Seedling Progress

Approximately two and a half weeks ago, we planted a lot of seeds in the garden, so there's been a lot of little seedlings coming up. All of these pictures show roughly where our plants were shortly after they came up, but now these seedlings are much bigger.

 Below you can see a picture of how our radishes looked a week or so ago. Our dad gave us Easter Egg radish and Cherry Belle radish seeds, so we planted a combination of those, as well as our radish seed mix from last year. Maybe we'll have radishes in a week or two.

We also have arugula and tatsoi coming up, although not quite as thickly as the radishes. You can see a picture of either the arugula or tatsoi below; they look almost the same as the radish seedlings when they start out. Now that they are quite a bit bigger than the picture below, and developing true leaves, we went out today and reseeded between the gaps in the rows, so hopefully this will result in fuller rows.

We were really happy to see our Cherokee Trail of Tears beans making some good progress by poking up out of the soil a week and a half ago. Unfortunately, our lima beans haven't come up at all yet, and we don't think they will. We suspect that we may have overwatered them as beans don't like soggy soil. The Cherokee's are much bigger now and developing true leaves, but there were some gaps within the rows. We  reseeded some Cherokee seeds in the gaps and also planted some Blue Lake starter bean plants in the rows. For the lima beans, we still had some seed so we replanted a row of those. Let's cross our fingers that those come up!

The spinach we planted didn't come up either, but it was old seed that we didn't expect we would get any results from. Luckily, however, the Swiss chard is coming up, although we did have to plant some extra seeds in the gaps where seeds didn't come up.The beets are showing some progress too, although they are so small still, it's not really worth taking a picture.

Our carrot pots are doing well too. We planted a combination of Nantes, mixed coloured, and Little Finger carrots. This week, we noticed some of their true leaves starting too.

This concludes our seed progress in two and a half weeks time. Stay tuned for some updates on our tomatoes, peppers, leeks, and pumpkins!

Megan and Jennifer