Spring tomatoes have been planted.

In an effort to make my gardening habit more scientific I want to make a note that tomatoes were planted on March 17th 2011. This year I have three plants and two varieties: 2 Celebrity and 1 Early Girl. I planted in the usual way, which is to first soak and saturate the pots in a seaweed and fish emulsion mixture. And I threw a handful of basic organic fertilizer in the hole before planting. I saw plenty of earthworms (of what I believe are the red wiggler type) but I did not dig around as much as normal and did not add as many soil amendments as usual. There is still kale and collard greens in the garden from last fall. Everything else was killed by the cold. This must have been the coldest winter since I have lived here, in the sense that plants that usually survive the winter did not this year. The cilantro was killed, and the confederate jasmine appears to be killed also (although I noticed new growth on it yesterday). Cilantro has survived in the past and had attracted great numbers of ladybugs throughout the spring.

This year's planting date is about the same time as last year's, and last year's crop was very successful. The first tomato last year was harvested on May 17th, and their were about 120 total tomatoes harvested from 4 different plants! (And I'm not counting the cherry tomatoes.)

Update 5.24.2011: First Early Girl tomato harvested.
Update 6.27.2011: Last tomato harvested and the plants are done. 53 total harvested throughout the season.