January 31, 2010

Yes!  It's dirt under the fingernails time again!  The onion seeds have been planted and are now sitting pretty on grow mats under lights.  This is my first time planting onion from seed, I've always bought plants before.  Half went into a 50/50 mix of perlite and peat and half went into a 40/40/20 mix of perlite/peat/farm soil.  We'll see what comes up.  I sure do hope they end up looking as nice as the ones pictured above!

All the seeds are in, minus a few on backorder.  All I have to do now is wait until the time is right to start them.

Went way overboard on tomatoes – no surprise there…but with names like Zapotec Pleated, Orange Strawberry, Purple Smudge, Persimmon, Pink Grapefruit, Martian Giant, Aunt Ruby’s German Green and so on – what’s a tomato junkie to do?

Also trying artichokes this year – there is a variety that can bear in one year – an annual up here in the not always frozen North – unless maybe I can grow one in a big pot and overwinter it, hmm…