Last night I came down with a fever and today I took the day off of work because I feel like total crap. But I figured that I would take a few minutes to upload the photos that I took over the weekend. They are all in the 2008->April gallery.

Most of my seedlings are getting really big. I spent a few hours over the weekend transplanting them into larger pots. Some of the tomato plants are getting quite large and will be ready to go outside soon. I'm thinking around the first week of May will be good to put things out. The weather is really warm and at night the lows are about 50, so I think the danger of frost has passed. Go global warming! Hehe.

I'm in the process of hardening off my cabbage plants that I started indoors. The ones that I planted outside directly are just starting to come up. So are most of the other things that I planted outside: shallots, spinach, snow peas, lettuce, and bok choi. No sign from the potatoes yet, but I think they took a few weeks last year before they popped their heads up.

The stuff in planters is doing great as well. Both artichokes (the one in the planter and the other that I just moved to the side of the yard) seem to have survive transplanting. Actually they didn't wilt or seem to go into shock at all. The strawberries that I have in a planter as well are starting to get some flowers. The lettuce is doing great too - I should be able to have a salad from them by next week. Yum!

In the front yard, most things are doing great. Unfortunately so is the gout weed. I think that either later in the summer or next year I'll need to rip up the front yard and put down weed block to try to stop it. It gets worse and worse each year no matter how much I try to pull it out.

I'll take some more pictures again this weekend, probably the last for April.