Vegetable Garden Progress

I planted tomatoes on Saturday! They'd had two weeks hardening off outside and had gotten quite leggy so into the ground they went.

I also assembled another small grow bed that you see against the fence. I have to fill it and will plant cucumbers there to grow on the fence.
Below is the cherry tomato that I purchased. It's flowering already. I'll tie it onto the fence.

Here are two pots of Rutgers that I'm going to try to train on the fence.

I planted the remaining Rutgers in the garlic bed and will put netting up like I did last year to support them.

Below are the Goldies.

And at the opposite end of the bed are the Amish paste with their cutworm collars and marigolds planted for protection. I planted bush beans in between the two types of tomatoes.

Here is a view of the onions, front right, peas behind on right and lettuce bed on the left back with garlic in the front left bed. You can't see the blueberry bushes along the fence on the right but all except one are showing new growth. I'll need to replace the one that didn't survive the winter.

All in all it was a good day in the garden.

Update on My Reading

I haven't been doing much reading of late since the warmer weather means more time for the garden. I have had some books in my stack for awhile and will likely have to renew them before I've even cracked them open.

Dan did bring home a book for me on Friday called "Younger Next Year for Women". He bought "Younger Next Year" and decided to buy me the companion book. This is an amazing book that really explains the need to exercise and at my age it is a must 6 days a week they say for 45 minutes at a stretch. It needs to be my job now that I'm retired. I've embraced it whole-heartedly and feeling better for it. Look for the book. It's worth the read.

Near Disaster

Recognize that silhouette? Yes, it's a hummingbird and it caught its beak in the screen on the porch, the upper part. It was frantic, beating its wings, calling out trying to extricate itself. I thought at first it was after a bug so I went out on the porch expecting that my presence would send it on its way, but that wasn't the case. I called Dan to come since he was taller, but not tall enough to reach it. He went to the garage for the step ladder and as he carried it to the porch, the hummingbird's last pull of its head brought its beak out and it flew off. I still can't figure how it got caught in the first place.

Harvest Monday on Tuesday and Other News

Harvest last week of a romaine like lettuce - don't know the name as I planted it last fall - and two green onions which all went in to a Caesar salad. Se other harvest at Daphne's Dandelions.

This is that lettuce growing. Anyone recognize it?

Irises are finally blooming.

First columbine is blooming.

I purchased a lot of annuals at Lurgan's in PA near Chambersburg. It's Amish owned. I have lots of pots and hanging planters to fill.

Here are my tomato plants waiting to be planted. I think they are yellowing and I'm aiming to put them in on Thursday.

Onions are so green.

Time to harvest more spinach and the peas are enjoying all the rain.

Lettuce and spinach is doing really well.

Recognize the seedlings below? Tomatoes are germinating from the compost I added to the beds. It must be a sign that's it's time to plant my tomatoes.