Very well, thank you for asking!
This is just a quick update on my garden (check out the photos!). The tomatoes I have left are doing very well. I'm going to need to get them in the ground soon, I only hope the average daily temperature warms up a little in the next week. I'm shooting for a May 1st date of getting them in the ground. Then I have to make the cages for them.
I installed a drip irrigation system in the first bed, it seems to be working very well so far, now I just need to add another mainline and water up the second bed. I only worry, because the second bed has some lettuces in it... I think I'll leave the lettuce section dry and water it as needed, rather than try and get all fancy to keep the lettuces drier.
In the first bed, we have the onions and spinach and radishes we planted earlier, all of which are doing well... the radishes are flourishing. To those we've added yellow squash and pumpkins (sugar pumpkins for more soup next fall and winter) which are doing really well having been transplanted from the seed trays. In the photo to the right, you can see the squash and the radishes are in the background. I've put bird netting over the top, and that seems to have really cut down on leaves disappearing from these tiny plants.
In the second bed, we have the aforementioned lettuces which have really benefitted from the bird netting, as well as some anaheim peppers and a cayenne pepper I've transplanted from the seed tray. I've also planted a row of carrots and a couple of hills of zucchini. I planted the zucchini just before the temperatures dropped again, so I'm hoping they'll bounce back up again soon so the zucchini can germinate. I'm leaving room in that bed for a couple more peppers, another row or two of carrots and the broccoli.
Speaking of broccoli, I just this morning transplanted them from the seed tray to their own rose pots. I have to admit I've never seen broccoli actually growing, so this will be an eye opener for me. I've been really happy with how well the seeds have germinated, and hope to have some real success with this particular vegetable, as nothing beats fresh broccoli... except for maybe fresh carrots... and fresh peas. I can hardly wait for the first salad of the year from our garden.
So far (knock on wood) we've had very little problem with gophers. I have a little sonic annoyer in the ground that seems to be mostly working. However, if the gophers start wreaking havoc, I'm gonna have to go medieval on them and hire professional hitmen to take them out. It wasn't until they ransacked swaths of my garden last year that I understood Bill Murray's character in Caddy Shack. Carl Spackler, I feel your pain.
I've also just started on vermicomposting. The city of Santa Cruz has a subsidy for composting kits and I chose the Worm Factory and a half pound of Red Wrigglers. They seem to be doing well after a week in there. We'll see if they're still kicking after a month.
So, wish me luck on my gardening endeavors. Maybe we'll invite you over to dinner once we start harvesting!