Hi greeneyes and everyone! Checking in late!
Rainy and cold today.
All of my ordered seeds have arrived. I still have a couple of live plants ordered which I’m waiting on from Burpee.
I sprouted some of my seeds, including the Tbone squash! Other sprouts are flax, Atkins Tomatoes, cucumbers, sweet peas, and a couple of green bean varieties among others. They really need to get their little toes into some dirt cups, but I’ve been buried under some other projects. *sigh*
As per last year, I have tried sprouting parsley seeds, but they have not responded yet. So, even if I wanted to have parsley sprouts for sandwiches, not happening! It is still too early to tell whether my parsley plant survived the last freeze. I’m thinking it didn’t.
Darlin is suggesting that I concentrate in my experiments on some root veggies this season because I am truly clueless about most of them. As you know I’ve been working with walking onions and a grocery store eating onion. Darlin and I saw some onion sets which are beginning to sprout in a bin at the grocery store, so we bought a few of those to also play with. I have some Asian radishes and some short carrots I want to try this season. Perhaps some beats as well.
I saw a friend at the grocery store who sells pecans from her nut crop each year and she assured me I’m not too late this year to fertilize our trees.
I reported last week, I think, that we obtained 3 tomato plants from Lowes. 2 are heirloom, and another is a hybrid Darlin likes. We are excited because they are preparing to bloom! We have not planted them because we are still bringing them in at night, as the temps are dangerously close to freezing.
Happy gardening to all!
TEXOKIE, Glad to hear from you where you are with gardening so far.
I’ve got seedlings up in 21 cups under the grow lamp and that means more than 21 containers because there are several plants in each cup. I don’t have that many containers left. I need some more 3 gallon nursery type black pots as they are cheapest and I think will be large enough for what’s growing but that isn’t exactly right since there are a number of tomatoes. Have to rethink pots. I have some big enough for tomato plants but I don’t remember where I got them - maybe the Mega Garden store. They evidently weren’t terribly expensive because I have a lot of those. Need to look at my orders on computer and see where I got those pots.
I only have one more really big bag of potting soil mix and that isn’t enough so I’ll have to buy smaller bags I can carry this time.
It is overcast again today so no sun. I need sun for all those plants outside now.
JRandomFreeper is supposed to get internet today so I expect him to be all over this thread before the day is over. :o)
Glad you checked in. I was thinking about you last night, and wondering how things were weather & garden wise at your house.