Planting Day!

Woohoo! So pretty much the first round of everything is in the ground, the only exceptions are beans, and potatoes.  The weather was great, so I spread the planting out over Saturday and Sunday and spent some time doing other yard work as well.  Continue to scroll down for more closeup pictures of the beds with the newly planted sprouts.

Barley:

Cabbage:

Spinach:

Cucumbers:

Onions (top half) and Carrots (bottom half):

Broccoli:

Here is the lettuce:

Peas:

Hops.  The small stakes are only temporary, I am building a trellis that should be ready by the time they need it:

Well, that's all for now.  Hope you check back soon to see how everything grows in the ground!

We have sprouts going strong!

Well, it's been far too long of a wait, but the sprouts haven't taken any time off, just me!  I took these pictures today, about 16 days after planting everything except the barley, and the barley has been in for about 10 days.  I think they are looking pretty good so far, but most of them probably need another week before I'm ready to plant, plus the weather is still pretty cold, so I'm not in much of a rush.  

Peas and onions.

Broccoli and lettuce.

Spinach and cabbage.

Barley, and no cucumbers yet :(  So far they are the only thing that hasn't sprouted at all yet, but hopefully this week they'll wake up and smell the sunshine!  

Five days later, and we have sprouts!

Well, today was exciting!  I went to water my seeds this morning, and lo and behold, sprouts!

These are the broccoli seeds that I started on Sunday, sprouting on Friday!  Also, just a couple lettuce poked through this afternoon, my camera kind of ate the picture, but you get the idea:

Hopefully, the rest of the sprouts will show up in a couple more days, and I'll have a full batch of starts to go in the ground in a couple weeks when the weather clears up.

Late pictures of starting seeds

I did this on Sunday afternoon last week, and I've kept the soil moist watering 1-2 times a day.  The raised rack in the garden window seems to be a good place for them, where my cat doesn't find them and start digging, and they get decent light exposure.

Not much to it, I filled the egg cartons with soil, added the seeds, and then covered them with loose soil, and watered them.  From left to right:

Onion

Cabbage

Lettuce

Peas

Cucumber

Carrots

Broccoli

Spinach

This is what I used to start my seeds.  Egg cartons, and 1 bag of good organic seed starting soil mix.