Transplanted Last of Tomatoes, Two Eggplants, and Five Pepper Plants

I had ten more tomatoes that were still in pots and continuing to grow, but starting to look like they were becoming pot bound.  This is something to avoid when growing indoors and since they had grown as far as they could in the containers I thought it would be best to place them in the garden right away.

I have over twenty tomato plants that are either steakhouse, Roma, or cherry tomatoes.  I should have more of the super sauce Roma plants than any of the others because I planted all 25 seeds that came in the packet and only a few of steakhouse and cherry.  Hopefully more sauce to be made this season.

Here you can see how the roots had reached the bottom of the container and had no more room to grow.

This is what it looked like when I removed the plant from the container.

The good news is that it made it much easier to plant these tomatoes into the soil.  Once I placed it in the ground the water will break loose the roots and it will begin to start growing in all directions.

The first set of tomatoes that were transplanted to the garden are starting to produce flowers.  Now these might start getting tomatoes, but then again might not.  It all depends if they are pollinated.   I should start seeing small tomatoes very soon especially on the first set of transplanted tomatoes.

Eggplant was transplanted as well a couple of days ago.  I have a few plants still growing in pots, but the earliest ones I wanted to get into the garden right away.  The roots had gone as far as they could and needed some space to continue to grow.

Pepper plants were also on my list of transplants because these were lucky to be in peat pots because they wouldn’t get pot bound that easily.  The roots could easily go through the material that these pots are made out of.  Even though I didn’t have to worry about that they still needed to be transplanted to continue growing.

So far the garden is growing quite well and it is soon time to pick some lettuce.  My ruby glow hybrid is not quite ready but the iceberg lettuce that I planted this season is just about ready to pick.  I could pick some today, but I think I will wait until this weekend to start cutting leaves off.

That’s the great thing about lettuce is that you can wait until it is completely done growing and remove it from the soil, or you can cut leaves off as they keep growing.  I like doing the latter which is the same exact way I deal with spinach and other leafy plants.

Below is the progress of my ruby glow hybrid lettuce.

Strawberries are also coming along and some are starting to turn red and ready to eat.  Only the early ones are beginning to turn, but in a few weeks I should be getting a good harvest.

I also got most of my flowers into the garden and all I have left is some late sprouting plants such as lettuce, eggplant, and peppers.  The only flowers left to transplant include calendula, statice, and amaranthus.  These flowers I will put into the garden this afternoon.