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Apr. 26th, 2020 03:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sylkeI transplanted the three heirloom sprouts and two of the cherry tomatoes yesterday. I'd moved them out from under the grow light a few days earlier since they were getting so tall, I couldn't get the light down low enough for the shorter plants without scorching the leaves of the big plants. Fortunately I have a south-facing window to give them plenty of light. I just need to remember to keep going in there to water them and rotate them. The replacement cherry tomato and jalapeno have sprouted, and the older jalapeno is on the windowsill now, but still in its initial pot. I hope the transplant succeeds, the seedlings are still quite delicate and looked bedraggled after the transplant. This morning they've perked up, though.
Since yesterday was nice and warm, I put a few things in the ground. A handful of purple pole beans by the wooden arch (which is starting to deteriorate), some Alaska peas in a strip near where the mulberry tree was, and a full packet of carrot seeds in two rows in the top half of the strawberry box (which has maybe one or two struggling little plants in the bottom half of it left and that's it). I sowed the carrot seeds a little heavily, but they're from 2016 and I'm not confident at how well they'll germinate. It's going to be colder this week, no frost, but the
The arugula is growing happily. The lettuce is pathetic, the kale is doing fine but not gangbuster.
I also started three more plants. After inspiration from a friend on FB serving them pickled, I ordered seeds for pattypan squash. I don't know that I've ever really had it before, but it's supposed to be very versatile. It's an heirloom variety, "Scallop Early White Bush", that is touted as "an ancient variety very much prized by native North American Indians", so I have hopes it'll grow well in our native climate. Three pots of those going, planned to put in the other half of the lower strawberry box. Might just be able to fit two of them there, not sure how big these things get and I think it's only an 8' long box.
Since yesterday was nice and warm, I put a few things in the ground. A handful of purple pole beans by the wooden arch (which is starting to deteriorate), some Alaska peas in a strip near where the mulberry tree was, and a full packet of carrot seeds in two rows in the top half of the strawberry box (which has maybe one or two struggling little plants in the bottom half of it left and that's it). I sowed the carrot seeds a little heavily, but they're from 2016 and I'm not confident at how well they'll germinate. It's going to be colder this week, no frost, but the
The arugula is growing happily. The lettuce is pathetic, the kale is doing fine but not gangbuster.
I also started three more plants. After inspiration from a friend on FB serving them pickled, I ordered seeds for pattypan squash. I don't know that I've ever really had it before, but it's supposed to be very versatile. It's an heirloom variety, "Scallop Early White Bush", that is touted as "an ancient variety very much prized by native North American Indians", so I have hopes it'll grow well in our native climate. Three pots of those going, planned to put in the other half of the lower strawberry box. Might just be able to fit two of them there, not sure how big these things get and I think it's only an 8' long box.
