More seeds! More seedlings!

All my seeds arrived!!  It was a very exciting package to receive.  At first, I was a bit surprised to see the coriander and a bit sad to not see any cilantro. Then I learned that coriander is cilantro.  My mind was blown.

I consulted my plan and started some more seeds.  I started the eggplant, cabbage, broccoli, tomatoes, squash, zucchini, bell peppers and cucumber (4 pods of each).  Pictured below, in row 1, columns 1-4 are the eggplant (which are slow bloomers). In column 5, rows 1 through 4 are the cabbage. In row 5, columns 2 through 5 are broccoli.  Row 1, columns 2 through 5 are the hot peppers (which have finally sprouted!!) In the center are the currant tomatos, crowder peas and okra (in rows from left to right).  Did you follow that? The plum tomatos, squash, zucchini, peppers and cucumbers are in different boxes.

There have been two fatalities on the farm.  One artichoke and one brussel sprout.  The artichoke may or may not be dead, but he looks pretty sad.  The bussel is a goner.  But life must go on. 

The winner so far has been this crowder pea.  I don't even know what a crowder pea is, but this thing has been growing like crazy!  Almost an inch a day!  

Below, on the left, are the okra.  They seem to be doing quite nicely.  On the right, from the front, is a squash, a zucch and cuke, all of which were transfered today.  

Finally, my friend Brad started too many beefsteak tomato plants, so he gave me 4 seedlings. Success!

And the mushroom log just looks moldy :(

Seedlings!!

I have my first seedling!! I am pumped! The brussel sprouts popped up first, followed closely by the artichokes.  I had planted two seeds per pod, so when both sprouted I picked which one was my favorite and plucked the other. While I was away this weekend, they grew like weeds. I propped up the brussels with some skewers because they had all flopped over. Not sure if this is what was supposed to happen, but they look healthy!

The peppers are taking their sweet time, but that's okay.  I can see a little bit of growth, but I am going to leave them in the greenhouse a bit longer to give them time to mature.

Since the brussels and 'chokes had pretty much outgrown the greenhouse while I was gone, I decided to transfer them to peet pots.  I put down some dirt and a little bit of organic fertilizer (which smells like you think it does) and dropped them in.  I also watered them pretty heavily.

Since there was now more room in the greenhouse, I decided to start some more seeds.  As luck would have it, my mom gave me some new fun seeds this weekend.  Currant tomatoes, Brown crowder peas, and Perkins long green okra! The okra suggested I soak the seeds over night and plant them in the ground, but I just dropped them into the seed starter pods.   The tomato seeds look fuzzy, which was fun. The pea seeds look like dried peas. 

More seeds should be arriving tomorrow! Wahoo!

Planting seeds

Today I planted my first seeds!  The kit of seeds was delayed but the hot peppers and brussel sprouts and artichoke seeds all arrived.

I am using Jiffy seed starter pellets.  They are a little strange in that they expand like a puffer fish.  I've read good reviews for them, so hopefully this will work.  I planted 4 pellets with brussels, 4 with artichokes and 1 for each pepper, with 2 seeds per pellet.

I covered the pellets and will check in a week or so to see if I have any baby seedlings.  Hopefully by the time the rest of the seeds get here these little guys will be ready to be transferred to pots.

Also, today I decided to soak my mushroom log.  Not really "gardening", but it will be (hopefully) adding to my home grown food stuffs, so I decided to add it here.  After a full 24 hour soak, it supposedly will start producing Shiitake mushrooms within 2 weeks.

We will see...