I got 24 tomato plants into the ground today, earliest I've had that done in several years. Soil temp was up to 60. It isn't supposed to get below the 50's at night for the rest of the month, hopefully that'll be an accurate forecast.

Rain expected tomorrow and over the weekend, so I figured it was now or a week from now--at best.

Several of the ones that got planted were among the ones with the iron deficiency, they seem to have rebounded well.

Recently some have developed purple leaves, if that's a deficiency I don't know what it is, but planting them in the ground should help remedy it. They're at the 24 hour mark and looking pretty perky.

Last year we lost some of the plants due to some kind of cutworm, I'd come out in the morning and the plants looked like they'd been cut off at ground level. But most of the ones that went in are large enough that I don't think they'll be as susceptible to that.

We decommissioned the Aerogarden last week, the lettuce on both sides had pretty much bolted. But we got about 4 1/2 months of lettuce from it.

We're still cleaning and sanitizing it for the next crop. We need to clean around it, as well, the dill that was in the herb kit went to seed, so we've got a big bag of dill seed for pickling and dill pollen all over the windowsill and floor. I never knew dill put out that much pollen!

We've got some tomato plants that came with the Aerogarden kit, we may try those next, they're bush cherry tomatoes and I didn't plant any of those outdoors. I'm thinking I may start around 6 tomatoes and put some spinach in the other slots on that side, spinach grows faster than tomatoes do, so by the time the tomatoes start blocking the light, the spinach may be pretty much done.

My son has been growing strawberries in one of his Aerogardens, we may try that as well. Might start a lettuce crop again after the farmers market season ends, right now we're kind of lettuced out.

I started a new Aerogarden today, 6 bush cherry tomato plants and 6 spinach. The spinach should be fairly fast growing and doesn't have a long harvest window, so by the time the tomatoes are starting to crowd them out of the light, the spinach should be running out of steam. We're still thinking we may try strawberries in the other garden and possibly start some lettuce some time this fall.

My wife got two eggplants that will go in the garden tomorrow and we found a fairly big rosemary at Costco to replace the one we tried to winter indoors. (We've seldom had one last all winter, usually we forget about it and it runs out of water at some point.)