Northern Zone Pushers: watcha doing?

[jakebb]

I planted out most of my older tomato plants yesterday and watered them in. They were about 10 days late getting in, and in retrospect I could have planted them Sunday/Monday but I've been too busy. The weather here has been perfect for the tomatoes, with daily highs for the most part in the 70s and nighttime lows in the 50s.

I have some plants I haven't transplanted yet. There are the two brandy boy's and two black krim's which I cut off at the base and re-potted a while ago. They are looking great, actually better than the others, but that might have been because they escaped getting sunburned. I have 4 sungold plants which I started later than everything else. They look very healthy and they've already started to develop tiny suckers even though they are smaller than the older plants which have only just started to do so themselves.

I have 6 early girls which I bought in a six cell flat about a week ago. I potted them up to Styrofoam cups and they have been doing great, they are much better looking and healthier than when I bought them. One of them actually has two growing points. I'm not sure how that happened but I remember it looked very odd and stunted when I potted it up. I wasn't sure if it was going to grow at all and considered throwing it away, but I'm sure glad I didn't; it's a very healthy looking plant now.

I planted out my 8 early jalapeno plants on May 9th, and the two days following that were rainy, windy, and cool/cold. They looked to be dead, but I still covered them with buckets the two nights that it frosted here. I had given up hope and I was about to dig them up and replace them with 4 jalapeno plants I bought at the local lawn and garden store when I noticed little leaves growing all over their stems. I checked all of them, and yep, they all have them. Hurray! Looks like I'm going to be having a lot of jalapenos now.

[CrazyAboutOrchids]

All mine went in the ground on the 15th for my zone 6 CT garden. I only have a small garden and bought TunL covers this year just in case.

My tomatoes were started in my laundry room, went to the basement where they grow under lights in cool conditions - about 55 - 60. I partially hardened them off, then planted them out on an overcast, but dry, day. I used the TunL covers to finish off the hardening off process.

I am covering them up at night anytime I see the temps nearing or below 50. I also covered them the first few times it rained, but they were on their own with the rain these past 2 days.

My tomatoes, so far, are the best I've ever grown. I am using Urban Farm Fertilizers and I am very impressed!

[falconblack]

Putting mine in garden tomorrow....Finally

[Labradors2]

Got mine in yesterday - phew! I am exhausted!

Linda

[bower]

Mine went in on the 10th-12th May, I pushed all the tubs together so I could cover with row cover as the first five nights were below 50 F. Just moved them to permanent positions couple of days ago. Only a few stragglers haven't flowered yet. First fruits have set on Pervaya Lyubov, Indian Stripe PL {way earlier than ISRL last year!} and Purple Bumblebee!

My cpu died 2 weeks ago and this machine has keyboard/mouse defects a nd must be returned so can't post pix, yet.

[SharonRossy]

Still waiting to plant. Hopefully this week even though I've been advised to wait another week. My plants have been out for at least a week. They need to get planted so I can relax for a minute! Bower, I'm just growing IS for the first, it's RL. Seems to be a bit of a slow starter for me at this point. I'm looking forward to growing it.

[KarenO]

Mine will be planted this week warm and cloudy with showers forecast so great planting weather here. Looking forward to clearing out the greenhouse. The plants are strong and large and I am quite pleased so far this season. Hoping for a smooth transition to the great outdoors.
Karen

[ddsack]

Today I planted the 42 tomato plants in that fit in my front garden beds, tomorrow I will start work on the 60 or so that go in the woods garden, then work on the leftovers for pots, and in-ground peppers. We hit 90 degrees yesterday, and today was around 85. Hot and dry wind, any showers miss us. We missed a normal spring again this year, went from highs in the 40/50's with freezing at night directly to July type weather. It's great for the tomatoes and peppers, but tough sweaty work for a slow moving gardener. Early morning, or after 4PM is the only time I can stand to work in full sun right now. All my plants are hardened off, but cups need watering at least twice a day in this sun and wind. Where are those lovely low to mid 70's ? Might as well forget about spinach for this year. And my back has started to bother me more when doing repetitive crouching and digging, so I have to lay flat on the grass about every half hour and do some stretches. Good news is, it will cool slightly next week, by then I should be done with the veggie gardens and can work on my sadly neglected very weedy flower beds.

[Father'sDaughter]

Dwarfs, peppers and eggplants are going out today, whether they like it or not!

Then the only things left in the mini greenhouses will be basil, cukes, zukes and squash. We have a few nights coming up where temps will briefly dip down below 50, so I'll give them one more week before they get evicted.

[Lindalana]

we are good here. Tomatoes are busting up with last week warm weather. Have first green tomato forming. Removing WOW slowly as plants are too tall now.

[salix]

Onions, peas, cabbage, broccoli and cauliflower are planted out - nights are still a bit too iffy for anything tender. Will be moving forward slowly with the rest of the veggies, probably cukes, squash, peppers, and tomatoes will be in at the end of the month, depending on long range forecast.

[tnpeppers]

I have decided to 'plant by moon' this year...the light moon cycle starts on the 28th, so I have been prepping containers and such while I wait. Good thing...many have planted already, and today it is miserable in New Hampshire...fifty miles inland, but winds off the ocean have temps falling back into the low 50's with low clouds and steady 20-25 MPH winds...ick. Temps heading for the upper 30's tomorrow night. A nasty and unusual north-south hailstorm ruined a number of gardens in NH on Sunday. Waiting for the moon may have saved me a LOT of grief.

[Sharpcheddar]

I thought I'd killed my tomatoes a few weeks ago, but I saved 12 of the 16, and finally got the correct kind of grow lights and they've taken off like rockets now! I'll be planting out next week! I know it's later than usual, but I was out of town and my work schedule won't allow me to until then but oh well!

[taboule]

I got very busy this past weekend putting more in the ground, missed to do my walk and talk to them real close.

Today after work, I took a round. Not sure this one is the first, but the biggest -Black Krim, multi-x-fuse.

[taboule]

Bloody Butcher. One on left is a perfect sphere, 1/2" across.