It is hard for me to believe that I have
only 29 posts so far this year! Last year in the same time period I had 118, in
March alone I blogged 45 times! I think it was way too much… J.
Anyway, last Fall we have decided that we
will cut down drastically on flower containers that took so much time to take
care of. Also, visually it was a bit crowded. Last year I started so many
flowers from seed that it filled our sunroom once transplanted from plug trays.
This Spring I have planted only Nasturtium, Lobelia and Red Millet, that’s it.
Happy to report all the seedlings are doing great.
When it comes to vegetables I had some
unexpected failures (no germination). I planted 2 kinds of peppers, 2 kinds of
Asian eggplants, cucumbers (1 variety) and 5 kinds of tomatoes. Peppers and
eggplants didn’t germinate at all and 1 tomato variety (Sweet Baby Girl, hybrid
F1) didn’t germinate as well. Mind you, I have seeded only 2 cells with 1 seed
per cell. However, cucumbers have done well despite the fact that last year
they didn’t (same seed packet). New this year are Saint Marzano Italian paste
tomatoes that I bought from Thomson Morgan. The seeds are imported from Italy
and come 500 seeds to a packet. Five Hundred seeds!!! Nuts! I need only a dozen
or so…Anyway, I had 100% germination success with these seeds and they grow so
fast! Another new for me this year
are 2 heritage tomato varieties whose seeds I have collected from tomatoes we
have bought from a roadside stand. We were absolutely blown away by the
incredible tomato taste of these timeless varieties. I have no idea what they
are, just that one is yellow in color and the other one has green and yellow
stripes and is sort of flat in shape. Name is not important, the taste is.
Still, I would like to know if they are determinate or indeterminate. Either
way is fine with me but since I grow them for a paste determinate will work
much better for me.
Four weeks till outdoor planting! By then
tomatoes will have small fruits and cucumbers will be one foot high J
Lobelia. The seeds are size of a dust particle!
Nasturtium. I love to munch on flowers and leaves and to collect seeds for "capers".
On left are tomato seedlings from 10 days ago.
And this is what they look like today. What a difference 10 days makes! Stacked pots in front center are Red Millet seedlings.
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