Steady on

This is a quieter week in terms of activity to write about on the veggie front.  Many of the varieties have been in the soil for a month now - seedlings all over the place.  The earliest to plant are the varieties that need the most development prior to being set out in the field or cold frame, such as tomatoes, peppers, onions, lemon grass.  A few other things that I have started are lettuce, cabbage and of course, the carrots have been set out to seed this week in the experimental heated planting bed (see last week's post).

With regard to the heated bed, I have experienced some minor setbacks with the heat source (furnace) being the culprit 3 out of 4 times - the other time was my own fault, forgetting to check on the fire and it went out.  I have been tracking and recording temperatures several times daily, so I will be able to plot results in a more visible graph method.  So while not too much vegetable activity is required, we have been doing spring cleanup in the yard - deadfall and firewood cleanup, last year's pots and such that didn't make the trip back to storage...all the usual things you would find after winter.

Here are a few photos of the seedlings - a glimmer of hope that summer is coming!