Flowers!

It's been dreary, cold, and rainy for a while but today it's sunny and somewhat warm. Since the tomatoes and cucumbers need to be hardened off so they can go out permanently soon I decided to put them out today despite the slight chill. When I went to take them down, I  noticed this:

I really hope it warms up and stays warm soon, now that there are flowers on my cucumbers they really need to stay outside. I'll probably start training them up a trellis soon. Here are a few more pics:

Note the tiny pea pod down at the bottom there.

 I'm going to need new stakes for the tomatoes. I'll probably pick some up when I get more dirt to transplant them.

 I wish this spinach would hurry up and grow already because I want to eat it. It's probably a bit crowded in here, next time I plant it I'll probably do it in rows.

In other news, I baked an awesome loaf of bread today. It's a shame I'm not off work so I could enjoy the rest of this quite beautiful day. Trevor is going to a Bucks game tonight and Thursday after work we're going to Illinois to visit friends and go to a Porcupine Tree concert. My parents might also be visiting soon. Oh! And I ordered my wedding dress. There's still so much to do for the wedding and it's creeping up on us. August really isn't too far away, and then I'll be a married woman. :) Until next time.

Progress!

Well I was going to update this last week but something was up with the site and I was unable to post. I took some pictures:

Those are the cucumbers, spinach, older peas, new peas, and compost bucket. Those were like a week or so ago. Here's what's cool (Apologies for blurry images, cell phone cam wasn't focusing well):

Those were taken just now. The peas are budding, the spinach sprouts have their first true leaves, the cucumbers appear to be budding (!) and the new peas and tomato plants are growing pretty darn well. Can't wait until those pea flowers bloom. I should have my first produce of the year in a few weeks if all goes well. Once it's warm enough I'll be planting more pole beans out there too. It's a shame that tree blocks all the sunlight; there are leaves already on it and as soon as they're big I won't be getting nearly this much sun. If those cucumbers are actually starting to get flower buds on them I don't even know what to think. They might just be side-shoots though, in which case I'm going to have to get my prune on pretty soon.

Oh yes, how about some recommended reading while I'm at it? Do you like pork? Bacon? Ham? I bet you do. Do you buy the cheap commercial pork at the grocery store instead of off a small family farm? I bet you do (so did I until now). Read Righteous Porkchop and I bet you won't any longer, unless you like the idea of Smithfield confining mother pigs in a cage they can't even turn around in with metal bars separating them from their own piglets or manure lagoons which are kept from spilling over (sometimes) by using what basically amounts to a shit-cannon to rocket untreated, liquefied pig manure into local waterways. Yeah, it really is that bad. I'm not done with the book yet but it's such a fantastic read and will open your eyes the same way Food, Inc. did (you did see Food, Inc. right?) So please, find this book and read it: