soil, then under the lights. I have approx 120 Golden Jubilee tomatoes in the flat.

I also have 70 + sweet peppers planted 3-7-23 coming along. In the flat above are Ash County, Calif. Wonder, and one that Is just listed a Large Red Sweet. All of these plants seem behind, but I think that they will be growing like weeds when the weather warms up, and, also I have tried to start my plants a little later because it turns in too much of a job carrying plants in and out when it get close to planting time and you don't have enough room on your grow shelves.

Kim , heat from the LED's and afternoon sunlight might be a problem, but I think the fans circulating the air should minimize that.

I really think light was a problem. That window is southern exposure but the morning sun is blocked by a patio cover. It does not get daylight till 10 or 11 am. These LED's are suppose to replicate daylight. And I'm getting better coverage, the LED above the tomatoes is suppose to cover a 3 x 4 foot area if hung at 18" over the plants.

I'm trying to recall how many times Dawn potted up her tomatoes. I'm thinking twice, first to a 3" pot and then maybe to a larger pot, something like 6" ?

I can't do anything without lights. We have one west window, and one east window, ( that could be used for plants ), but Madge keeps her house plants in front of them. I also have some heat mats that come in handy. I can get by without the mats, but they do speed up germination in cool weather.

We have not had any luck getting the Covington sweet potatoes to sprout, so fixed a flat of them and placer on top of my LED lights on 3-15-23, and they are already starting to grow roots and sprouts, the ones in the greenhouse don't appear to be doing anything yet, although the Red Wine Velvet are sprouting very well. I also have a small pot of purple sweet potato sprouts starting.

I think that Dawn also used a lot of Solo plastic cups. ( I think they were the 16 oz. size ) I use the Solo cups also, but I like the shorter pots that you buy plants in at the nursery that come in the 10 count tray, but when you give plants away, the small pots never find their way back to your house, so you are always short on that size pot.

Well, the weather is still bad. 20 degrees or wind blowing like a bat out of hell. Looked at the 3 day avg for soil temp and it was in the upper 40s. Probably why things are so spotty in the garden.

Spotty peas, beets and no potatoes up yet. Onions seem to be loving it though. Carrot seed is down and hopefully we can replace those broccoli plants in a week or two. Afraid to put the little guys out with this wind.

I was coming back from neighbors greenhouse this evening and drove past a small garden spot we started out in the pasture and noticed that some turnips were coming up, did not see a beet anywhere. This is a new garden spot that we have tilled and we may not get anything to grow there. We don't have any potatoes up either, matter of fact, we did not get the last of them planted till yesterday. It is still very wet here, it rained last night and today.

My onions don't look good, the henbit has about got them covered, it has been so wet for so long that I have not been able to clear the weeds and grass from them. I am afraid that if I plant anything soon, I will have to plant it in the mud. The only way we were able to plant potatoes yesterday was we planted them about 300 yards from the house on a sandy knoll.

I think my soil temp is about the same as yours.

Tomatoes were left in the hoop house overnight. They did fine. It stayed fairly warm last night. However, it's the kind of day (today), that I want to know 'what is the weather gonna do'. These plants are not hardened off yet. It will perfect if the sun does not shine. If it is sunny, well, there may be a problem, Although I shaded them some in the hoop house. It's always a thing--hardening off plants especially when you leave the house for work.

For the first time, I have the problem y'all complain of every year. My tomatoes are getting huge and I'm running out of space. HJ gave me this grow tent thing that I've been using and all the shelves are full, so I had to move some to shelves in my shed. Now THOSE are full so I moved a few outside under clear plastic totes. I'll check them later, hopefully they'll do well so I can start hardening them off. But y'all best take a bunch at spring fling, I don't have anywhere to put all these things.

Most of the peas seem to have weathered the freeze ok. Maybe they'll grow enough to start producing? And the ones I planted in the driveway bed are starting to sprout. Those are mainly for improving the soil and not necessarily eating, so if they don't grow very big I'm not going to worry about it. That bed is going to be my flower bed, but I think I've decided I want at least one tree or bush there.

Looks to be a pretty good weekend so maybe I can get some more grass cleared out and expand my garden. Thanks to our unexpected bathroom remodel, what little I had earmarked for garden stuff has been reallocated, so back to planning how to do this on the cheap.

Since I'm new to putting a fan on my tomato plants, I'm wondering if that would replace hardening outside ? But I think they also have to get some real sunlight.

Lynn, I don't remember using a fan, but I often shorten the hardening off by placing the plants in the sun and forgetting about them, which will give tan of neat white places on the leaves. I might risk a few plants, but I really think hardening off is important to the plants. I also think that running my LED's down close to the plants might make hardening off a little more forgiving. I run 6 bright LED's on one shelf, which may be an overkill, but it works.

Tomato Dawn bumps:

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https://www.houzz.com/discussions/2089623/to-tomato-gurus-especially-dawn

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https://www.houzz.com/discussions/2065568/possible-frost-save-tomatoes

https://www.houzz.com/discussions/2100369/fiber-row-cover-really-work-in-ok-tomato

Rick

Jen, do you have a pic of the grow tent? I'm so glad you can use it. Makes me happy.

Also, my tomatoes have a real nutritional issue right now. I might be bumming some off of you. AND....welcome to the club. :)

Lynn, you still need to harden off to the sunlight too.

I'm just sitting down for the day. It's the season! The season of very long days. I mostly enjoy it, tho.

But, people wonder why I don't hate January and February. Well, it's because they're restful to me. From now to November, it's work until it's too dark outside to see.

I mostly worked in the shop. Potting on seedlings and all. I have some nutritional issues, I think. The seedlings not me. (Actually, I probably do too. I keep craving eggs and am limiting them to twice a week because of cholesterol.) Everything got a good drink of fish emulsion.

There's still a few things that need bigger pots. Maybe tomorrow. Maybe Friday. Although, Friday I want to go out with my son and husband. I'm trying to spend as much time with E as I can. He is finished with his school work as of this week. He's staying on as a student for another month because he was chosen to go to state for some electrician competition thing. And, he's working at the votech as the apprentice for the electrician contractor. He'll work until he gets all the hours in that he can. That will happen at the end of May/first of June.

I will say my heart is very sad. It's hard to imagine only seeing him a couple of times a year. I'm happy and excited for him too. It's just not what I imagined. I thought I would have my kids near me and someday grandchildren near me. We don't always get what we want, tho.

Is everyone ready for the storm that are coming in tomorrow? I haven't watched the news today, so I assume that's still on the forecast.

Rick, thanks for the link. I love Dawn's wisdom about gardening. I guess that the wisest thing I got from Dawn, was that amending soil is a never ending process, or at least it is for me. I doubt that I will have any organic matter to add this year, and I expect that I will see a decline in my gardening, not in area, but in quality of the soil.

We up potted 180 Golden Jubilee tomatoes, and over 300 roselle plants today. We don't have ground ready to plant all the plants we have started.

Yep. large hail is what I'll worried about.

Rick

Lynn a fan helps to strengthen plants and does help. The sun and temperature changes are what they need weaned into.

The other parts to Dawn's tomato series:

https://www.houzz.com/discussions/2054832/tomatoes-in-oklahoma-part-ii-soil-prep-planting

https://www.houzz.com/discussions/2055245/toamtoes-in-oklahoma-part-iii-successful-growth

https://www.houzz.com/discussions/2055865/tomatoes-in-oklahoma-part-iv-getting-keeping-the-harvest

HJ, I think I have a pic of it, pretty sure I posted one on Facebook.

Oh yeah! I remember seeing it, Jen. Duh. I even commented on it. My brain is so weird right now. I feel out-of-body most of the time.

And, I'm just amazed at Dawn's patience with me. She had already spent so much time talking about gardening and tomatoes....and here I come along late to the game (in 2014/2015) and ask all sorts of dumb questions that she had more-than-likely covered years before. Questions like--what's your favorite tomato?

Rick, thanks for the Dawn links, dayuum , that woman knew tomatoes. Incredible knowledge. And reading some of that has already saved me the trouble of trying to grow tomatoes indoors, she says the flavor is not there and its not worth the trouble.

I get 6 to 8 hours of sunlight through the window, and I rotate the trays daily, so all the plants get time right up next to the glass. Does it matter if its sunlight through glass or outside ?

I wouldn't think it would matter.

Tomatoes do ok in a greenhouse as long as temps are regulated.

Rick

I just brought 3 flats of tomatoes and egg plants from the greenhouse, and I brought 2 flats of tomatoes from the greenhouse yesterday to place under my lights. I think the problem we are having with the greenhouse is cold nights. These flats are just bare flats that will have from 100 to 300 small plants in each of them. I will get them to pot-up size then take them back to the greenhouse, hopefully the nights will be warmer then. I expect to take a couple of up-potted flats of peppers to the greenhouse today.

I never tried starting my own plants till I moved back to the country about 20 years ago. When I lived in town I really did not have the room to mess with starting vegetables inside, it was just easier to buy a few 6 packs and plant into a raised bed. I have been retired for over 20 years, and that is a big help for gardening, a stressful job just takes a lot out of you, and eats up a lot of your time.

That's been my problem with starting my own plants . Just don't have a good place to set up the lights. Wish I did , I'd probably save quite a bit of money. I end up buying quite a few flats of 6-pks of plants from various places around , it's just more convenient for me but it sure runs up my costs along with buying seed too , ( and amendments.... , row covers......, other supplies...). If I wasn't working I couldn't do it.

If I was retired I'd have more time but probably not enough money.

Rick

Larry you just flat blow me away with what you got there.

That will be a lot of potatoes and whatever else ...greens....beets.

I don't do spring turnips but I guess it's possible.

They just seem to be a fall thing to me.

Rick

Larry, I brought my tray of heirlooms, sungolds, and roselle indoors tonight. I, too, think it's a bit cool for them. They're already struggling with some type of deficiency. It's a first for me, really. They just don't look right. But, they were just potted up and given some fish emulsion, so hopefully they'll all look better in a couple of days.

The Jet Setters and most of the paste tomatoes are still out in the hoop house. If it's forecast to be below 40, I'll bring them in too. I care most about the Sungold, roselle, and the heirlooms.

I did spend some more time potting on flowers tonight. It is SO wet out here. Lots of rain and puddles.

I have too much for the shelves as it is, but I'm sitting here thinking about starting more herb seed. lol

I am pleased with the amount of veggie plants we have. It seems like just the right amount....if they all make it, of course.

Now, we'll see what the direct sown stuff will do in the next couple of months.

I'm at the stage where I'm taking stock and noticing what I don't have growing. Peppers are being finicky, only a couple germinated. No tomatillos so I started some more. None of my tree seeds sprouted, but I've never grown trees so I'm not sure what I did wrong with them. Flowers are a little sparse, I have a dozen or so cosmos and 3 or 4 calendula just sprouted, but that's it. Most of my wintersown containers have weeds since I recycle the soil instead of buying new every year. But I have tomatoes! Maybe I can find someone willing to trade fresh tomatoes for other veggies.

I moved a bunch outside yesterday, under plastic totes or other protection. Then we decided to go out to dinner so Cliff moved them all in the shed while I was getting ready. When I went to check on them, a couple look like they won't make it. Nothing concerning since I have a ridiculous number of plants, but everything's staying inside today to rest. We'll see how they look tomorrow.

And our never ending bathroom remodel saga continues. Contractor #3 started this morning. Maybe we'll get it finished this time???

Rick, I spend a lot more than I should, but I am also trying to build this place up, so I cant blame all my expenses on gardening. If you do a lot of gardening I expect that you can save money by starting your own seed, but it takes a lot of your time. The big plus to starting your own seeds is, that you get the type of plants you want, A lot of the plants you want just wont be on the shelf locally, some of them you may even have to do a web search to find seed for.

As I try to improve the land where I live, I use a pasture cultivator, disc, and a drag to repair the damage caused by erosion, armadillos, and whatever. When I get a bare spot neighbor, and I want to plant something in it, and being that he has a produce market, and we are also concerned about the economy, we plant food.

I have never planted spring turnips either, I am not really that fond of turnips, but neighbor thinks that he may be able to sell a few.

I was awakened this morning by a rain storm, which sound like it may have had some hail in it. There was also an emergency repair truck from the electric company in my driveway. I expect that lightening hit something and knocked out the power on the single phase line that goes up the mountain east of me, it seems to go out more often than the others, and being that there are not a lot of people on it, it seems to be the last one repaired, of course that happens to be the line that feeds my house. The highway department is out trying to clean out culverts on the other side of the highway and the cop cars are going back and forth, there may have been an accident because of water over the road. I have a few words of wisdom the the highway department, which are " if you want to control the floods like we have had in the past two years, you had better put in larger culverts". The creek in my pasture is flooded big time, but not as big as the flood we had last year that washed away my garden.

I have not been out to check the storm damage yet, it is still raining. I feel sure I will have erosion damage, I always do when I have bare soil and we get a rain like we got this morning. I know that there will be some erosion in the potato patch. I don't like breaking up ground on a slope like the new potato patch, but it had gotten so rough that it hurt my back to drive a tractor over it.

I had better shut up, I know that y'all don't have time to read this book.

I always have time and appreciate all of the updates stories etc.

Is light shelf abuse grounds for divorce?? I am trying to up-pot some tomato plants we have started, I am picking out about 5 of the best looking of each batch to put in larger containers, in hope they will grow a stronger rooting system. Each year we say that we need no more than 12 tomato plants ( we have never been able to get down to 12 plants). Anyway, Madge has 13 light starved tomatoes that I finally talked her to put under the lights. When Madge saw the short stock plants I was potting up, she brings me two more packs of seed to start for her. I did not go far enough is school to learn to cipher all these numbers down into 12 plants, and I still have more of different kinds of tomatoes in the greenhouse.-------------How did Noah ever cut his numbers down to 2, or 7 ?? If Noah had my decision making skills, he would still be working on the Ark, trying to get it big enough to take everything he wanted with him. I am beginning to understand why he wanted to get drunk and sleep naked.

Larry that cracks me up. Can you imagine him and his wife trying to decide. Yikes

Oh my word, Larry. That is so funny.

How's everyone? I'm tired. But in a good way.

We started out the day going to the laundromat. We like to go every 3 months or so to wash our large blankets and quilts, etc. Those giant washers seem to get everything so clean.

Then, went to Marcums to look around. They have all sorts of tomato, pepper, and other veggie plants. But, I don't need anything. Maybe a pepper or two, but only purchased some potting mix for Rick's superhot peppers. He's gonna up-pot them.

Then, made a grocery list and went shopping for those things. Wow. The price of everything still stuns me at checkout. And, we really buy a lot less. We simply don't waste any food nowadays. If it doesn't get eaten the first meal, it's repurposed into something else or taken for lunches.

I was so happy to get to spend several hours outside. At one point I was overwhelmed. There's so much that needs to be done. Mostly weeding.

The cabbages are all planted now. And the chard and kale. I had to get creative on where to put those things.

The tomatoes seem to be slowly coming out of their issues, which I believe is a phosphorous deficiency. Their new leaves are looking healthy. I can't believe we're at the time when we can look ahead at the nine day forecast to see about frosts. And, I'm showing nothing on mine which puts us into April Week 1. And, normally, my tomatoes go out at the end of April Week 2.

Tomorrow, I am hoping to plant the bunching turnips and radishes. It's doubtful I'll get around to the carrots because that bed needs to be cleaned out of mostly henbit. And I have to work tomorrow and have a thing to go to tomorrow evening.

After all of that, I decided to start borage and bergamot seed. It's probably too late to start those, but I did it anyway.

And, then cleaned up all the pots and tools and trays. I'm trying to get better about doing all of that.

And the eggs too. They're really muddy right now.

My Botanical Interests seeds came in. They had free shipping so I ordered new lettuce seed for fall and golden beets for fall. And sunflowers and bergamot.

Tomorrow is a new week. I hope it's a good one.

I took 4 flats of up-potted plants over to the greenhouse this afternoon because I just don't have any more room, when I got there, neighbor had 4 more flats of small plants waiting for me to bring home to up-pot and place under the lights, he seems not to understand that I can get 3 to 8 flats of up-potted plants out of one flat of small plants, we are JUST out of room. We will be building tables or just placing flats on the ground outside of the greenhouse tomorrow. A lot of the stuff we have in the greenhouse is stuff that should be direct seeded into the soil, but he is very excited about his greenhouse and wants get going on this gardening year, but he, nor I, can control the weather, and we have mud up to our ears, and that is more often than not the way it is in this valley every spring.

I still have 3 flats of small plants under the lights that need up-potted, those should equal about 8 flats of up-potted plants. Madge wants at least 4 plants from each of her 2 packs of tomato seeds, surely I can squeeze in 8 seeds somewhere.

Larry, I completely understand about how others don't get that one tray of small seedlings-- once potted on--equals a few trays of larger seedlings.

People don't understand if they aren't the ones doing it. There's only so much light shelf space...especially once those little seedlings move to bigger pots.