Seedlings in Two Days

Two days after I seeded the mesclun blend the tiny roots were emerging. Two days after that the seed leaves were up! It's a miracle every time and by starting seeds under lights we can experience that miracle up close. In about three weeks I will be making salads from those energetic plants. The spicy mesclun was faster then the sweet, and it was fun to see that the roots of the Bulls Blood beets were as red as the leaves will be.

Sowing Seeds

Today I sowed Sun Gold and SuperSweet 100 tomato seeds as well as mesclun salad mixes; one spicy, one sweet. The Sun Gold tomato is the tastiest I've ever eaten! It's small, not a slicing tomato, with a full bodied flavor that can't be beat. If you're really, really nice to me maybe I'll give you a plant... I did sow 40 seeds so may have one or two extra plants. 

Spring Poem

All winter long I heed the call

of computer & books & houseplants all

but now that spring is nearly here

with seeds & trowel & birds that cheer

the coming warmth

I cannot spend...

(I only tell the truth, my friend!)

I must hold my dollars close

and spend them where I love the most;

the garden centers calling me

with herbs and grasses... a stately tree, a budding rose.

You feel it, too,

the green world is also part of you. 

My New Greenhouse!

After wanting one since forever, I am finally the proud owner of a 10x12 double wall polycarbonate greenhouse! It came in a box and now I have to set up a gravel base, get it erected, order solar vent openers, etc. Spring is galloping onward (did you know that spring moves northward at a rate of twelve miles a day?) and seeds have been started under lights. If we get cracking on the greenhouse I will be able to grow them on in there. My buddy JoAnn bought one at the same time so we will be comparing plants and growing techniques. By the time it's up I'll have figured out how to post pictures, I promise!