Tomatoes, Pumpkins, Zucchini, and Sunflowers Transplanted Into Garden

This has been a very busy memorial weekend especially for garden work that had to be completed this past week.  First of all with good weather it was time to begin transplanted the bulk of my plants that were ready to get out of their restricted containers.

I only was able to plant about half of the tomatoes that I grew inside because some of the later seeds that were grown are not ready to be removed from their pots.  I like to wait until the roots of the plant actually reaches the bottom of the pot and they wrap around all the soil.  This makes it easier for the plant to be removed and it will come out in one piece as you can see below.

The four cherry tomatoes that were planted inside are now all out in the garden adjusting to the new soil.  Not all the tomatoes were ready to be placed into the soil yet, but the earlier grown seeds were at the right size and root growth to be put in the soil.  These included the hybrid steakhouse and super sauce tomatoes that were planted earlier in the season.

I was also able to put in a couple of the earlier sunflowers that I had grown in the beginning and they were looking very weak while in their pot.  That is why I decided to place them in the garden the same time as the tomatoes.  They now have plenty of room to spread out their roots and some food that will last them a couple of weeks.

Yesterday I noticed that one of the sets of alyssum plants that I had grown was starting to wilt.  I checked the soil and noticed that it was getting dry.  This is usually a sign that it is time for me to get them into the garden as quickly as possible.  That is exactly what I did.  I had two that had roots covering the entire bottom of the containers and planted them near my tomatoes.

The roots of my alyssum plants.

This is what they look like once they were placed into the garden.

Last but not least today I was able to get all my squash plants into the ground before it started to rain.  This would include the pumpkins and zucchini which grew very fast when planted indoors.  Once they got outside they exploded in growth and were ready to be put in the ground this entire weekend.  I was able to get it done today and they are hopefully enjoying their new home.

Here you can see all the squash plants are now in the ground.

On a side note I also put up nets on the strawberries and blueberry plants to keep birds from eating them.  I will take a picture of them in the next couple of days so you can see what I did to keep birds away from them.  Within the next couple of weeks strawberries will start turning red and they will be ready to be picked.  Below are images of the progress of my strawberries.