Sunday, April 11, 2010

Growing Things

From Gardening

A future cabbage, starting to look like a cabbage.

From Gardening

A radish, with red starting to peek above the soil. Not everyone in our house (ahem, Nathaniel, ahem) claims to like radishes. I want to try to braise them, which I kept seeing in various cooking blogs. Radishes grow quickly, and I might plant a few more squares of them for kicks.

From Gardening

Indoors, the tomato seedlings have been transferred to larger peat pots, where they have started to grow new leaves. I'm not sure they're getting enough light, still.

From Gardening

I was getting anxious last weekend and planted a few things in little peat pots ahead of their outside planting schedule. The cucumbers have sprouted, although the squashes are still hiding underground.

We're getting close to our last frost date here in zone 7, and we may have ignored that it is still a week away and planted tomatoes outside. We were at a nursery for ground cover to fill in some areas in our front yard and the tomato plants followed us home. I swear!

2 comments:

  1. Oh! Those pesky tomatoes! Good Gardening!

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  2. Looks good! it seems you're a few weeks ahead of us over here in Holland... I'm just like you, can hardly wait to plant everything out, but a bit of frost can ruin your plants. Be sure to check the wheather forecasts, and cover up your tomatoes with a bit of fleece or a cloche at night, just to be sure. I planted out some basil, and ofcourse we had some frost that same night :( half of the plant died out. Glad I kept the tomatoes in the cold frame!

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