week 4 (03/24/2011)

 

I know this post is a couple of days late.  I have been in training all week and it was a bit exhausting so I put off writing this post until the weekend.  This week I planted my tomatoes.  My peppers have not come up yet but I can see very tiny sprouts coming up.

This is a picture of my okra which is looking very sad.  I bought these pellets at Home Depot that you can just add water too and they turn into a seed starter for your seedlings.  I haven't been really happy with them.  This picture at the top of this blog is a picture of my soybeans.  The leaves are looking great but the stems are extremely weak, and I worry that they wont be able to hold the beans up.  

My eggplant looks like it is really the only one that seems to enjoy these seed starter pellets.  This week they have all sprouted a third leaf and look green and healthy.

I re-planted some okra, soybeans, and some peppers in this home made seed starter.  It is just an egg carton with holes poked in the bottom filled with compost and dirt.  I wanted to plant the same seeds that I had used in the seed starter pellets so I could really compare which one worked the best.  Of course the egg carton isn't very deep so I will have to transplant the seedlings sooner than I would with the seed pellets but hopefully the seedlings will be healthier.

On Sunday I will be planting some pea seeds directly into the ground if the snow has completely melted.  It has been warm here but yesterday we had a small snowstorm and today the temperature is about 38 degrees F.  It is supposed to warm up by the end of this week to the 50s.  If not I will probably wait until next week to plant my seeds.  

Still no tulip blooms yet but they are getting close!  I have buds on all of my trees and both honeysuckle plants.  I can't wait for spring flowers!