Ground cherries: more have appeared, and repotted into soil

Wow!  Overnight, a bunch more ground cherries suddenly appeared.  Went ahead and repotted 4 of them.  Hopefully all set for a delicious garden candy harvest!

Garlic has appeared (outside)

Several garlics are poking up out of the ground, now that the snow is all gone from 90% of the yard.

Straw blahs

Bagged up the mass of straw I had set out in the fall.  Won't bother doing that again!

Rosemary repotted into soil

1 ground cherry repotted into soil

So tiny and vulnerable.  Come on, others.... pretty please!

Tomatoes repotted into soil

3 or 4 each of BS and Sweetie.

Ground cherry have appeared

But only 1 up so far, with another on its way.  Hope a lot more will be up soon.

Rosemary has appeared!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wow!  Only 5 weeks to germination.  Finally!  But, only 2 so far :D

Tomatoes have appeared

BF and sweetie.

Ground cherry sowed

A sprinkling of ~12 seeds, bought from Telsing.

SO excited for this one!  These things are like candy -- better than candy!  Hope to have several plants.  Last year's singleton (bought as a transplant) had a meager harvest likely due to being totally shaded out from being put in a bad location.

Tomatoes sowed (Sweetie and Beefsteak)

5 of each but only planning to plant 1 of each.

(Chose a different cherry tomato this year, Sweetie, because Tiny Tim was a Gigantic disappointment last year with such a puny harvest.  The Tiny Tim I had bought at the store the year before gave much better harvest.)

Swiss chard repotted into soil

12 plants total.  Some are still seed-bound and several don't look at that healthy yet.  May call for a second sowing, will decide in a week or so after I see how this batch is looking.

Peppers repotted into soil

2 of the collected seeds peppers
+ 4 of the bought seeds peppers
repotted into soil today.

Peppers have appeared (the collected seeds)

3 peppers from the seeds I collected last year have appeared.

Peppers have appeared (the bought seeds)

3 of the bought peppers have appeared.  No sign yet from the seeds I saved from one of last year's plants.

Sowed chard

3 joined pots in vermiculite, each with 4 seeds.

Chard is one of my all-time favourite things to have in the garden!

==> continual harvest all season long, from earliest spring, through hottest summer, to last days of fall

==> easy to grow, targeted by few insects (so far all I've had to deal with are slugs, easy to rehome them)

==> takes up hardly any space, nice and compact

==> versatile in the kitchen:  raw as salad, add to stir-fries, great in soups

==> easy to freeze, don't even have to blanch

Hoping for another great long harvest of chard this year.

Rosemary nowhere to be seen

The rosemary sowed on Feb 18th is still nowhere to be seen.  I guess it's true what they say!

Kale repotted into soil

6 pots, with 2 kale sproutlings each.  Will thin later.

Celery -- more appeared, and, repotted all into soil

Many more of the celery sprouts appeared a few days ago.

Transplanted 8 of them, into 4 pots -- will thin to 1 per pot later.

Will be a total of 8 celery at the end of the day, if they all make it.

Asparagus sending up new shoots

Several of the asparagus now have second shoots coming up.  Very cute.

Tuberous begonia has appeared!

The bigger of the two tubers has appeared!

Kale has appeared!

Wow, that was fast!  Sowed Sunday, appeared Tuesday.  And actually they may have appeared yesterday, as they were a surprise this evening and already a cm or two high.

Kale sowed

Sowed 14 kale seeds in a tub of used vermiculite.

Peppers sowed

Sowed 9 of the seeds I saved last year as a test,
and
sowed 9 of the other seeds.

All in two tubs of re-used vermiculite...  which in itself will also be a test.

Celery has appeared!

Celery has appeared!  Only 4 or 5 so far though.  Hoping more will come along soon.

That's 11 days for germination.

Didn't keep good stats last year to compare with no heat mat.

Parsley has appeared!

Two parslettes have appeared.  Removed tub from heat mat and put it under lights.