I forgot, yesterday I planted some left over coleus seeds too. I put them in the plug tray with the peppers to fill it up. Should work well since it is on a heat mat.
This morning I replanted some lettuce that was old seed and didn't germinate. Then I went out to the greenhouse and started cleaning. I put the plastic covers on the mini greenhouses inside. Two of them are ripped something terrible at the zippers but it will still give protection so I'm using them.
I actually got the Oregon Giant snow peas planted in a pot in the greenhouse too. I had them soaking since yesterday. I sure hope they germinate.
After we ate lunch we decided to go to the farm to do some clean up. David cut all the asparagus down while I rolled up row cover fabric and weed barrier for the aisles. I started to weed a bit but I get restless and jump all over the place. The daffodils are coming up. That row never got weeded with all the grass so the dead roots are still there. I think it may be giving them some protection from the cold though. I think it is all annual grass so I don't think it will really hurt anything and I will be digging up all the bulbs after they bloom so I may abandon that row and work on something else. God knows there is plenty of other choices!
I wanted to plant some flowers in vermiculite today but I'm just too tired. So I'm making chicken and gravey with corn and peas to put over baked potatoes and then I'll see about getting us plane tickets for Baltimore!
Planted a few cabbage the other day to finish off the APS that I had done cauliflower in. 15 cauliflower so that would mean 25 cabbage. I think 10 are minature Chinese and 15 are gonzales.
then today I planted a lot! Asian greens, the new caulinflower varieties from Twilley, Packman broccoli, all my peppers ans two varieties of tomatoes, the super big one from burpee and Independence Day, a determinant.
cleaned up a bit in the greenhouse.
yesterday morning it was 6! Holy cow! Just too cold for too long!
supposed to be warm all weekend so hopefully I'll get more planted but. I'm expecting more cold in February!
Yay! I actually got three more APS units (40) planted today. More broccoli and 15 cauliflower (snow crown). I soaked some Early Dividend broccoli seeds that were from the same pack that hasn't germinated. They are from 2009. I also sprayed heavily the cells where the first ones were planted. Then I soaked about 200 Calabrese from 2009 and planted them. Now watch them mostly germinate. What in the heck would I do with all that broccoli? Could plant it all and take it to market early April I guess! LOL!
I have plug trays ready to put starting mix in for lettuce. Not sure if I will plant today yet, or tomorrow.
I am sorting which flowers I want to winter sow and then I will know how many containers to get ready.
The wind is kicking up so we're not sure if the tarps will stay on the greenhouse or not. Hopefully when these next 10 or so days pass we will get back to a more normal winter where it's actually warm enough to do some work outside. I would like to do some weeding in the garden as the henbit is everywhere already!
But at least I am feeling a bit less depressed about gardening now! For awhile I wasn't sure I was going to make it work this year!
Geeze, I can't even keep up with my blog about seeds and that's the biggest reason I started one.
So the broccoli has started to come up. First was Green Magic, in three days. Then the hybrid mix. No Calabrese. What a surprise! Guess I should have soaked those ten year old seeds in peroxide first! LOL! But no Early Dividend either. Guess that seed was too old too.
I got some new seeds this week in the mail so next flower day I'll be planting them, hopefully. This cold weather is really putting a damper on my enthusiasm. I really want to do the biggest part in the greenhouse so it has to get a bit warmer, or at least we need a bit more sunshine so inside the GH gets warmer.
Since DH was building bookshelves in the LR the house has been torn up with furniture everywhere. Hopefully now that the boookshelves are finished I can get everything back in its place and focus on these seeds. I'll even be able to have my gardening books and logs real handy on the shelves. And seed catalogs! I know I am done ordering seeds this year, but you just never know what I may discover I have forgotten.
And getting back to this moon calendar planting, I don't think I'm going to be able to follow it real close this year. Most of my seed planting has to be done on the weekends so I have to go with whatever needs to be planted, regardless of what kind of a day it is. Unless I start getting up earlier in the morning and planting before I go babysit. Right now I can barely drag myself out of bed before 7 am. And even if I did, I'd need the flats already prepared to receive the seeds. So, okay, that's what I should shoot for. Prepare the flats one morning, plant the next. So that's the plan. But not tomorrow...
First batch of broccoli planted! Early Dividend, Hybrid blend, Green Magic and Calabrese. Calabrese seed is from 2003 so it's more of an experiment to see if I can get any to germinate.
I got some heirloom broccoli from Territorial this year so I can save seeds.
I checked my records and last year I planted my first broccoli on Jan. 9 so I am only about a week behind. Better than I thought. Of course I still have some early broccoli seeds coming in my Johnny's seed order which I am hoping will arrive tomorrow.
Tomorrow is a leaf day so I will plant some cauliflower. Planting goes quickly if I have the trays filled with seed starting mix. And I'm hoping to fill the trays in the greenhouse, NOT in the kitchen like usual. Tonight it was the kitchen! Bad enough the house was only 54 because we had no heat, I sure didn't feel like going out to the greenhouse!
I think I will do lettuce in plug trays again only this time maybe instead of trying to not break/tear the plug trays, I will just cut them to get the seedlings out easier.
