Peeking

Two of the five microgreens I planted are germinated and a third is peeking through the soil!

In the front its sunflower microgreens, in the back, beets are out and growing, chard is close behind and looks really similar LOL!

Can't wait to taste the beets, since I love beet greens starting a few days ago ;)

Microgreens for all!

Fill a tray with moistened seed starter, but not all the way up to the top. 

I bought these seed specifically for microgreens....how they actually differ from regular seeds of carrots, basil, kale, etc, I do not know. I might grow some all the way this spring just to see what happens LOL

Carrots, beets, chard. Sow them rather thickly. These three all have a 16-25 day germination time. 

Sprinkle some more seed starter thinly on top, although the instruction sheet that came with the seeds said fine vermiculite would also work. 

This tray is sunflower seeds (germination rather fast for these) then two rows of basil (long germination time of 16+ days). I figure you can't get sick of basil microgreens but again, I'm wondering how the basil will differ from my usual basil seeds, also growing, which I could have taken a photo of but didn't. Hmm....

The other batches I did weren't covered with anything, but the instruction sheet advised using a plastic dome (which won't really work in this case) or a "towel" and somehow that seemed a bit ambiguous to me. I immediately thought damp paper towel...so I tried that on the front tray. Since the sheet doesn't actually say damp, I used a piece of dry paper towel on the back tray. Hopefully I will record the results from dry versus damp paper towel and share that here, too! Surely!

Indoor Sun

The grow lights I threw together years ago (from Future House Farm blog) are still in use even though my kitchen is tiny and I have no other place to keep the seedlings even moderately warm. Happily they are working to give the seedlings at least part of what they need!

The chain attached to the shop lights are on a hook on the stands. so raising the height of the lights are easy and can even make for one side higher than another, to accommodate swiftly growing tomatoes.

Now I just need to get the cat to stop eating my squash plants. What a brat...

And just for fun, photo of the rooster, Georgie Porgie. He is a pretty bloke but still quite wary of me.

Seeds in and ordered!!

Okay, ordered a few seeds including chicory witloof, for homegrown endive.....let's hope that works with a very small learning curve.

Perennial-type stuff growing here regularly:
Meyer lemon tree
rhubarb
horseradish
oregano
rosemary (like a small tree!)
peach tree
raspberries
blackberries
blueberries (so far 3 years, nonproducing, hmmm)
strawberries
grape vine
hardy kiwi
carrots
spinach (from seeds last fall!)
leeks (huge, I think they are 2 years old? Also delicious)
basil (big and small)
parsley, small
garlic, hard and soft neck
elephant garlic
onions that for some reason refuse to BULB OUT. In since LAST FALL.
An unidentified green flourishing bunch of...parsley? cilantro? maybe even celery? I cut it to use while cooking, regardless. At least it's organic, eh?

Planted or seeded out or seeded inside, this week:
tomatoes - yellow, roma, grape, and meaty, and one from Beka's work. Italian?
potatoes, red of some kind
garbanzo beans
adzuki beans
purple podded pole beans
blue lake pole beans
yellow squash
Florence fennel
Japanese bunching onions
kale
kohlrabi
lots of peppers
lots of lettuce (for indoor growing)
bok choy
swiss chard
eggplant
herbs

And I bought some cress. For indoors, of course.

back again!

Too busy to write earlier, planting things, so now that everything is growing (some better than others) I hope to keep a diary of what I did, when I did it, where I put it, and (later, of course) how it GREW!

so here were the seedlings...a few, anyway. I guess I didn't take any other pictures...sorry, kids. I love ya anyway.

I planted some seed corn yesterday as on a whim I bought just one lone corn plant at the nursery last week. Hmm, pollination, anyone? Right. So, a friend gave me some seed corn - quite a lot! I only planted about 6 kernels. Knee high by the Fourth of July? Well, not quite this year. I am also waiting for some bush beans planted in situ to peek their heads up and join the party!