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well i couldnt wait any longer.
so the last couple of days i made a start.
1 tray tomato
2 trays cabbage
2 trays leek
1 tray sweet peppers
2 1/2 trays lettuce
2 trays rudbeckia
2 trays alyssum
4 trays lobelia
2 trays petunia
1 tray sweet pea
so thats my early ones started, second batch i will start next week.
Mark.

What? No brussel sprouts? Kinda' ironic...cuz I named my sprouts "Mark".

See, there's 2 of you, Mark #1 and Mark #2

no sprouts yet christina,
nice name for a sprout!!!
now im just gonna have to name my cabbages??
christina,

I'd rather be a sweet pea.

O.K scratch the cabbages.
how about highly scented sweet pea christina
Mark.

I didn't see any leek seeds when I was out looking around. I'll have to wear my glasses next time. I was happy to just find the scallions.

Yep I'm getting as much planted as I can so I have room to harden off the rest so I can begin planting the seeds that require warmer weather before I transplant. I've learned from trial and error that the celosia really prefer it warm so they aren't going out until at least mid april.

Tomorrow after church I'll probably take the morning glories out to start hardening off. They are alittle young but the weather is really good for the next couple of days according to the forcast and I want to take advantage of that while I can. And the morning glories are so hardy I think I can get away with it.

I am gonna start the hardening off process for my Hyacinth Bean Vine. They are getting really big so they will move from under the lights, to the livingroom windows. Lots of sun all day but still the warmth of the house. Then I will have room for the next batch of seedlings under the lights.

My hycinthia bean vines are just breaking ground. I'm really excited about them. I've never grown anything like them so this is going to be great. I plan to try and keep them indoors as long as possible just to see if I might be able to over winter them. Since it worked for the portulaca's now I want to try it with all of the tropicals lol.

Hi all! I'm back! (went to boston for the weekend)--and all of my seedlings survived. I think I made my sister in law so nervous--when I talked to her at one point over the weekend, the first thing she said to me was that the plants were alive-lol! I actually had several sprouts-the Torenia sprouted 2, I got 2 tomatoes, 2 broccoli, 2 onions, a couple of purple aranthanea (sp?), a couple of mums, and 1/2 of my pot marigolds. Oh ya, and before i left, not only did my coleus all sprout, but I saw some daff sprouts in the corner of my new front bed. The area used to be dark, damp, no color, all overgrown bushes. It's so exciting to see some new life there, especially knowing that it signals color soon ahead! Anyway-sounds like everyone is coming along well! Keep up the good work all!

I have a question for those of you who are starting seeds.

Do you have little Breakfast Bats flying around your starter trays? There are these little fruit fly things hanging out under my Grow lights & I don't know where they came from, or if they've got ideas about snacking on my seedlings when they poke their heads through!

Well I have tomato seedlings...And have started seeds for the rest of my tomatoes, peppers and a few other things. I forgot to take pictures of the shelves full of seed starting trays..will get it tomorrow and add it to the other pictures in the album. If you want to look at my make shift plant room and seedlings go here

I get the gnats too. I'm not sure where they come from. I haven't seen any damage to my plants yet.

I put the morning glories into the container today. I hope most of them survive. After they get alittle longer I'll add the trellis and then intertwine them. Hopefully it will work the way I want them too. All I can do is cross my fingers.

Well I started the cleomes today. All three colors: white, pink and purple. And of course I have leftovers lol.

Patty, I have not seen any buggers flying around in the house or around my trays.

Woohoo, I got the miniature snapdragons out in their flower bed and most of the rest of the malva planted on the shady slope and the petunias out in the containers and all in time to see if they can withstand nighttime temperatures of 36*F. My landlord asked me if the larkspur I planted was a weed. It certainly looks like one. Hopefully I didn't trade for weed seeds. That would make me look really foolish wouldn't it? But as I told him if we don't like those I've got another 170 varieties of seeds to try lol. We are bound to find something that we can agree on lol.

I forgot to mention that all of the crocuses are in bloom and I have my first daffodin bud. So they are next I believe. And then the tulips.

I have two tulips that ended up in the middle of a mass of mums that I didn't get to cut down last year. Getting to them is going to be an adventure I guess. They are in a hard to get place so I'm not sure how I'm going to pull this off but I'll think of something I hope lol.

Well I got out there and guess what...there are a whole bunch of bulbs in that area. I have no idea what they are but there are quite a few so I should have something sometime in the future lol.

I also got out in the glad bed and sprinkled the chinese house seeds around and gave them a good watering in. Hopefully something will happen. If not I do have more seeds lol.

So it's been a very busy day I guess. Hopefully I'll have a bunch more rain and everything will settle in and do some growing.

hi tk.

its so exciting to see little ones coming up isnt it, i still have mine inside but it was nice on the weekend and did a little raking and i have crocus's and hyacinth's coming up, which surprises me because when they were planted in the fall i thought the squirrels took them all, so it was a nice surprise to see them

I'm glad they were still there for you. I think I may have to think about adding some hycinthia to my bulb bed. That would be really cool. I love having early bloomers.

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="COMIC SANS MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="3" face="COMIC SANS MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by markr:
<strong> no sprouts yet christina,
nice name for a sprout!!!
now im just gonna have to name my cabbages??
christina,

Tammy, it's been great reading your threads,
you're a blooming gardener... and it's wonderful
to hear about all of your success's so far...
You've got soooooooo many plants going..
I can not wait to see pictures when everything
gets planted and fills in..

Rozy, you too, I love seeing your pictures..

Loz, yours are lookin' good.. how many more weeks before planting time..
you'll be havin' nasturiums down to the floor by the time comes to
put them out side,
and you'll have instant flowers on them...
I love those flowers, very prolific and the honey bees love them...
(ps you can eat them with cream cheese and chives or garlic
or the likes of stuff, they're edible)

Triss, you're are lookin' good too..

I wish I could start mine, I still have a number of weeks away..
*still looking for a heater*
waaaaaaaaaa..

Keep up the good work everyone...
I'm living vicariously thru your seedlings..

Thanks for sharing all the great pictures and stories...

I know...they really will be down to the floor before too long! I'm hoping to move most of my plants out to the plastic greenhouse thing by the end of this month....they are all growing beautifully.

Hi all! Could the little flying buggers be springtails? I know they like it in moist areas. I forget how to get rid of them, but I don't think they do much harm.
Everything's looking good for my babies. Everything is sprouting nicely except for the onamental banana tree-does anyone know anything about those things?
I looked at my front bed this morning and there are crocuses and daffs popping up all over the place. I have to dig up a before pic and then do an "after" pic for you guys to really appreciate this (don't know if you remember-we were painting the house last year and ripped EVERYTHING out).
The only seedlings that I'm a little disappointed in are my poor pot marigolds. Alot of them sprouted when I was away over the weekend, but the cover was left on and I think several of them "dampened off".
TK-you are so ambitious! And it sounds like your landlord is getting into this right along with you. Wasn't he a little reluctant last year?
They're calling for temps down in the 30s again later this week (daytime), so it will be a while before I get anything out Keep posting all these pics to keep us northerners inspired!

well i like a challenge!!
so here goes!
ive named my two trays of leeks.
WEEZIE'S
cant wait for them to germinate

lol@markr you do like to live dangerously don't you? lol.

Well I decided that I wanted some bellflowers so they are now in my pretty new planter. I don't know what color they are but it's going to be great.

And the other new planter got a dwarf crepe mrytle. It's been a busy day I guess. I'll probably be planting more tomorrow. Where I'll put them I'm not sure but I'll find someplace lol.

He surrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrre does, doesn't he???


No, that's funny, WEEZIE LEEKS...
hahahahaha..

Now who's he gonna name the beets' after.

(and the lettuce...
could call it a "Honeymoon salad,
Let us alone, without dressing )
(get it, let us = lettuce)

okay, getting carried away...

You all are so funny!!! See what you started Christina, name that veggie....LOL

Laughing here!!!