Friday, March 27, 2009

March seedlings

I planted some lettuce and arugula seeds just under two weeks ago and they seem to have taken. The cold frame is doing its job - even with sub-freezing night temperatures all week. YAY!

(that's my flash drive in the photos for scale)

Lettuce:


Arugula:

(I think I'll need to thin the arugula at some point)

No signs of carrot or Swiss chard though, even with the temporary plastic cover I put on the other cold frame :( (though I don't really expect to see carrot seedlings for a while - they're notorious for taking a long time to germinate)

2 comments:

Doug Taron said...

I was thinking of planting lettuce out in the garden this weekend. The 6" of snow we got on Sunday dissuaded me.

Jim Lemire said...

Doug - I bet you would have been OK (or maybe you were dissuaded by the thought of youbeing out in the snow?) I'd try getting the seeds in soon - I imagine the snow is already gone?