The Western NY garden diaries: End of April

The end of April finally. The weather got much better, warmer, with pleasant soft rain yesterday. Nightly temps in low 50's, and the day highs in low 70's. I think it's the best time to enjoy dining al fresco on our patio, there is not much of a bug life yet, not too hot, not humid - I love these days! And we for sure took advantage of this gorgeous weather, spending most of our weekend outside. Magnolia is in bloom, forsythia is just glowing, daffodils, hyacinths, tulips - blooms are everywhere!
Now I should mention my veggies... Eggplants are looking very strong, big, very green with thick short stems. Basil is just beautifully growing, we made Caprese salad the other day using our homegrown basil. I planted two varieties; regular Genovese basil and new for me Lettuce Leaf basil. They are both great, but we think that we will use Genovese for cooking and Lettuce Leaf for eating fresh in salads, it's much more tender, delicate then Genovese basil. But again both are great. Tomato seedling are still kinda slow, well maybe not, but I went to Lowe's just today, took a look at tomato plants for sale - they are so big compare to mine, some even have flowers! I am upset :-) Oh well, I should be patient. It's been 3 weeks exactly since I've seeded them, all of them starting second pair of true leaves, but they are sooooooo tiny! I hope everything will be alright. I just fertilized all of my veggies with fish emulsion ( 2 Tbsp for a gallon of water ), let's see how my babies will like it. Next time I should do it in 3 weeks. So here are the pics from our end-of-April weekend.