today’s planting list
Heliotrope, Marine (1 pot)Lettuce, Prizehead (4-pack)Broccoli, Calabrese (4-pack)Broccoli, Marathon F1 (4-pack)Eggplant, Orient Express F1 (4-pack) 2009 sow-what-and-when
sprout photos
I was very happy to spot five or six TINY celeriac sprouts today. Still only one lavender sprout. Onions are getting tall. And the thyme looks good. Today’s seed planting list:Onion, Ailsa Craig Exhibition (1 pot)Onion, Purplette (1 pot)Onion, Frontier (1 pot) (Tuesday note: two more celeriac sprouts! another lavender! and lots of marigolds today…)
today’s sowing list
Pepper, Amelia’s Cayenne (6-pack)Pepper, Thai hot (6-pack)Pepper, Poblano (6-pack)Pepper, Nardello sweet (6-pack)Pepper, Costa Rican sweet (6-pack)Pepper, Quadrato Rosso D’Asti sweet red (6-pack)Pepper, Quadrato Giallo D’Asti sweet yellow (6-pack)Beets, Chiogga (6-pack)Marigold, FireballMarigold, Petit mix (4 pots)Cosmos, sulphureus orange (4 pots)Butterfly flower, asclepias tuberosa (4 pots)Parsley, flat leaved Italian (8 pots)Basil, Nufar (8 pots) It feels good to be planting again! I put the newly seeded peppers under my fish tank (78*F) to keep them warm until they sprout. The others are all on my plant shelves. I have lots of little…
seedlings – onions, thyme and tomatoes
My onions are doing well. Also early tomatoes and tiny little thyme. So far, no lavender or celeriac sprouts. I’ll keep watching.
my first tomato seedling
Psychedelic celebration… This is a New Girl tomato seedling planted 10 weeks before the last frost in my garden. That’s 4 weeks early. I have 9 very early tomatoes that sprouted this week. I can almost taste sweet red early tomatoes! tomatoes (Solanum lycopersicum)
real onions sprouts and more sowing
My onions finally sprouted. It took 8-9 days. Of the 3 varieties I planted, I have low germination of one (red), none in another (White Portugal), and good germination of the third (Sweet Yellow Spanish). Pretty little sprouts. So brave and bright! Today I planted seeds for lavender, thyme and celeriac. These are supposed to be started 8-10 weeks before frost. I also started 4 pots of tomato plants – very early, just to see if I can get a very early tomato. These will need to be transplanted to…
my first seedling
A seedling has sprouted! I’m so excited. I got out my macro lens and photographed it from every angle. My tray label says Rossa Lunga di Firenze onions. Hmmm. After cropping a few of the photos, it occurred to me that somethings is odd here. What do you think – a stray radish seed? In any case, its still my first seedling of the year. Yippee. While I was at it, I took a few macro photos of Skippy. At least I think that’s him under all that winter fur….
first seeds sown
Right on schedule, my onions are sown: one flat each of white, yellow and red onions. 11 weeks before my last frost date – April 30.
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!
