Garden Update

After my last post about the garden my back was a mess and the weather was rainy. So not much was accomplished over the past week. Well my back is now better but the weather is still wet. In spite of that, I managed to nip out for some pictures today.

Note:  Excuse the blurriness, it seems I had a problem with the camera focus and didn’t realize it.

Here are the broccoli, romaine and mixed lettuce starts we bought.  They are all doing well and thriving.

 

  We have germination of some of our seed mats.  I think this square is either turnip or chard.  I did see lettuce and kohlrabi sprouts too.

 

Some of Eric’s direct sown peas are coming up too – Sugar snap and Oregon Giant.  The one variety: Sugar Ann doesn’t look like it’s germinating.  Those seeds are old and I remember having germination problems with them last year.  I’ll take a sample of them tomorrow and do a germination test.  If any are viable I’ll replant the area out in the garden.

Here are our rhubarb plants.  I was worried when I planted them because when I pulled them out of their pots all the soil fell off the roots so they were planted in 100% compost.  So far they look good.

 

Here is a few pictures of our winter sown starts.  I’m disappointed in their germination this year.  I think it was because we had such wonky weather this winter/spring.  The past 2 years there was a higher germination rate by now, plus the seedlings were bigger.  I’m not giving up hope though, stuff is still germinating every day so it’s not a loss yet.