What did you do in the garden today?

[hosspak]

Waiting and waiting......

Almost all of the pod planted seeds are emerging......

The seeds started in soil (not pods) very slow....

 

[StupidBird]

Hosspak, what labeling do you use on seedlings that survives transplanting and such?

While everyone else in Atlanta was out stripping the shelves of milk, bread, propane and DVD rentals, I bought a very large bag of potting soil, half that size in perlite. While everyone is sleeping all day tomorrow in the ice holiday, I'll be setting up the first round of seedlings. Tomatoes, peppers, lettuces, and more.

Wrote up the nearly last draft to the plan. Which never survives the first month of real spring. Must be nice in CA not to worry about where the seedlings will be warm enough, (since the garage is too cold this year. At least this week). My dear brother called from Miami...got down to 80F, might need a long sleeve shirt tonight.

 

[hosspak]

Hosspak, what labeling do you use on seedlings that survives transplanting and such?

I just drew out plots on graph paper and labeled each pod and each mini pot. I'm hoping to go straight into the garden with these, but now I'm thinking repotting some...

As far as labeling after they go into the garden, I have my grandkids draw pictures of each type of plant, laminate the pics, then mount those to popcicle sticks. Thus the reason last year we had "zucchini Bread" plants.

 

[MEMama3]

Have you all heard of winter sowing? It applies mostly to us northeners. (Not to shamelessly promote my blog but...) I did a blog post about it a little while back. It works great and let's you do a bit of gardening when theres still several feet of snow on the ground.

http://104homestead.weebly.com/1/post/2014/01/a-better-way-to-sow.html

I can give you my planting guide by month if you're interested and in my zone (5a)

 

[hosspak]

I just drew out plots on graph paper and labeled each pod and each mini pot. I'm hoping to go straight into the garden with these, but now I'm thinking repotting some...

So we decided to transplant because the plants were rapidly outgrowing the pods, the root systems are just amazing. We only transplanted half of our seedlings, and that is already over 100 plants.
This was the seed pods after 7 days...The zuc's, pickles, and cukes already over 2 inches....Gotta love the So. Cal. weather.

The yellow squash literally grows right before your eyes...

Cucumbers, Armenian Cukes, and Zucchini Bread plants.


Each one of these pods has 3 or 4 tomato plants....


All the empty pods contain Habanero seeds..... quite possibly the slowest germinating plants I have ever started.

So that is what we did today.....

 

[veggietreeigrl]

Yesterday, besides watering and weeding I jumped for joy in my garden. Because, my peas are starting to form and I have lettuce starting to sprout.

 

[lazy gardener]

Hosspak, keep the drool material coming! Yesterday, I bought 2 bare root rose bushes for $3 each. When I came out to the car, and showed them to hubby, he just rolled his eyes. I said: "Hi Honey! Look what you just bought me.. A late valentine's day present. It's 2 dozen roses! They've just started budding out. I plan to pot them up this week, and hold them in the garage until I can plant them outside.

 

[erinszoo]

Glad your hubby is so thoughtful like that! Lol!

 

[lularat]

I planted onions, white potatoes, and sowed mustard seeds. I going to start tomato seeds tomorrow.

 

[lazy gardener]

If I can wade through the 4' of snow to the green house and crawl in through the open window this week, I may go in and plant a bit of lettuce and spinach. Also, not too early to plant a few peppers.