This weekend has not been as productive as I’d hoped. I did get a few things done here and there, but thanks to a husband who always seemed to have some errand or other to run that couldn’t possibly been done without me, it wasn’t nearly everything I planned.

I did get a little revenge though – because I worked some of this into our errands.

But more on that another day. One of the things I did accomplish was getting my vegetable garden planted up. I planted several types of seeds – peas, beans, baby pumpkins, cucumbers, gourds and zucchini.

And I decided it was time to get my tomatoes out of their snail.

Many of you know the struggles I’ve had with starting tomatoes from seed (I’ve yet to be successful), so you can imagine how pleased I am with these seedlings. Now really, I probably should have put these in individual small pots to grow them on a bit more, but I decided to just throw caution to the wind.

I took the five strongest seedlings and put them directly into the Tomato Tire. It’s really too many tomatoes for the space, so I’ll pull at least three as soon as I see which ones are the strongest.

The rest I out in a large pot, just as a little insurance policy.

Also ready to plant out from its seed snail were the Sugar Baby Watermelon seedlings.

I got four good little seedlings just like this one. They are now firmly planted under the squash ladder which will serve as their trellis for the year.

And where are the squash you ask?

They got moved to one quadrant of the squash tunnel. I didn’t actually plant these little guys. They popped up in the soil where I had the squashes last year – a small one must have rotted away there. But I decided not to waste them as they were lookin pretty good. Hopefully I can win the battle against the squash beetles this year and actually get a squash or two I can eat.

Elsewhere…

I’ve got wee potato sprouts. This year, I’m experimenting a little with the potatoes. Instead of buying “seed potatoes” like I’ve done previously, I just took some small potatoes from my pantry. I put them in a dish on the window sill and let them sprout a little, and planted them in the ground. So far so good!

And the spinach and lettuce are doing beautifully. I’ve been leaving the top off the bed, and I think we may just harvest some of that spinach in the middle to add to our salad one night this week.

It will be nice to have a little treat from the garden so soon…. everything else is going to have to wait a while