sunning seedlings
Such a nice day, my seedlings were sunning outside. It was near 60*F on our sunny patio. Still a foot of snow, but melting fast. My onion seedlings are growing and the celeriac have sprouted. My 6 year old onion seeds still haven’t come up. Last year they eventually sprouted, so I’m giving them more time.
sweet potato sprouts
I count about 17 sprouts coming along. Some really small still. Last year I planted about 30, but they were too close. So about 20 should be good this year.
2014 planting list
January (inside under lights) Sweet Potatoes February 8 (inside under lights) Onion, Frontier Onion, Pontiac Onion, Walla Walla Sweet Onion, White Wing Shallot, Prisma Celeriac March 8 (inside under lights) (Note: Many of these I mixed together to get more variety of fewer plants.) Parsley, Single Italian Pepper, Canary Bell (note: peppers need to be 75*F+ to germinate) Pepper, Sweet Yellow Chili, Thai Hot Chili, mix of Tepin, Jalpeno, Anaheim Broccoli, Romanesco Broccoli, Cook’s Super Blend Hybrid Broccoli, Diplomat Eggplant, Kamo Eggplant, Calliope F1 Escarole, Broadleaf Batavian Escarole, Natacha Endive,…
the onions are sown!
I planted a whole tray of onion seeds today. Its exciting to have extra planting space to be planting for this year! The varieties I planted are on my 2014 planting list.
seed starting pots – fresh out of the dishwasher
My aging collection of seed trays and pots is clean again and ready to go. A bit warped, but functional. They all went through the dishwasher this morning. I even found an empty white milk bottle in our recycling bin to cut up for labels. I’m ready to plant!
a good time to start planting seeds
Now that the sweet potatoes are planted, I think it a good time to start planting some onion seeds. Its only 2 weeks early. My husband found my bags of potting soil in the shed over the weekend and they are thawed out by now. I still need to find the seed trays I saved and run them through the dishwasher. Then I need to locate some labels. If I can’t find some little wooden ones from last year, there’s usually something plastic in the recycling bin that I can…
potting up sprouted sweet potatoes
I have lots of little sprouts on my sweet potatoes so today I potted them up in soil. My first pot under the seed lights! I’m saving those big plastic lettuce and spinach containers for potting this year. They are a nice size.
plant shelves are up!
Today I assembled the lights for my seedling shelves. I searched and found the light holders in the shed, hung them on the shelves and added 4 new plant lights. To start the process, I put my little sweet potato sprouts on one of the shelves. My first sowing should be mid-February – 2 more weeks – when I plant my onion seeds. Don’t know if I’ll be able to wait that long….
sweet potato sprouts
About 5 or 6 of my little sweet potatoes have sprouted now. They’re in a pan with a little moisture, partially covered with plastic, in a warm spot.
This is a journal of my vegetable gardens. Skippy thinks the garden is his, even though I do all the work. We're located near Boston, in USDA zone 6. I have bees, chickens, fruit trees and berry bushes, too. I use all sustainable organic methods and strive to grow all of my family's vegetables myself. -Kathy
weeks and counting until my last spring frost
My garden this week
Skippy’s vegetable of the month – Egyptian walking onions!
