Fresh Salad

I pulled my one large lettuce plant today. It's not exactly a tight head, but with having all the plants crammed inside the house trying to get light from the windows I decided to go ahead and eat it. Delicious!

Little Carrots

I pulled a few carrots from the square, white, plastic pot. They were smaller than the ones I've pulled out of the clay pot. I'm pretty sure I planted them at the same time so I don't know why they aren't growing as well.

Here are both pots and the tub of lettuce sitting on the kitchen floor:

Carrot Number Two!

Ta Da! Here's my second carrot. 5 and 1/4 inches long. It's supposed to snow tonight. I hauled one of the pots of carrots and the tub of lettuce inside. The others are all still out there, covered in a tarp. I'm hoping for the best.

Brrrr

It was 27 degrees outside when I got up this morning. I didn't realize the temperature was going to drop so low last night. I hadn't done anything with the plants and the leaves had frost on them. At least the top layer of soil in the pots outside the screen cage was frozen, but the pots inside the cage seemed to have stayed a bit warmer all huddled in there together. I drug some of them inside to thaw out and then put them back outside when the sun had warmed things up some. You can see the big broccoli leaves got a bit droopy. That's garlic in the front middle and the lettuce in the front right.

I hope the soil didn't freeze so much as to damage the carrots. They look good on top. Perhaps I should pull one up and check on them.

The little lettuces didn't get a lot of growth before this freezing weather has hit. I know they're supposed to like cool weather, but I don't know how they're going to do in the flat out cold.

Awww.. My First Carrot

I decided to pull up a carrot today to see how big they were and because some of them are crowded in a bit. It's a tiny little thing, but they're definitely growing. And delicious- I'm munching on it as I type this.

The broccoli is looking better although there's still no sign of a head. Most of the onions, at least from above ground, appear to be doing exactly nothing. Some of the garlic leaves are looking a little sad, but they're all sprouting away. Two out of the four I planted last have just broken the surface of the dirt. The first lettuce I planted is growing away. The others are still pretty small.

Purple Broccoli Leaves

My broccoli plants seem to be having some issues. The littlest one all but one leaf has turned purplish and the new leaves on the larger ones have done the same thing. I put some additional fertilizer on them this morning. Maybe that will help.

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.