What have you done today in the Garden?

Meid--I hear you.
Great that you could find them. Did you get 2-3 or one? Once the plant(s) get going we can talk about harvesting the leaves. With luck, you will be able to harvest 3-4 times a season.

Keeping your loppers clean and sharp is an important subject. The meeting sounds like a good and helpful one.

 

Yesterday... planted lettuce starts out in the raised bed, also planted some seeds...kale, carrots, swiss chard and beets.
Also take care of these tomatoes in the photo below, in my little greenhouse everyday...

 

Deep Woods, your tomato plants are beautiful, and I am jealous.

I read about taking pulp out of lemon halves and using those halves as cups for starting seeds. I put lettuce seed in 4 of them, covered with potting soil and watered. Interesting to see what, if anything, happens.

 

Oh my goodness, Deep Woods, your seedlings look so good to my winter-weary eyes!

GP: I am curious to hear how it goes using lemon rinds as seedling cups.

 

Very amazing deep woods.

 

they look great Deepwoods. what is the potato leaf variety there in the front?

 

Looking goooooood, DW.
I can imagine you having fun in there each day with your little plantlets.

Growing Pains...That sounds interesting to me. I wonder of the sourness of the lemon rind will have any effect at all on the developing plantlets. You must keep us informed on this project's progress.

 

I'm as curious as the rest of you regarding the lemon planters. I read about using them and decided, Nothing ventured/nothing gained. I haven't seen anything growing, so results remain to be discovered.

 

I have been pricking out seedlings all morning, basil, salads, tomatoes and brassicas and I have sown rudbeckia, sunflowers, nicotiana and foxgloves. Off to the garden centre shortly for coffee, cake and houseplant shopping.

 

Like EJ, I've been pricking out seedlings. Some of the herbs needed up-potting, and the sweet pepper plants were outgrowing their containers, too. Another row of green beans goes in this afternoon, and I need to do the first thinning of the carrots. Does anyone know of a way to train a cat to thin carrots?

 

Train a cat to do anything?????
It sounds like an uphill battle to me, mate.

 

EJ. good work!

Marlin, your cat could very well dig in the carrots, only to make a hollow for doing it's business. .
I admit to jealousy. It's too early for any planting here. I do hope to get some potatoes in the ground during the coming week.
Oh, my seeds in lemon halves had to be tossed. I saw mold around the tops of the rinds.

 

Growingtpains, I'm sorry your lemon rind experiment didn't work out, but think of all the posters who have benefited from your experiment's failure. We now know that doesn't work.
Yes, I'm afraid Cali, Timi, and Buddy would "thin" the carrots while fertilizing. I was cutting asparagus this morning and had to keep removing Cali from the basket. She thinks any basket is hers so I had to wash cat hair off my asparagus!

 

Marlin, I wonder if Pets was meant to be Pests.
Nah, we just love the little critters.