Planting tomatoes

Pretty sure our frost days are over for the spring. I planted 20 tomatoes this afternoon, along with some little basils and marigolds :)

Have sweet 100s, romas, Cherokee, Brandywine, and the colorful Black Sea Man.

First lettuce

Cosmo lettuce and my favorite, drunken woman lettuce (with red spots).

Peas Pleeze!

Here's what the pea plants looked like at the end of April:

Now they're more than twice as high. I have the usual sugar snap and snow peas. I'm also trying shelling peas this year.
Had the first pea blossoms bloom on the snow peas on May 5:

Building a new garden

I moved to a new house last summer! So I've almost finished building a terraced garden.
It's next to the shed. I figure the closer to the house, the better. The deer are a little less hesitant to come near the buildings.

Using regular landscaping logs and rebar rods.

The soil is a hard clay with, um, a LOT of rocks. Spent a large amount of time hacking rocks with a pickaxe. Added about 2 inches of compost across the garden. I wasn't sure the water pressure from the one spigot on the house would be high enough to push water up the hill, but is seems to be working fine:

The highest terrace is still not finished, but I started putting some plants in the lower levels anyway.

I'm trying Michihili cabbage this year (in the picture above). It's growing really well in pots on the porch and in the garden.