Wednesday, October 27, 2010

More Garlic

The rest of the garlic I planted has now sprouted. In the photo you can see the first one that came up and on the left one of the ones that just appeared recently. They ended up a bit too close together I thought so I tried to pull up the little one to put it in its own pot, but I wasn't able to pull it out. I acquired a couple more pots so I stuck two more cloves in each this evening as well. I love garlic.




No sign yet of anything that appears to be a broccoli head. Here's my tallest plant. You can see the one in the background that was eaten by the caterpillars. The blue/green pot has the last set of carrot seeds I planted.


Speaking of carrots, here is also a photo of the first set of carrots I planted. I don't know how things look underground, but the leaves above ground are growing away.


Lastly, here's a little lettuce I just thought was cute.

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Growing

I transferred three little lettuces to the white tub in the front of the photo. It has no drainage holes, so I'm a little concerned the plants will drown in a good rain. It's supposed to rain some tomorrow, so I put the screen over it to provide some protection. We'll see how that works or if I might need to do a solid cover in a downpour.
More garlic has appeared. Most interestingly, the two cloves from the Trader Joes Colassal Garlic are growing. I had read that some grocery store garlic wouldn't grow because of something it was treated with. So it'll be an interesting experiment to see how it does. It's a better deal than the $10 I spent buying cloves off of thegarlicstore.com. As for those, I have three up now and two no shows.
The carrots also seem to be doing well.

Thursday, October 7, 2010

Garlic!


One of my garlic cloves has sprouted! It's one of the ones I planted after letting it sit in the fridge for two weeks. The ones I didn't do that with haven't appeared yet.

Everything else is looking good too. As you can see in the photo the carrots in the white container are getting bigger. To the right of the carrots is one of the broccoli plants. The teal container has carrot seeds I recently planted. The container next to it and the two in the far back are onions.

Finally, the lettuce is growing as well. The second seed took a little longer to get going but you can see it on the left in the photo.