Late Frost! but I know an easy fix

Well I've lost every single one of my tomatoes that I planted from seeds due to a late frost. I think if I had allowed them to spend more time inside before plunking them into the garden they would have had a much better chance of success. I also did not harden them at all, so there was a bit of shock for the plants anyway.

Never the less I managed to save about 60% of my Bell and Jalapeno peppers and I'm thrilled about that. Yesterday while driving home from work I couldn't resist stopping at the nursery to see if they had some tomatoes, and price some Paving stones for a patio project that's in the back of our minds.

Jalapeno ^











Bell >



I bought six Big Boy tomato plants and three strawberry plants, Camille helped me put the tomatoes in the ground this morning (we are expecting rain tonight) but the strawberries are still on the table. I'm not too sure how or where we are going to plant them, because we plan to completely redesign the garden area before next year and we don't want to just have them coming up where ever they want in the yard.

You can see I put twigs around my Tomatoes to help shelter these little plants from the rain and wind of the upcoming storms.

So that's the update and the lesson is; Harden your plants and make sure they are mature enough to handle the elements before you sacrifice them to ignorance.

In the foreground of this picture of my garden you can see my potato cages, I don't know how this is going to work out, but I'm hoping to grow only a few Russets and Reds. More importantly, however is my helper in the back of the picture she's making sure I get some good shots for the blog.

I took a few pictures today just to give updates on things, the front flower bed is starting to show signs of life!


The grass I sewed is coming up in all kinds of random areas, just not around the patio where we really wanted it to.
Thanks for reading along I'll be sure to update again if anything comes up.