Planted seeds!

[M.Clark]

On 2/15 I started the following:
4 varieties of tomatoes,
3 varieties of pepper (2 hot, one not),
Eggplant,
Cucumber,
Chives,
Collard greens,
Lettuce,
Cabbage,
Corn,
Spinach (only thing that did not come up yet)
Leeks
Swiss Chard
Broccoli

For many of these, I only started ¼ to ½ what I plan on for the year. That way things will be ready for harvest at different times and not quite all at once. Since I planted these, the shot up (older heating pad on low under the trays), and already transplanted the tomatoes, corn, cucumbers, and broccoli into larger containers.

I plan no starting more plants on 3/15 in doors and hope that I will have my cold frame hoop house set up which would allow me to sow the root plants and 1st starts out doors. The final sowing will be on 4/15 which might be a direct sowing (depending on temps)

[rainbowgardener]

Potted up the baby onions--something I've never done before, since usually I direct seed onions.

Took the onions, parsley, and thyme outside to start hardening off with the broccoli. 40-some degrees and light rain right now. Supposed to go up almost to 60 today, but not looking like it will make it. All of it will still be going in and out for awhile. Snow in the forecast again on Sun!

Working on up-potting all the tomatoes!

[rainbowgardener]

The soil can be worked! For all those "plant as soon as the soil can be worked" veggies, that is now. I turned the soil in one bed over with a shovel and it just all fell apart into the prettiest seed bed! Yesterday I planted swiss chard, mixed lettuces, and spinach outside.

Planted amaranth indoors.

The trays of broccoli, onions, thyme, parsley are still going in and out, but maybe stay out starting from today... If that works, probably put them in the ground this coming weekend.

[applestar]

Me too! Planted yesterday outside -- Fava beans, Dakota shelling peas, snap peas (of course my snowpea seeds are still not here ), rainbow swiss chard, two kinds of mustard, Red Russian kale, radish, two kinds of spinach.

[2cents]

RG,
Hope you brought everything in.
We had snow over here.
Still I will be putting onions & radishes in the ground this weekend.
What do you think of putting out Kolrabi this early.

[rainbowgardener]

Yup, I've got snow on the ground too. The trays of broccoli, thyme, onion, parsley are back in the house. There are seeds in the ground, lettuce, swiss chard, spinach. They will be fine. It's all cold hardy stuff, I'm not worried. Probably the plants would have survived if left out, they've been out enough now, but the onions are mostly still so thin and spindly I decided not to stress them. I haven't grown kohlrabi myself, but I think it is very cold hardy and should be fine. This time of year it gets cold, but it doesn't stay cold real long.

[rainbowgardener]

Took 10 trays of plants over to church to sell off tomorrow. I have already planted a bunch of stuff and have several more trays of plants sitting outside waiting to be planted. That leaves just 7 trays under the lights downstairs and I turned off a couple of the light fixtures. Another couple weeks and the indoor seed starting will be done for the season! Every single seedling is in its own pot now.

Incidentally, something interesting. I got busy with outdoor work and not paying as much attention to the indoor stuff, just throwing a little water in the trays now and then. Since the seedlings were too big to be affected by damping off, I quit bothering with the cinnamon and chamomile in the water. Guess what... I now have a whole bunch of fungus gnats, after not having any up until now. It makes it clear that it was the cinnamon/chamomile keeping them at bay (more likely keeping down the fungus they feed on). ... At this point I will probably just live with them for the last couple weeks. As soon as I shut down the seed starting operation, they will go away.