Loads more carrots have come up.
Almost all of the nasturtiums have come up.
Our first okra sprout. You can't see it very well yet, but it's there all right.
A few painted mountain corn have come up.
The mammoth sunflowers I planted last week are already coming up.
I planted two different types of sunflowers.
My potatoes have started to bloom already. It is only May 16th.
Here is one of my celery plants I planted from seed on March 3rd. Celery sure does grow slowly. I hope I actually get some celery before it frosts.
The Cinderella Pumpkin has two true leaves now. Yay!
The zucchini has a true leaf and a half.
The cucumbers almost have one true leaf opened up.
The cilantro is finally growing. I have to say that I do not like peat pots. I had forgotten that since last year, but I won't forget it again. They dry out really fast, and you have to carefully rip them off your plants in several pieces before you plant them. Don't believe anyone who says you can leave them on the plant when you plant them out. I forgot this fact, even though I did already learn it, and plunked these cilantro in the ground. They sat there and complained to me until I said, "what is your deal? Why aren't you growing right?" I scooped one out of the ground to bury it deeper because it looked like it had popped up and was kinda floppy. Lo and behold, the peat pot was still on it. I knew right away that was the problem. I ripped the peat pot off and planted it right back in the dirt. Now it is happy. I did the same thing to all four of the cilantro plants. I have also direct seeded the next round of cilantro, but they haven't come up yet. I plan on planting more very two weeks.
My husband and I went to Lowe's to get two more bags of potting mix so I could re-pot my smaller tomato plants. We both thought that we should buy this sweet mint plant and a pot to grow it in. We see mojitos in our future now. If only we could grow a lime tree here.
I also finally figured out what variety of eggplant it was that I loved so much when I grew it two years ago. Now I know it was a Hansel. I thought I had gotten the right kind last year, but as soon as it started growing I knew it wasn't the same. I didn't like it as well either. Last year I bought an Ichiban because the picture of the fruit looked similar, but the plant is totally different. It grows with a different habit. The Hansel grows taller and with large branches all with fruit, and it also has dark purple colored stems and spines. It makes lots more fruit, and the fruit are delicious.
This is my eggplant I grew from seed. It is a new kind I have not tried before. It makes small round fruit. The picture of the fruit that was on the seed packet looks like the eggplants that my friend Sean Stephan gave me from his garden a few years ago. They were delicious. He also told me that they made a lot of fruit. More than their family could eat, if I remember right. Come to think of it, of coarse that is true, or I wouldn't have gotten so many.
This is our first pea. It is the same one featured in a previous post. It won't be long now before it is ripe. My daughter checks it everyday. She loves peas.
Looky, looky. My graft is growing. I grafted two branches, but one broke off in a wind storm a few weeks ago. This one is finally growing leaves. I am so excited. you can still see the thick layer of wax I put on to keep it from drying out. It is cracking off of the parts that are growing.
Here is the end bud. The leaves are even bigger than the leaves on the main part of the tree.
The strawberries are coming along nicely. I don't think I will get enough this first year for a batch of jam, but definitely enough for a batch of strawberry ice cream and fresh fruit on pancakes and cereal a few times. Yummy. I can hardly wait.
Next post will be about insects in the garden. There is some cool stuff out there today.
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