A mostly good beginning

Today I decided to take the chance and plant my tomato plants.  The big one in the foreground is from Sell's greenhouse.  They always have huge plants available.  This one has several nice green cherry tomatoes almost fully grown now.  before the end of this month I will be eating ripe tomatoes.  :)

See the bamboo teepees?  I am using them this year along with sisal twine for trellises.

I also planted 4 romas and one beefsteak type.  There is a space saved for another variety of roma.  There will also be a tomatillo planted somewhere in there. 

This is a general view of the strawberry patch in the foreground, sage and horehound in the middle and the red potatoes covered by old hay.  The potatoes are about a foot high now.  I planted them very early when we had the unseasonably warm weather on March.  I will have to remember to harvest some horehound tomorrow.  Maybe some sage too.

Between the potatoes and fence in the back is where the rhubarb will live.  

Speaking of rhubarb, this shows the placement of 3 of the 4 I put out today.  The order I  received should have had 6 but there were only 4 and I believe one is dead but I put it out anyhow in the hopes that it is still dormant.  The others had a little bud on new growth though so I am not hopeful that the one will live.  Oh well, they will grow fast.  They went into a spot that has a lot of nice organic matter in the soil.  Can't wait for next year's garden.  I will also have blueberries and red raspberries next year.

Here is my second planting of strawberries.  They look really good, there is new growth, they seem to have taken to their new home very well.  They are day neutral so I need to pick any flowers off until the first part of July, then I can let them produce berries.  They will probably be small but will be sooooo much better than store bought.  Oh Yeah!

I don't have a picture of it but a few of my red raspberry sticks that I planted have some tiny new buds on them  Yayyyyy

The lilac bush that I planted by the shed is beginning to be covered with a lot of new leaf buds.  Next year there will be a few posies on it. 

Oh I almost forgot.  The carrots are NOT coming up :((  I think they were planted too deep.  Who did that?  LOL   "sigh"  I will have to replant that entire patch......argh

There are some beets coming up as well as some spinach.