The yellow pear tomatoes have come up, so now every peat pot has at least one seedling. Some plants, particularly the lettuce and the cauliflower, are getting kind of lanky, so tonight we moved the hydra lamp upstairs to give the seedlings some additional light (using CFLs). Here are the early girl tomatoes from a few days ago, where you can see their fuzzy stems (captured so artfully by Mike):

Last weekend we trimmed back the ivy on the deck and started snow peas, lettuce and spinach outside in containers. Nothing has sprouted yet, and today we found some cat sized digging in the container with the peas. We are waiting to see if the cat got to the half of the pot that we planted or kindly did its business in the empty half that is waiting for a second round of peas.

As we were clearing out dead brush from last year, Mike found some wild onions. Or if not wild, they are at least fending for themselves at this point, amid ivy no less, though my trusty plant guide lists several species of wild onions in this region. Sunday was really quite a nice day to be outside, and I took some pictures of the purple dead-nettle blooming across the street: