Cool weather veg's are coming up!

[applestar]

Noted today around the garden -- sprouted Peas, lettuce, kohlrabi, cilantro, chervil, Rainbow chard, possibly some carrots. Garlic have been up already, and, now, Egyptian or multiplier onions that were planted last fall.

[tn_veggie_gardner]

Awesome! I loooooooooooooove garlic. I planted about 30 or so starts of it this year, and I do 80% of my gardening in containers, so that's a lot of space! lol

[rainbowgardener]

I have sprouts of head lettuce, leaf lettuce, chard, spinach!

I was worried about them because just a few hours after I planted the seeds we had a huge rainstorm (I should have been watching weather reports better!). I was worried the seeds would have washed out, but all is well!

[gixxerific]

Cool apple I have some lettuce pooping their heads up as well. I can't my chard hasn't surfaced yet though. Still waiting on the the onions and garlic.

It has satarted there is no stopping it now.

[lj in ny]

My chard survived the winter....? I mulched it with chopped up leaves last fall. I moved it to another part of the garden last weekend and it seems to be doing fine. I'm not sure how it will taste. I'm planting more in some of the flower gardens just in case. Has anyone else had chard survive in my type of climate? If so, how does it taste?

I didn't plant garlic last fall....I'm bummed about that.

[Duh_Vinci]

Nice going Apple! But you know - for some of us, pictures are really needed to aid with the feeling of the spring

Regards,
D

[rainbowgardener]

my first baby carrot sprouts are up now too!

Maybe I'll try to get a picture, but the little seedlings are still so tiny, the picture might just look like dirt!

[gixxerific]

Were the carrots direct seeded? [ ED RBG Yes, direct seeded in the ground ] I have some I planted indoors and am going to try and get them n today as well as some seed. Just wondering if they will do any good being transplanted being a root crop.

[applestar]

Try WATERING them in. Make a hole deep enough for the entire root to go in straight, pour water in it, position the seedling, and fill in. With bare seedlings, I hold it over the hole by a seed leaf, pour water into the hole (which helps to straighten the root), then sort of pinch the hole closed. For seedlings with soil around the root, I sort of hold the root ball against the side of the hole, add more soil under the root ball if necessary, then dump soil over my hand, then work the hand loose.

[jal_ut]

That's great. Nothing growing here yet. Too cold. The garlic hasn't even came up yet. I will wait until April to plant my early stuff. I did plant some onions last week though.

[applestar]

I second rainbowgardener when...

Maybe I'll try to get a picture, but the little seedlings are still so tiny, the picture might just look like dirt!

I don't have a super zoom lens or good camera like you DV -- I'd have to lay on the cold wet ground!

[gixxerific]

come on now if your not getting dirty your not gardening.

[applestar]

Here ya go. A photo of the Early Purple Vienna Kohlrabi, starting to "bulge"
[img]https://i290.photobucket.com/albums/ll272/applesbucket/Image7008.jpg[/img]

[DoubleDogFarm]

Very nice. Did you have to lay on the ground.

[rainbowgardener]

Yeah, my carrots that I couldn't have taken a picture of back in Mar, now have little orange bulges!

[garden5]

Kohlrabi is something that really intrigues me and I'll have to try to grow some next year. Those purple ones look really cool. How do they taste? How are you supposed to cook them?

[gixxerific]

Those have such a great color to them. Nothing like some color in the garden.

I'm in the removing stage for cool crops now. though some are still hanging on.