Wow, its been a while!

I had no idea I abandoned my blog for nearly 2 months! I typically have a lot of irons in the fire, and they caught up to me I guess!

Things are in full swing...I have peas in the ground, er, container, as well as scallions, onions for the fall, and the garlic. I have a strawberry ripening and I hope I get it before the pigeons do. My mints and herbs are now outdoor 24/7. I need to split the mints up actually since they are a year old now.

Lots of seedlings:

Rutgers tomato
Jersey Giant tomato
Sungold cherry tomato
Sweet 100 cherry tomato

The Lemondrop cherry tomatoes refused to sprout :(

I have sweet bell peppers, Chinese 5 color hot peppers, cucumbers, beets, head lettuce and mesculun, and the zuchinni are sprouting. I think my watermelons are as well. I'm set to start my last major plants this week. The other goal for this week are to get the cukes hardened off and into their permanent planter.

It finally began to behave like spring here in the past week (though today is cold and damp, but the spring flowers are all out now, and the grass is green so it LOOKS like spring) and this has considerably lightened my mood. I've been moving my planters about on the roof to get them into their final configuration. I am eager to put up my tiki lights and get my roof looking like a sanctuary. I think I want to get some lantern type things to put into the big planters and have a cookout as soon as it warms up.

The local farmers markets are not quite ready to open up yet, an I am starting to compile my list of the local ones. I think I have a little more legwork to do this year since a lot of the information on LocalHarvest.org is out of date. Hopefully I'll get to this in the next week and I'll post my findings here.