Weekly Update

By happenstance my previous two posts have also been made on Sundays. Maybe this will be a regular thing for me? (Jinxes aside!)

Seedling update!

The cucumbers are looking good... except for the one I dropped and broke a few days ago. RIP, little dude. He was never as big as his cousins; if I hadn't been such a klutz he probably wouldn't have made it anyways.

By next week this guy will probably completely overtake his neighbor! Those are my (dirty) fingers in the picture for size, but that leaf is about two inches long, and the plant is about 4 inches high (maybe a little more).

The other cukes are two-leaved, so they aren't as dramatic-looking (size-wise) as this one, but they're about the same height.

According to Joy of Gardening, I should be transplanting these guys into the garden at this stage; that is, if the last frost was past. Oops!

His buddy in the bottom left is a miniature variety of lettuce plant. He's really mini at the moment, but the cukes have a week on them, so we'll see. They're going to stay put in the containers to grow, since they won't be getting too huge, but I'll put some in the garden as well.

My tomato plants are shooting up there too. A little leggy, perhaps, but that's just room for roots to fill in later, when planting-time rolls around.

The one to the rights is a Big Boy variety (or Better Boy? I always get them confused). I'd say he's 3 or 4 inches tall, and so are his comrads.

All the "normal" sized tomatoes have officially out-grown their miniature grape-sized counterparts now, which makes sense... but still! I planted the cherry tomatoes almost a week before them! Oh, and speaking of cherry tomatoes, I felled one a week or two ago. Some people have to plan on a certain percentage of seeds not germinating, being lost to bugs, rodents, or frost – me? I have to plan around my two left feet.

That is a plastic knife in the background if you were wondering. I'm going to be using them as markers in the garden. Yay, recycling!

Another recycling project was the creation of this container, to the left. All I used was a plastic bag and a small cardboard box that something-or-other came in. You have to line the box twice though: the top liner should have a couple holes for drainage, the bottom liner should be in place to catch said-drainage. The cardboard would melt away and rot otherwise. (Also, a sandwich baggy now tops it off, to help germination.)

Not the prettiest thing I've ever made, but I've always felt veggie gardening had a sort of industrial/recycled style to it. I've also got several of my seeds planted in milk and juice containers, although I gave in and bought some plastic white ones too – there's a limit to how much milk and juice one can consume in a week, after all! I'll have to remember to save up for next year.


So that's the seedling update for this week! I wonder what next week's post will look like? Hint: