Busy planting week

Finally! The long range forecast was looking good and it is far later in May than I've ever planted so this week I planted everything.

Monday night I transplanted the majority of my seed trays and setup the garden soaker hoses. Good thing I gave them a good soaking that night cause we had a record breaking hot day on Tuesday.

Wednesday night I finished transplanting the basil which was the only thing left of the seed trays and I put in the following seeds:
- Zucchini
- burp-less cucumbers
- more spinach
- lots of tall trailing nasturtions
- and a few seeds of marigolds

Everything is looking wonderful although I need to pull weeds soon.

Now that it's decided to stop being winter we've switched straight to summer and have needed the air conditioning every day.

My asparagus have gone to fern in all this nonsense. Unfortunately when I was gone for the week in CA the asparagus grew too tall to cut so it doesn't look as though I'll get any this year. Hindsight being 20/20 as usual, I don't think the spot I planted the asparagus in was the best. At the time I did not have the tiller and now that I do, I think I'm disturbing the roots too much. It didn't come back as much this year so it may be just as well to leave it alone.

Seed Trays, and more snow...

Well my seed trays have been doing well in the dining room window light. I was able to get them outside for a few hours daily for about a week. On this past Monday it was 88F and a couple plants got a bit sunburnt (wasn't supposed to get that hot). Then with our crazy weather it snowed Wednesday night and we got about 3-4 inches of wet sloppy stuff. It's been mostly cold and raining since then.

I've reached a tricky point in time. I'm gone all next week for work so I'm going to take a gamble on the weather forecast. It's supposed to be back to the normal weather for this time of year so I'm going to plant the hardier plants from the seed trays and put in the watering system tomorrow. The garden is my hobby and I can't expect my dear hubby to do all that I do so I'm going to get it down to half the seed trays that need to be tended.

This picture was from two weeks ago.

And this picture from last weekend.