This morning I looked at the seedlings growing under the lights. The lettuce is almost large enough to start harvesting leaves. The morning glories are growing up into the lights and wrapping around each other (we will start these later next year). The asparagus is about 5 inches tall and still in the original vermiculite containers. We will have to get busy this evening transplanting. The weatherman is calling for rain and snow tomorrow and gusts up to 37 mph so we probably won't be working much outside, but maybe we can build three more garden frames inside. Sunday is looking much more promising, mostly sunny with a high near 52.
My youngest daughter was curious how the morning glories find something to grab onto as they grow. Last weekend, we found a couple of good examples of time-lapse photography on YouTube:
Time-lapse Morning Glory
Time-lapse Pea
Friday, April 3, 2009
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By June the Southtownsgardener and assistant may be all tangled up by morning glory tendrils. Help, help! One is wrapping around my ear, now one has pulled me by the ankle!
ReplyDeleteI love reading your detailed plans. My friend, Camille is in charge of our garden plans. She, too, has lights set up in her apartment downstairs in this house. We are colder than you so aren't braving the freezing weather. Expecting more snow tonight.
We also are subscribed to a CSA, Community Supported Agriculture from Grant Farms in Wellington, Colorado. They will deliver to our house once a week from June thru November. The 'personal' delivery is not that personal. For a 50% discount we will be a pick up location for many families this year.
The only drawback is having to clean out the garage in order to house the boxes of goodies on pick up day.
DeAnne, glad to hear you are a fellow gardener! I am not so sure that you are colder out there in CO, it is snowing here right now. I read the "Four Season Harvest" by Eliot Coleman this Winter and it has greatly expanded my expectations for growing veggies all year around, even in snowy Buffalo.
ReplyDeleteYou got a great deal on the CSA.
Love your writing! It always leaves me laughing and smiling :)