Spinach, Pea, Radish, and Celery Seeds Into the Ground

This week is supposed to be cool, but with high enough temperatures that I can start planting most of my cool weather seeds.  I still have to plant the last of my seed potatoes and transplant my lettuce into the garden, but getting these four seeds into the garden is a big chunk of the cool weather season.

I have been putting my lettuce outside to harden them to the cooler temperatures, but I am still going to wait a little bit before keeping them overnight for now.  I would say by the beginning of April they will be transplanted into the garden.

Even though my lettuce plants are not ready for transplanting I did dig holes for them when the time is right for transplanting.  This makes less work for me later on when it is time for them to go into their final growing spot.  Getting as much as possible done ahead of time will be much better in the long run.

As with my potatoes I do have a few that are in the garden and hopefully will begin to sprout real soon.  I have about a dozen or so left to be planted into the ground.  I would have done it today, but I ran out of time to plant the last of them.  If the weather is good tomorrow I will plant the rest of them as soon as possible.

I gave each seed half of a row since these are quite long rows I didn’t have enough seeds to give them a row to themselves.  They each have about fifteen feet of growing room which should be plenty to get as many plants as possible from all of them.

As you can see the rows are not very straight.  As long as the seeds sprout I am not that concerned with the straightness of the rows.

I also did some thinning of plants that were growing indoors including my cucumber pickles.  They have grown real fast in just a short amount of time.  The other seeds that are in peat pots have just recently began to sprout while my pickle cucumbers have up to four leaves already.

Melon Sprouts

Eggplant Sprouts