Comments on: Sowing and sprouting: early April

By: Pamela

Pamela — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 06:23:44 +0000

Love your blog. You’re now on my reading list!

By: Jackie

Jackie — Mon, 30 May 2011 00:19:29 +0000

Hey!

I am planning on getting to my garden plot over the next few days to plant some lettuce and other greens. I was wondering if you have any advice on preventing greens from going bitter. Last year after a bit of sun hit my plot my lettuce turned way to bitter to eat, and I ended up composting the lot of it. I was so disappointed! I was hoping to find a suggestion to prevent this from happening this year, and if it requires a cover of some kind, I was wondering if you have any links to good and easy tutorials for shade covers. Thanks!

By: hellaD

hellaD — Fri, 06 May 2011 15:29:18 +0000

I’ve got some hungarian poppies and a strawberry doing very well at the moment. I finally got around to planting some arugala and mache yesterday and thinking about digging up the ground outside my apartment today and planting some more–we’ll see! I love your site!

By: Katy Landscapers

Katy Landscapers — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 09:22:54 +0000

From the picture, your gro-light set up looks fab. Possible indoor point of interest while coaxing your plants to grow despite miserable weather outside. Good post.

By: Ferdi Nel

Ferdi Nel — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 10:14:37 +0000

I like your gro-light setup.

Currently we are also getting a lot of rain which is a bit unusual for autumn. It does make planting winter seedlings very difficult

By: Cindy Of PEI

Cindy Of PEI — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 10:48:51 +0000

Too early for planting here, glad to see your seedlings all coming along so nicely. We are expecting 5 to 10 cm of snow tonight and the clouds look dark. Thought you might be interested in a new site all about the Island http://peiblog.ca/ hope you visit soon.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 21:20:34 +0000

I planted too early too…lots of greens including some chard. Most things are languishing but that mizuna just seems made for the rain and popped right up. Red Russian Kale is drinking it up too.

By: sarah

sarah — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 04:46:14 +0000

about a month ago i planted tomatos and sweet and hot peppers indoors. they are looking pretty happy. had to transplant the tomatos (all 30 of them because they were getting too big… and yes, i will give many away as i can’t imagine the space i would need for all 30!) I went overboard with seeds this year and ordered a bunch from Annie’s Heirloom Seeds. Pretty excited to plant my outdoor garden today- consists of lettuce, beets, carrots, broccoli, peas, beans…i am probably forgeting something… was so happy about the weather we had today. has been cold and rainy here too but today was sunshine and almost warm, a bit on the windy side so did my best to protect the seeds from being blown away. happy gardening!

By: Kath

Kath — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 23:03:57 +0000

The weather has been miserable here in Seattle too; rainy and cold, cold, cold. I hope to get my salad greens planted this weekend. I’m late, but the poor things would have drown before now. I have some tomatoes potted up, but they’ll have to wait a bit…

By: jake

jake — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 19:51:35 +0000

excuse the typo’s…oops