1) What are you using for the seed potatoes?
I maintain a planting diary that is fairly up to date with the latest information about the garden. If you check the diary you’ll see that I planted Red Cloud potatoes and Kennebec. The Red Cloud’s I got from Moose Tubers (a Fedco company) and the Kennebec from Barn Owl and Feed (a local garden/farm/feed store)
2) Did you get the tomatoes in the ground? If you did, what are you doing for them now that it’s snowing out?
I did. My seed tomatoes I killed due to lack of attention on my part. So I went to a big box store and picked up some seedlings while I grow some more in the garage. When there is a threat of a late frost (like tonight) and my cold frame isn’t available, I use plastic in a makeshift cold frame style. Here’s a picture from this evening. The tall plastic is my tomatoes already staked and ready to grow. The smaller rectangle is the herbs, cabbage, garlic and another tomatoe.
3) I noticed in your gallery that you have a solar panel set up. I’m curious to know how you are using it.
I don’t have that system anymore. When I lived in KY I was the Emergency Management coordinator for the Amateur Radio operators in the county. Because of that, and because it was fun to build, I designed and built a fully off the grid power station for my amateur radio and weather station equipment in my basement. I could technically run forever without power. I kept a parts list if you want to try and do something like it yourself. Here’s the flickr set with wiring diagram and photos. I also participated in the Alternative Energy Associate (AEA) of Cincinnati. You can see a tour of my rain barrel setup and solar dog house on their website.
4) What is that tent in your image gallery. You never posted about it!
Sorry about that! My wife and I are going backpacking in July and I wanted an ultra light tent. I did a bunch of research and decided on the RainShadow 2 from TarpTent. I had it up a week or two back to seam seal it and get some practice putting it up. The tent is not a traditional tent, in that it is not completely enclosed. It’s basically a tarp (see name of company) with a sewn in floor separated by bug netting. It makes the tent only 46oz instead of somewhere around 100oz for a traditional 2 person tent (50% weight saving).
tyler – i can’t seem to see the pictures in this post and i was particularly interested in how you covered your tomatoes. I just draped plastic over mine i hope they’ll be ok.
so now I have a question. did people in KY think you were a freakazoid with all your magic solar panels and rain barrels? I’m from the south and you don’t see too much of that stuff around there.
Here’s the link to the flickr image of the frost protection tonight…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/allisonhouse/2450090893/in/set-72157604509109041/
We’ll see if it works. Temperature is slowly falling with lowest temp forecasted for around 1am.
As for being a freakazoid…hahahah
The only thing that stops me from being more weird is the lack of financing 
Blurg this cold weather!
I got an email stating that my plants will arrive TOMORROW! (4/30). It set me in a tail spin of too soon, too soon, too soon!
I’ve been checking the weather daily and this weekend looks lousy too. The tomatoes should be fine inside, but I would like to get some of the hardier flowers out in the yard.
Oh, the joy and the stress!
The forecasts are showing a heating trend for the rest of the week so the odds of another frost are _extremely_ low. Historical records show we are well beyond the 90% probability of last frost has already happened. And every day makes the probability even higher. I’m calling yesterday (Apr 28th) as the last frost of the season. Assuming it’s not too muddy it should be safe to put the plants out this weekend.
OK, I’m going to go with your recommendation on putting stuff in this weekend!