Hardended or not - we're 100% outside!

Home-made 'topsy-turvy' Tomato planters

Onions - and struggling remaining corn seedlings

Cucumbers

Struggling pea plants - hopefully they'll recover

Broccoli

More Brocolli

Green Beans

Lettuce

I'm not known for being particularly patient - so the whole 'hardening off' process basicly consisted of moving the plants outside 3 evenings, and bringing them back in... before I decided it was warm enough, and the wind had subsided enough to give the plants their breathing room -- which means they're totally outside plants now.

My very dear friend Julie was kind and gracious and gave me MANY planters that I could use last night, and so I spent the evening transplanting as much as I could before I ran out of dirt.... well, almost out of dirty anyway.

I've got 2 tomato plants in my home-made "topsy-turvy" containers (2 liter soda bottles), and I think they will work FABULOUSLY!

The lettuce is all transplanted, the broccoli, 3 of the green bean plants (they each need a 1 gal container) - and 2 of the poor pea plants. I think the excessively long time the peas were inside before they could be transplanted may be their undoing. If they don't show signs of a quick comeback, I may scrap them and replant directly in their final planter. Still need to plant the Ocra for Tim, and decide whether the corn is going to be worth the trouble. It needs such a large container (and a lot of dang dirt), that I'm not sure I'll go down that road this year, considering most of the seedlings have died.

The carrots don't like me (why is it that my FAVORITE vegetable didn't cooperate?)... not sure if they'll be replanted. The cucumber plants are flourishing, so I'm sure we'll have a plethora of them soon.

I also posted to Craig's list looking for free 1 to 3 gallon plastic containers, and got 4-5 great leads - I shouldn't have to buy another container ever.