Plant Progress and Some More Alyssum Added

I want to share with you some of the progress that I have been having with my plants and some that I have added in order to maximize my time.

So far my plants are doing really good and it will soon be time to leave them out overnight and then into the garden soil they will go soon after.  Right now during warm days I have been placing them outside on a table that can hold much of my early plantings.

I also added some more flowers to addition to the ones that I started growing a month ago.  Alyssum is one of those flowers that I love to grow as much as possible because of the numerous beneficial insects it attracts.  Bees love them lady beetles, flower flies, hover flies, and so much more.

It is one of the best types of flyers that is simple to grow and continuously flowers all season long with very little work.  The more that I grow the better chance that I will have much help from these incredible insects.

Next to feverfew that grows perennially, alyssum is the next best insect attracting flower.  Put these two together and with some time I am sure that you will get insects you never thought you would get.

I used spinach containers again for these flowers because for some reason they love growing close together.  If you supply them with good soil such as Scott’s Organic Humus and Manure they will sprout very quickly and be a great addition to your collection.

You can even see some of them sprouting already when I just planted them three days ago.

I used three containers and placed them under the fluorescent lights during the night and in the sun during the day.  This is a great way to get them sprouting even faster and hardening off will not be necessary as long as you place them outside while they are in the seed sprouting stage.

Check out the latest on the progress of my plants below.

1. Pumpkin and Zucchinin Plants

2. Statice and Calendula in the Pots on the left.  Dill in the large plastic container above and Queene Annes lace below.  It looks like I will have to plant more Queene Annes lace since not many seeds sprouted.  This is one plant that gives me a hard time each year.

3. Peppers are in the top left peat pots, cucumbers in the bottom left, and watermelon on the right.  They are doing good and they will be a breeze to transplant since I can just put the pot in the soil and the pot will decompose.

4. Here you can easily point out the Alyssum which are in the large plastic containers and in the others you have a couple cherry tomatoes, cantaloupe, and pumpkins.

5. Calendula, Amaranthus, and Cosmos.

6. Eggplant, Tomatoes, and one Cosmos plant.

7. Here are the Sunflowers, Tomatoes, and Cantaloupe.

8. Last but not least is the spinach that is almost ready to be picked.  I would give it a couple of more days because I love large spinach leaves and I need to give them some lime along with fish emulsion to keep them growing dark green and tasty leaves.

At the moment my onions are not sprouting quite yet, but in another week or so they should start growing the stems that will grow until the weather gets to hot for them.  Look for the post that shows their progress soon.