Why they call it the Garden state

Ok, I'm holding my breath because I planted my tomato plants today. I have chanced this before and it's payed off and I've also gotten burned! I'm hoping for good weather from here out and for the next week weather looks good. I just pray we don't get a frost between now and Mothers day, That's usually the norm for planting around here.
So, here are some pics of my "Brandywine" plants started from seed and they make such wonderful sauce. I've tilled in 4 @ 30 gal barrels of Horse $#!T, some wood stove ash, the remnants of the compost pile, some dead fish carcasses so the ground should have a good amount of nutrients for them. fingers crossed I didn't shoot myself in the foot!

I got my NJ Redneck sprinkler system going for water, it's always worked!
So, I almost can wait for some good NJ Tomatoes!

 

Cool hose holder!!! I had a to use a couple inventive ideas running around my fish hatcher (in my house, poor WWW, the aquariums were EVERYWHERE). I like your watering technique, whatever works!

 

We'll see in a couple weeks if I pulled it off! I trust the good farmers almanac and looked at the long range weather report. Don't forget, I'm right on the coast and the ocean water temperature dictates or nightly air temp mostly. Usually if it's 45º were in the clear for no frost. "I hope"...

 

Great idea on the house holder! Won't be transplanting outside here until June 1st! Keep blankets/ towels handy in case you need to cover em!

 

Trash bags over the cages if they call for frost! It's just enough to get them through the night.

 

We use the sheppards hooks for the bird feeders all winter, then when the bugs and such come out and they have plenty of food, we either use the shepherds hooks for plants or my fancy hose sprinkler.
Once I see black flies and bugs, the birds are on their own. I worked with a guy here at the base who is/was the "president and grand pooba" of the NJ chapter odf the Audubon society and he told me years back, "do not" get the birds dependent on you feeding them, cut them off as soon as you see bugs! This guy goes all over the world looking at birds. He just was in South America last month studying some kind of unseen humming bird. Those you can feed all summer.

 

Yeah, I know it's much later for you folks up in the Northern country. "Usually" we wait till Mothers day weekend but our plants got to big for the seeding pots and with good weather ahead I'm praying.
The south side of the house gets full sun all day and the ground was warm so I'm taking a shot, "Yes" a risk. I did this about 4 years ago when our winter wasn't bad and we had a nice batch or plants and about 40 qt's of sauce for the winter after canning.

 

Oh yeah! Anywhere near Millville North, I wouldn't even consider it!

 

I'll update this thread in a couple weeks with pics, "keep you all in suspense".... I'll either be crying or smiling

 

Ol’ itchy green thumb is on the loose!

 

I thought maybe if we get the "medical marijuana" legal, I'll try my hand at that.... Then again.... NOOOOOOOOOOT ! I got me enough problems with Miller lite!