Here are this year's seedlings.  I learned a few lessons from last year's garden:

1) Only one cherry tomato plant (last year, they choked out everything else except the carrots, and I'm the only one who eats them in the family...)

2) transplant them from the peat pellets much sooner.

Last year, I started seeds in the little peat pellets 8 or 10 weeks before our last frost date, and they were pretty bedraggled by the time I planted them in the garden.  This year, I put the peat pellets in pots 3 1/2 weeks after planting them, and already the roots were emerging from the pellets.  In the bigger pots, they won't need to be watered quite as often (I was watering them 3-4 times a day).  Plus, this way they're much more attractive on the table.

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