The transplants are in. After a year of basically not gardening, I have forgotten how dirty and hard gardening is…and how wonderful. I’ve got four rows planted in my garden and about that same amount to still plant.

Here are the finished transplanted, featured here, here and here:

They were a bit crowded and needed more fertilizer at the end, but not too bad overall. I hardened them off over a period of five days, and planted them on a rainy, cloudy day. I was lucky that the weather cooperated pretty well.

And here is my garden right now:

Right now I have snap peas, cabbage, swish chard, various lettuce and greens, walla-walla and red onions, Yukon gold and red potatoes, banana peppers, ichiban eggplant, and roma, fourth of July, Cherokee purple and yellow pear tomatoes. I still have twice as much area to plant, most of which will be vining crops.

I’ve also been compulsively picking dyer’s woad from neighbor’s yards and cracks in the sidewalk. Although it is beautiful in bloom…it is a horrible noxious weed and it is everywhere up here. My own garden is full of bindweed. Even the plastic mulch I have down won’t kill that stuff.

Okay, enough of an update. Hope you weren’t bored.