Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Seeds & Soon-To-Be-Sprouts

I may be getting a bit ahead of myself here, but I'm longing for spring and feeling like testing a few boundaries.  Since we have our grow lights in place, happily helping along our greens, some herbs and even a few bush beans, I figured it was worth a little experimentation in tomatoes and peppers as well.


I planted 3 seeds in each little pod of the following:
  • Yellow Taxi Tomatoes
  • Brandywine Tomatoes
  • Roma Tomatoes
  • Bi-Color Cherry Tomatoes
  • Mystery Tomatoes (small, sweet, red, cherry)
  • Green Bell Pepper
  • Jalapeno
  • Mystery Bell Pepper (black outside, green inside, semi-sweet)




Now we just water, wait and see how well they all do...maybe, just maybe, we'll have some fruits earlier in the summer than usual?


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8 comments:

  1. EmilyJanuary 24, 2012 at 9:39 AM

    i think you win the award for earliest nightshades this year! last year i started some seeds on around jan. 29, and continued to do more batches of super-early planting--some of them worked out. i had my first ripe tomatoes in may. this year i'm holding off--the spring gardening bug still hasn't bitten me!

    good luck with your babies. i hope they give you lots of nice early fruit.

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    1. Bee GirlJanuary 24, 2012 at 9:17 PM

      Ha! I'll take that award with a big fat smile ;-) I can totally deal with tomatoes in May if my little seeds decide to give'em to me!

      Hope you get bitten by the gardening bug soon!

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  2. LizJanuary 24, 2012 at 8:35 PM

    I see that you have similar levels of patience to me.....hope it pays off.

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  3. dirtdabblerJanuary 26, 2012 at 6:13 AM

    I love!love! your blog! I recently spent hours traveling down your "rabbit-trail" of subjects and photos. It's amazing and inspiring what you're doing with 1/8th acre. What are your little seed starting pods called? I'd like to find some just like them.

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    1. Bee GirlJanuary 27, 2012 at 11:23 AM

      OH! Thank you so much for finding me!!! I'm glad you're enjoying the journey :-) The pods I used for the peppers & tomatoes were bought as a set called the Jiffy Tomato Greenhouse. You can find them at most garden stores. They also have a shorter version for other seedlings (these are deeper to allow for the crazy tomato roots to take hold).

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  4. Ngo Family FarmJanuary 26, 2012 at 8:18 PM

    Oh, honestly, who can blame you for starting a wee bit early! I'm itching to start some seeds too. Now if only I could finalize my seed catalog order, which needs some drastic narrowing down ;)
    -Jaime

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    1. Bee GirlJanuary 27, 2012 at 11:26 AM

      Seed catalogs! Oh my! Can you believe I have completely ignored them this year? I have avoided them so as not not spend a ton of money on wants instead of needs...and oh my...it's been super hard...it's almost like an addiction!!! This year I just made a list of needs and will buy them locally this year (except for our potatoes, those will come from Seed Savers Exchange).

      Good luck narrowing your list down! If I had it my way, I'd pretty much order everything in the dang catalog ;-)

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