Things are slowly but surely growing in the garden.
Out in the beds, my peas are a few inches tall.
I gave them some twigs to climb, spanning the distance between the soil and the trellis I want them to climb on.
I've got Sugar Snap Peas and Lincoln Peas growing.
Here are my turnips:
Beets
Carrots (I swear they're there.... they just finally sprouted this week)
Radishes
And these guys are doing so good that on Monday I decided to sow another square and they are already all up!
A direct-sown golden acre cabbage... I think it's gonna be a long long time until this guy is ready to harvest
My boxes look so pathetic from this angle...
These three window boxes have two different spinaches on the outside and the middle one is Argula (which needs thinning pretty soon)
My lettuce mix is growing in a recycled clementine crate
Remember the hops... last update they were about 2 feet high. Now, they are taller than the trellis they are climbing on!
I don't know if you can tell but there are about 10 more vines starting to climb down here:
I then turned my attention to the seedlings growing in my bay window.
Those guys looked like they were a bit overdue for a re-potting.
I set out a bag in my cube and asked my coworkers to drop off their plastic bottles when they were done. I brought them home, cleaned them well, and then cut them in half - free pots!
I buried the tomatoes up to their first set of leaves to allow them to grow lots more roots.
Now my window looks like this:
And everyone is labeled well
I've been disappointed with the growth of my peppers so I decided to experiment with putting them in a "greenhouse" to raise the heat and humidity. (One of my coworkers suggested trying this). I only did one of each kind like this in case it's a failure:
To make my "greenhouse", I cut a bottle in half, planted the pepper, then cut a slit in the top half and stuffed it back into its bottom half.
I also tried planting a few tomatoes outside already. I'm hedging my bets but I have so many seedlings (6 of each variety) that I'll never have room to plant, I figured I could sacrifice a few and maybe get an early start!
Here's my first planted tomato seedling. I buried a water bottle next to it with it's bottom cut off and a bunch of holes punched in the lid. Apparently tomatoes like to be watered deep down to their roots but don't like wet leaves. All I have to do is pour water into this bottle and the water is delivered straight to the roots!
I also have some milk jug "cloches" which I've set around the tomato seedlings to hopefully protect them if it does get cold again. (It also seemed to work well to protect them from being pelted by the rain storms we've been getting).
Fingers crossed that my early tomato planting will work and I'll be enjoying juicy fruits a little sooner than expected!