The weather outside is starting to look amazing... it was 75 degrees today! But I learned last year not to be fooled by the early warmth, as it can still freeze up until the 3rd week of April.
So, until late April, we'll grow what we can indoors!
Here's a nice collection of greens. I had the most delicious salad this weekend, all with various types of lettuce from the indoor and outdoor gardens. There is LOTS of spinach everywhere, and mixed with mustard greens, kyoto mizuna, kale, and chard, hot steamed green in the microwave with ghee are AMAZING.
Ok, I couldn't wait for late April to plant carrots outside... Here you see Purple Dragon and Carnival carrots in a multi-plug tray of peat and vermiculite, grown under fluorescent lights. With any luck, each of these plugs will turn into a carrot when I put them outside in April!
As Mark says, I'm "over tomato-ing". I can't stop! I'm going to have to give these away to people that live in San Diego : )
More carrots, this time in Peat Pellets. I transplanted these today to gallon pots (more pics of that next weekend).
Carrots - Tonda Di Parigi - in 4" plastic square pots. These adorable little carrots are very shallow, like 1" deep, so I think they'll grow fine in this size pot under fluorescent pots. We'll see! If this works, I'm going to grow HUNDREDS of Tonda Di Parigi carrots indoors.
The picture isn't that clear, but this is my first basil plant. It smells SO good... I'm going to probably damage the leaves, because every time I walk by it I have to touch the leaves and smell them. Incredible! Again, if this grows well, you guessed it.... HUNDREDS of Basil indoor plants! LOL
Cucumber Marketmore... indoors... in March. Not very smart! I'm going to have to prune these several times to keep them under control until they can actually go outside in late April! It was more for fun that I germinated them early, and for data. Cucumber seeds germinate SO fast. I have actually since bought and germinated some tiny bush cucumber plants. The Picklebush only grows to 2' high. Now THAT is going to be cute!
Yummy yummy chard... I have NEVER eaten chard before this year, and it's delicious cooked with Spinach and Mustard Greens and Mizuna.... NOM!
And now... tomato jungle. Again, for data, I germinated cherry tomato seeds WAY too early, and now I'm going to have give them away and prune them and deal with this jungle.
Still trying to get mini sweet peppers out of mini pepper seeds. They are sure slow growing... hopefully they'll go crazy when it heats up more.
And now.... Tomato Jungle!
Look how beautiful the hydroponic veggies are doing. Green tower romaine lettuce, cherry tomato, sweet mini pepper, cucumber, and red sails romaine lettuce.
I'm really hoping the peppers do well hydroponically. They sure didn't like growing outside last summer.
Cute hydroponic peppers.
See you next weekend!
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