January 6 RAIN.
January 8 RAIN.
January 9 SUNNY.
Sowed seeds for:
►Tomatoes. #Sioux, #Kellogg's Breakfast, and a NOID. The NOID is a red cherry tomato with purple shoulders.
►Beets. #Detroit Dark Red and #Bull's Blood
►Peppers. Sweet Bell Peppers, Rainbow Mix (Darcy's seeds)
►Peppers. Cayenne Peppers (MIgardener's seeds)
LINK: Sioux Tomato http://davesgarden.com/communi...
January 12 SUNNY.
►Beets. Harvested a few from raised bed (RB) #2.
►Broccoli. Fed 25 #Arcadia Broccoli plants with Mittleider Weekly Feed.
LINK: Arcadia Brocc http://www.territorialseed.com...
ARCADIA BROCCOLI, January 7, 2013
►Peppers. Discovered two Jalapenos on the plant from last spring! Fed & watered. It might just come back altogether!
►Carrots. Sowed seeds for #New Kuroda & #Kuroda Long carrots (Kitazawa Seeds) in containers. Two of each.
LINK: New Kuroda carrot http://www.kitazawaseed.com/se...
January 14 SUNNY.
The Kellogg's Breakfast, Sioux, and NOID tomatoes are all up. Pulled them from the baggies, and shoved them under the lights.
January 15 SUNNY.
Beets are UP, UP, UP!!! They probably came up Wednesday night -- 4 days from sowing.
BEETS
BEETS
SIOUX tomatoes up on day #6 from sowing.
January 19 The MLK weekend has been absolutely glorious!
Fed and watered everything in the garden. Arcadia broccoli looking great! Harvested all the remaining beets, leaving just the Vardaman sweetie volunteers in RB #2. Uncovered RB #1 & turned the soil, to capture the rain we're expecting. Once the bed is fully watered, I'll decide what to sow next.
Threw some Weekly Feed into all the Earthboxes (EBs). Collards getting bigger. Spinach and Bok Choy look a little anemic. Hope the feed helps.
January 20 Today was overcast.
The Kellogg's Breakfast, Sioux, and NOID tomatoes were all up by last Thursday. Have only bottom-watered them once. Withholding watering the tomato seedlings further, until they swoon, to force them to send down deep roots. They are already throwing a first, true leaf.
Have been watering the beets daily with Mittleider Constant Comfort formula. They are all standing straight up.
Uncovered the carrots. Forgot they need light to germinate...
January 21 Today was Sunny, but very blustery. Temps are dropping to 37° tonight.
►Hoops have been blown off of three raised beds. Need to secure them before the squirrels and moths discover the way in...
►Seriously considering sowing #Contender green beans and #Sugar snap peas in RB #1, under a DOUBLE hoop. Since the bed is 4' wide, I can use the mini greenhouses to make two parallel low tunnels over the seeds, then cover the entire bed with the perforated plastic hoop. Should get pretty toasty under there, and the perforations will provide air circulation ... Hmmmmmmm...
►The tomatoes are growing fast under the lights, and are beefing up nicely (especially the #Sioux). Will work on separating them into individual cells tomorrow.
►The #beets are tall, w/o being "leggy." Need to separate them, too. There are a LOT, but, hey, I like beets, LOL!
January 25 Overcast.
►Did a walkabout, and re-affixed the hoop covers that had been blown off. Discovered three broccoli buttons!
►#Carrots are a total bust. Not one seedling is up. All fresh seeds, so, user error. I inadvertently rotted them with the watering & covering.. still time to sow another batch.
►#Meyer Improved Lemon tree is covered with tiny fingernail-size fruits, finally, in year #2. Didn't know citrus grows in the cool, and messed up its growing cycle by protecting it in the dark garage all last winter, LOL! It was covered with blooms and totally confused when I brought it out into the WARM spring. It promptly dropped all those blooms, and not one fruit set...
►#Collards, #Spinach, and #Bok Choy in the EBs have doubled in size since the temps dipped. And, no more anemia since I fed them.
January 26 Overcast.
Potted up Kellogg's Breakfast seedlings to 12 oz. individual cups. These'll stay under the lights for two more weeks. Then, they go onto the patio for hardening off for 4 days. Targeted transplant into the garden is weekend of February 13th, under hoops for frost protection.
KELLOGG'S BREAKFAST TOMATO SEEDLINGS at 17 days from sowing
These seedlings have been watered once, after they declared. They have been FED twice with Mittleider Constant Comfort daily seedling feed. I withheld the daily feeding, to encourage the roots to go deeper. They are 4" at potting up time.
January 27 Harvested FRESH Kale for the first time. Cooked FRESH Kale for the first time. Ate FRESH Kale for the first time. LIKED fresh cooked Kale, for the first time! Amazing what growing your own food will do for your taste buds...^ 
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KALE, Dwarf Blue Curled
January 30 - Gorgeous weather today.
Fed and watered everything in the garden. Found more broccoli buttons.
Tomato and Beet seedlings looking good under the lights.
KELLOGG'S BREAKFAST
SIOUX
NOID Seedling
DETROIT DARK RED BEET
[BULL'S BLOOD BEET
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