The tomatoes I started under grow lights a few weeks ago need to be thinned. I think it’s my least favorite part about starting seeds at home. Since I don’t want to damage the roots, I’ll take a pair of scissors to the all but one of the tall stalks in each seedling square.
Poor little tomato plants… if they only knew what was coming.
Have you started your spring lettuce indoors yet? This is my second crop. 🙂 🙂
Oh Lemon! Her little fruits look like Key limes right now but I’m hopeful that in a few more weeks they’ll turn a nice lemony yellow color and I’ll get to pick them. I have high hopes of making a batch of homemade lemon curd. *Fingers crossed*
Yesterday, I dug through my seed packets and pulled out the flowers I’ll be growing this year. Normally I like to buy a flat or two of annuals for the front flower beds, but it adds up. So this year I’ve decided to grow all my own flowers for the beds out front.
We have a nice boxwood hedge in front of the house that will make perfect backdrop for some snapdragons {late spring} and pansies {late fall}. I’ll add the coleus in my flower pots, the marigolds in the vegetable garden and everything else will get planted in the {soon to be} cottage garden alongside the house.
Spring, let’s do this!
~Mavis
Mary from Chattanooga says
We’ve been busy this morning!
HH picked up a truckload of compost, filled the new raised beds, planted lettuce, spinach and two rosemary plants.
I started beets, party pan squash, my grandmother’s tomatoes, coleus and marigolds.
All of those are in our little greenhouse for the day, back inside at night for a few more days!
Thanks for being such an inspiration, Mavis!
I’ll send you some of my grandmother’s tomato seeds of you would like to have some big lots of meat juicy tomatoes later in the fall!
Rebecca W says
I usually buy my annuals also, but decided this year I am growing them from seed (Marigold Lemon Gem for the vegetable garden). I also bought some perennial seeds (Rudbeckia Goldstrum and Johnny Jump Up Helen Mt).
Amanda says
Have you heard of the dense planting method? You don’t have to get rid of any seedlings. If you don’t need them all give them to friends/neighbors, sell them, etc.