The Garden is Started

I took pictures of the tomatoes and tomatillos as I was transplanting them and I cannot find the pictures.  I have a new phone that I was using and I must have deleted them. :(

I had a few leftover pots so I took this picture of them.  I used 1 quart pots that I had saved.  Then I added 2 layers of coffee filters to the bottom so the soil wouldn't run out of the hole in the bottom of the pot.  Then I added about 1 inch of soil-less soil.  I set the bottom of the plant on the soil and covered the stems with soil.  Now they will have a lot of roots and I won't have to lay part of the plant in a trench when planting.

I started the seeds on January 24.  Transplanted them into pots on February 28.  Here they are today, March 22.  The two that look dead are the tomatillos.  I think I over watered.

The seedlings on the left are Calendula flowers planted March 1.  The others are Anise and different types of basil that need to be transplanted last week.  They were planted January 24.  I hope to get them transplanted this week, before they die.

These are gourds and pumpkins.  The little pot is my granddaughters sunflowers.  Everything was planted February 28.  I dug up the seeds in the center front pot.  They are still there and look just like the day they were planted.  I'll give them another week and plant some more.

Two spots of spinach are coming up.  Here is one of them.  I forgot to water them for a week after they were planted.  I'm happy to see they survived me.  They were planted March 7.

Can you see the tiny spots of green?  They look more yellow green.  These are the peas I planted when I planted spinach and forgot to water too.

The last thing planted is the lettuce that is at the other end of the spinach bed.

Garden Update 6-16

This is the lettuce, spinach, carrots and beets from the original planting.  I have planted all but the beets 3 times.  The third time was 6/15.  Harvested right after this picture on 6/9.

Harvested.  Make sure you leave a few leaves in the center of the plant if you want it to keep growing.

Seven days and look at how much has grown back!

Here is a close-up of one of the spinach plants.  It is getting a flower and will soon be going to seed.  I am going to let this one keep growing and will save the seeds from it.

Netted the cabbage yesterday morning.  The bugs should be showing up any day now that it is finally warm.  I used bridal tulle.  It has smaller holes than netting.  It is hard to see because it is green.  I used green, because it was given to me for free.  I secured the tulle under the plants with Velcro plant ties.  Two more left to cover.

Went outside to cover the last two cabbages this afternoon and this is what I found.  Look at all the bugs is just over 24 hours.  This one is next to the 3 in the pictures above.

This another view of the same cabbage.  It is so thick with bugs that I pulled it out of the ground and composted it.

This cabbage is kitty-corner from the others.  It had a few bugs on the bottom row of leaves, so I broke them off and covered the rest of it.

The peas that germinated (about half of them) are growing great.

There are a few pea pods.  They have peas just starting to form in them.

A few more pea pods.

The tomatoes in the tubs are doing good.

Two tomatoes in this tub.

The tomatoes in the ground are not doing very well.  There are 6 of these and this is one of the better ones.  Two are dead.

The strawberry plants are doing good.  The strawberries are tiny.  The rollie pollies AKA sow bugs and/or pill bugs are thick this year.  They are eating the berries.  I had 4 ripe ones and each one had about 1/4 of it eaten and when I picked them up there were 2 to 6 sow bugs in each one.  I lifted all the leaves, runners and berries up on each plant and placed a thick layer of grass clippings under everything over the entire bed.  I am hoping the rollie pollies stay under the grass clippings.