My husband rolled out in his wheelchair and planted three tubs with cucumbers and summer squash a few weeks ago. There are small squash and the cukes look great. I have planted twelve tomato plants and have one more to go. I have some pepper plants to get in yet.

He went to our high school FFA greenhouse and got the plants. It was the next to last day of sales so selection was not that great. I looked up the peppers that had two tags and I think they are hot ones. I will give them to a local boy that loves them. That will just leave me with three sweet banana peppers this year.

He bought a pack of five little things that I have no idea what they are. It will be fun to see what develops with them.

The FFA has such nice sturdy plants and we look forward each year to getting them. We got them on 4/26 so I have had to move them outside during warm days a lot and keep them watered.

We've got nearly a dozen flats of plants, flowers as well as vegetables, waiting to be planted if the weather ever cooperates. In the last week we've seen temperatures drop into the low 40's with wind chills in the mid 30's twice and we've had about 4 inches of rain, 1.75 inches of it in the last 15 hours.

Most of my Rosemary survived the winter. I had three small plants indoors as insurance. I gave the youngest away and planted the others in the ground. They were fine living in a pot over the previous summer but weren't thriving over the winter, I think they were root bound.
The Chinese chives were doing great March-April but now many of them are dying. This looks root rot due to the rain and bad drainage. I had a similiar problem two years ago and hope that these will recover eventually. Also the chives are covered with small black insects.
The Amaryllis went outside about three weeks ago and are doing fine so far.

I didn't think it was possible to kill chives. My mother poured the foundation for her rebuilt garage over her chives garden, and they came up at the edge of the garage 2 years later!

We got our first tomato of the season today, a Fourth of July tomato about the size of a ping pong ball, but there are a number of green tomatoes on other plants, some Early Girl and some Romas. With the hot weather, I don't think we'll see many more fruit set the next few weeks, but if we get a cool spell later on like we did two weeks ago I expect we'll get a bunch more to set then. The plants are ready to set fruit, just need the cooler weather to do it.

We had tacos tonight using that tomato, just enough for the two of us.

Some places in central Nebraska, 150 or so miles west of us, got 6-9 inches of rain in a single day earlier this week, lots of flooding, even I-80 was closed for a while. It's just been a really tough season for farmers, it wouldn't surprise me if we get a long hot dry spell now.

Mike, I've grown 4th of July tomato and it was always my first one to be ready. They would usually start to come in around this time for me. It was always a good producer.

This year I decided to go with slicing tomatoes and didn't do any 4th of July size (another good one in that size is Mountain Magic although it comes in a little later). This year I got a late start due to the cold wet weather. I don't have anything to pick yet (except for herbs) but things are looking good so far.

There is my Early Girl Bush hybrid, they claim it gets 18 inches high but mine is a lot higher. You can also see my overcrowded herb garden. I need to thin it out a little.