About this blog

With the generous help of my grandma, I am spending this spring and summer learning how to garden
by plunging in headfirst. This blog is a narrative of my adventures.

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Seedlings?

Today I learned what happens when you don't mark your rows. Being without row markers when I planted my lettuce, spinach, and peas, I blithely assumed that my faulty memory and the disturbed ground would be enough to tell me where everything was.

I went to the garden to see if anything had sprouted and discovered that not only had the rows of uplifted earth settled to look just like the surrounding soil, but also all kinds of random bits of grass and other weeds had begun to sprout, disguising any desirable vegetables that might be growing among them. I know what creeping charlie and dandelions look like, but I don't trust myself to distinguish rouge de grenoblouse lettuce from crab grass.

Several of these guys (at right) were growing in a sort of row-like fashion and look to be the right color, so I'm hoping this is lettuce. I might have seen some spinach too, but that's just a guess. Grandma wasn't home, and I seem to turn as helpless as a beached jellyfish without her, so I'll have to wait until she's around to identify things for certain.

On a more positive note, the peppers and eggplants continue to grow like weeds, but happily, they're not weeds at all.

7 comments:

  1. Hi there - thanks for visiting my personal blog [dlynz.com]. I wanted to invite you to check out GardenStalking.com and hope you will consider becoming a contributor - your posts are interesting and I am sure would be a welcome addition to the site!

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    1. Thank you, Donalyn. I will certainly visit GardenStalking.com. I also wanted to note that I have made it easier to subscribe to my posts by adding an RSS feed subscription bar in the upper right-hand corner of the blog. I am glad you have enjoyed reading them.

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  2. These pictures are kind of washed out because I didn't have my polarizing filter. My next set should be better.

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  3. Congratulations on the new blog, and best of luck with the garden. That sprout in your first photo doesn't look to me like a typical food plant--too leafy too early. But, hey! It's an adventure. I look forward to reading your ongoing reports.

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    1. Cityslipper,
      Thank you for your observation. As you may have read in my next post, I have determined that the sprout is not lettuce. And you're correct, this garden is nothing if it's not an adventure!

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  4. Madeline --
    How is it that you can be planting eggplant seeds in the ground in April in Minnesota? Isn't it way too cold there? I'm in Baltimore and my eggplant seedlings are in the basement under lights on a heating mat! Please visit my gardening blog: www.gardensprite.com.

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    1. Kathryn,
      The eggplants seedlings are growing in a greenhouse right now. Check out the post entitled "Seeds and Strawberry Containers" for a more detailed description. And thank you for the invitation to your blog. I will visit.

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