The great Seed starting adventure continues

Ok, it's been a while. The kids played outside last weekend while Jim and I finished up the landscape and moved the plants around.

We think that Evie inherited the 4 leaf clover finding gene from Great Grandpa Wagner. She found 3 4-leaf clovers and 2 5-leaf clovers in the backyard under the swing set. I personally have never found a single one, so I guess it skips a couple of generations.

While Evie and Jim were at soccer, Annalise and I brought the plants upstairs and started to harden them off outside. It was a drizzly day so she needed her umbrella.

My little seedlings. The stuff in the egg cartons are zinnias that the girls planted. From left to right, we have broccoli and basil, tomatoes and cilantro, tomatoes, zinnias, and then the flat of squash that I am growing for master gardener's vegetable plot demo bed.

To give you an idea of my lack of skill, on the left are my 2 month old broccoli plants and on the right are 6 broccoli plants that I bought at Menards for 50 cents. Hmmm, was my experiment worth it for the lamps, time, seed, and energy? time will tell. I planted the Menard's broccoli in the garden and it already has broccoli heads. My plants will probably be ready to plant in the fall. I guess we will have an extended season. I hope the tomatoes do better. Since they have been outside, they are growing faster. Fertilizing every week helps too. They still don't measure up to Menard's plants, but I'm not losing my faith in my 52 tomatoes.