Memorial Day means remembering the men and women who have given their lives for the United States (although I've often wondered about the difference between today and Veterans Day), and in our neck of the Woods it also means remembering the weather, and all those seedlings you started in frigid March, and how much you're looking forward to that first non-Californian strawberry and tomato of the season.
Here J. and I are preparing the holes for the seedlings. J. likes to volunteer for things. He took over the mix of fertilizer and epsom salts.
I especially like the cute little lettuces around the edge of the box here. We got a mix so we have various colors and shapes.
And here it's done.
The two large plants in the middle are Black Krim and a Aunt Ruby's German Green I bought from Jung's Saturday (along with some lawn seed, a yellow bell pepper, a stars and stripes watermelon, and some strawberry roots).
I saved some seed last year from both plants only to find it had molded because of improper packing on my part, so to Jung's I go.
The rest are Powers Yellow Heirloom (paste), Yellow Pear, Burztyn, and Yellow Lemon (that's a lot of yellow tomatoes!). They were the largest. The rest will be planted in 5gal buckets when they're bigger and the weather is warmer.
I hope you're all enjoying the planting season as much as we are. Later on we were on the deck playing Dominion with friends while the kids got bit up by mosquitoes and whipped each other around until someone finally got hurt.
A happy and peaceful growing season to all of you.
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