Seedling Update

I need the salad greens in the upstairs bedroom to move outside to make room for tomatoes, but it won't stop snowing.

Basil, marjoram, arugula, chervil, summer savory. These were all planted around Valentine's Day.

Mesclun greens.

Chives, sweet peas, more arugula, and on the left, the flower R chose from the seed packet. Pink Fairy Candytuft. Isn't that what you would choose, if you were a six year old girl?

More sweet peas, reaching for the light.

The north wall has more salad greens and herbs, and way in the back, pink Evening Primrose (again, chosen by R from the rotating racks of seed packets at the nursery.) I love the lottery feeling of letting her do that. She actually picked flowers that might do very well in our garden.

We got well over a foot of heavy, wet snow on Wednesday--enough for a snow day from school. It's already melting away from the crocuses, but there is more snow coming tonight.

The snow was so wet and heavy that it damaged a lot of trees. Three big branches from the gnarled juniper that shades our back deck came crashing down. I don't know now if we should just cut it down. There would be no shade at all on the back porch.

Right before the snow came, I put up more pea trellises and planted about half the peas. I held half back to plant later. We'll see which ones do better. I sprouted them first on a paper towel, so I think they will just wait under the snow blanket and pop up when it melts. The snow was so heavy on the netting that it wrecked the trellises and I'll have to re-do them.

I did experiment with a GrowBag planted with salad greens almost 3 weeks ago, that I keep outside. The snow is melting off of it. The seedlings aren't dying, but they're not really growing either. This is only the second year we've had a garden here, so it's all a grand experiment.

I planted these tomatoes in peat pots today. I hope by the time they germinate, there will be room under the lights for them. I actually started a handful of tomatoes three weeks ago. Those are the ones I might try to set out earlier than last frost, inside a Wall-O-Water.