Yesterday, only 4 days after being planted, here is my long box planter, cilantro on the left, lettuce in the middle, chives on the right.
And TODAY, 5 days after planting, here is what I found:
One cilantro is showing, and two chives are showing but look at the lettuce!
This is such a miracle! I LOVE watching seeds sprout and grow! Yippee!!!
How many of you have heard of "Square Foot Gardening"?
It's a really cool plan to make gardening in general much easier. The author has a website which explains most of his theory. I'm going to try it in my backyard veggie garden for sure and maybe other places too. TBC....
2 comments:
Hi Coneflower!
I could swear I left a comment at your last post, but guess not!
Great to see you have seeds coming up like crazy ... now the challenge is to give them enough light, but it looks like you can handle that.
You'll probably want to thin some of these eventually for transplanting but for now, isn't it great just to see green?
One suggestion with the Cilantro (if you really like it and want to use it) is buy lots more seeds to plant progressively as the season goes on. The thing with Cilantro is that it "bolts" really quickly when the weather starts to get hot and the flavor of the herb is completely different (it then becomes Coriander) and not what you want Cilantro for ... I'd direct sow some outside (that's what I do) and re-seed every couple of weeks and keep it cut back as much as you can to try to prevent "bolting." You won't be entirely successful, but what you can do is let some plants just go to seed in place and you'll have it popping up again next spring! (That's the good part about this.)
Glad you're having fun and hope you have some great plants to put out when it finally gets warmer!
IVG
I IVG. Thanks for stopping by. I don't get a lot of company. I'd better start putting up prettier photos. LOL
Thanks for the tips on the cilantro. I'll definitely plant more outside....more chives and lettuce too. I just REALLY needed to see green.
The tomatoes (five varieties) literally popped up overnight. I was a little under the weather one day and didn't check on them and that's what I get.
Hmmmmm. I see I haven't posted those photos yet. I'll get a new post up asap. I have a tomato forest!
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