Inside Starts, Yours & Mine

Here's a few of my seedlings so far...

Alyssum, I over sowed because it was older seed and it popped up in 2 days!
Eucalyptus, salvia test seeds and some snapdragons on the right.


Peppers started on March 5, the flat on the right on March 10, having a little trouble keeping the heat up for them.



And Impatiens seed starting to peek, 4 days, the temp must have been right.


Tomatoes are peeking but not much to see yet, and some others I will post later.

HotPepperQueen said:

Thanks, Lavender! Isanti is only about a half hour from me, if that. I will definitely check it out.

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They also sell a good soilless mix, but I have had no trouble using the planting mix for starting and it saves me from early up-potting. I don't think you will be disappointed, and the nursery is amazing!
Here's some of my plants from previous years ...

@Lavender2, what do you do with the eucalyptus?

Oooh!

Those are nice! Let us hope for yet another good year.

Steve

thistlebloom said:

@Lavender2, what do you do with the eucalyptus?

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I grow it as an annual and cut it to dry for arrangements. It grows very fast! You can also grow it in a pot, cut it back, and rest it inside for the winter, but I've never tried that.

@digitS' ... Thanks! ....

Lavender2 said:

They also sell a good soilless mix, but I have had no trouble using the planting mix for starting and it saves me from early up-potting. I don't think you will be disappointed, and the nursery is amazing!
Here's some of my plants from previous years ...
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Those are simply stunning. I have tried to dabble in flowers before but with no luck. This year I planted tons of different varieties of Zinnias and so far so good with those guys. My marigolds only have about 40% germination. I have always been more drawn to vegetable gardening....and seem to have better luck. I called my awesome mother and told her I have to bring her to that greenhouse. Every spring we go to about 6 different nurseries in the surrounding area. It's so much fun and so much creativity is sparked there.

Better late than never....
First seeds in the soil last night. 2 solo cups each of White Wonder, Uncle Mark Babgy, Thessolonika & Chocolate Stripe tomatoes and 2 cups of peas.

Yesterday, I attempted to exercise some brain cells. Which is difficult right now because I am just about 7 days into a late winter cold. (I'm not calling this "spring" !)

Anyway, I planted the eggplant seed at the same time as the 2nd sowing of pepper seed. All of those peppers are up! The University of Minnesota says 13 days for both at 70 degrees! It was all old eggplant seed . . . nice assortment, but olde.

I went off to see what the garden center had. Figured it would be 5 companies, each offering Black Beauty. Nope, they had one from Ed Hume - Eclipse! It is a 65 day variety!

Shoot. Seed for that Italian bell went into the soil mix yesterday afternoon . . . there are sprouts everywhere in the eggplant seed sown weeks ago, this morning!

(I am okay with that. )

Happy to see both the green and purple Asians showing up, led by Shoya. Showed me!

Steve

It's a spring time miracle! I woke up this morning and there were 4 little Sweet Bananas popping there heads up through the soil. I can't believe it. Hopefully they keep on trucking, I need a minimum of 4 plants in my garden this year for all my canning needs.

Things going on in the greenhouse, at a fairly slow pace:

The tomatoes are still a little topsy-turvy from their recent move to the 4-packs. It looks like we may have sun for a little bit of the day - Yay! I don't think I will have to hide them under the bench from its strong (if brief) rays but I'd better watch to see how they do. The little community packs of Anaheim & Jalapeno peppers (kind of in the center) have to get my attention out there, also. They are the next ones needing to go in the 4-packs. No great hurry except I've got to go thru more tomato transplanting soon and had better not let things back up!

Meanwhile, in the South Window:

I moved that nearest tomato box closer to the window after shooting this. Those things got a little stretched looking for light the last few days! I hate to move them into the only slightly-better-lit greenhouse from this warmer South Window but might. Marigolds and zinnias are gonna be showing up here soon. Well, maybe they can ALL go into better spring sunlight by then!!

Steve