Planting strawberries

To finish the strawberry bed project detailed in the previous posting, I planted strawberry plants in the new raised bed today.  We used a variety of strawberry named "Albion" which is an everbearing strawberry with disease resistance to verticillium wilt, phytophtora crown rot, and resistance to anthracnose crown rot.  And they taste great!
The first photo shows the planting process, and the second shows the completed planting.  I dig a hole with a trowel, put liquid fertilizer in the hole (we use Maxsea, a seaweed based fertilizer), and place the plant roots in the hole, and cover them up.  We should have edible strawberries in late May onward.  Click on the photos to enlarge them.

Transplanting into the garden

Today was the day I transplanted seeds I had started on Feb. 6th into the garden.  It has been a wild day or two of weather - cold, showery, with some small hail several times during the day.  The transplants had spent the last two days outside near the greenhouse in order to harden off, but I wish they had an easier time of it.  Several leaves were damaged by the wind and hail, but I am hoping the transplanting will help them.  Here are the pictures of the three or four types of lettuce, the 4 different kales, and the 4 different broccolis I transplanted.  Click pictures to enlarge.

Some transplants

Transplanting broccoli

Watering in with Maxsea

The transplants