Spring Planting April 16-17

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This afternoon, Charlene announced, "I'm going to Green Thumb Nursery, wanna go?".  I ask what she was after and she replied, "Tomatoes".  Huh?  I told her that I didn't want to plant until the first of May.  After 3 planting seasons with the greenhouse, I've figured out I need warmth and sunlight.  From February on, I've planted tomatoes but the best crop was planted in May.  Charlene has just worked two twelve-hour shifts, back to back.  She wants to play in the garden now and she's going to the nursery whether I do or don't.  We don't often go to Green Thumb so it's always a fun place to go.  Yea, I'll go!.  It's a great nursery with an extremely knowledgeable and friendly staff.  Great plants, too.  I pass a giant 'preview' display of peppers and tomatoes.  The peppers catch my eye.  Not the hot pepper kind, rather the big, green/red bell peppers.  There are a gob of different kinds here.  I can plant these this weekend with no worries.  I keep grabbing more pepper plants.  I end up with 9 pepper plants, more than I need but, too late, they're in the little red wagon I'm pulling through the isles (instead of a baskart).  I'm now the proud owner of

 

I moved on down the display, casually eye-ing the tomatoes.  Not yet, not until May.   Charlene and I are wandering the numerous isles of a bizillion plants.  Flowers and vegetables, trees and bushes, tropical and desert and on and on.  I come to the tomato isle where Charlene is looking and notice Green Thumb has the latest hybrids, the old standbys, early maturity, late maturity and Old Fashion Heirlooms.  I couldn't take it any longer, I plunged in and filled up the red wagon with tomato plants.  Here's the ones I got for the greenhouse:

This one is an Heirloom called Mortgage Lifter.  Full maturity, very big, juicy tomatoes

Here are two plants Charlene got for the planters away from the greenhouse:

We both saw the corn.  We both knew we had to have it.  2-6 packs of yellow corn and one 6 pack of white sweet corn:

I scrubbed the greenhouse, inside and out with soapy water and bleach, including the roof.  A thorough rinsing and it's ready to go for another season. 

 

Just around the corner in this picture is our 'Iris' patch.  Charlene planted many colors but only this one comes up. There's some kind of weed that looks like (in Ohio) a fine fescue grass so the first photo is called "Iris with Weeds" and the other is called "Other Iris with Weeds".  

I'll try and keep you all updated on the progress.