Flower seed sowin

Threw out a bunch of seeds into the cold rainy night

poppies (multiple types)
nicotiana
love in a mist
heliopsis
coreopsis
star of the veld
some yellow thing I found near where the prarie dogs live.
Miss Willmott's Ghost(Eryngium giganteum)

wonder if any will grow...

Carrots

23 varieties of carrots planted last night. See if I can do it from memory:

berlicum
japanese imperial
scarlet nantes
rothild
amarillo
jaume du daub
vert et blanche
white satin
purple haze
purple dragon
red samurai
Tonda di Parigi
red-core chanteney
1/2 long danvers
danvers
oxheart
atomic red
yellowstone
nantaise
st. valery
Shin Kuroda 5 inch
rodelika
solar yellow

Planted earlier and sprouted--took forever 3-4 weeks.
Amsterdam #2

lettuce & more spinach

Added some Erste Ernte and Bloomsdale last night.

Also added 12 lettuces. Most of them new red lettuces for this year, but also finished off a bunch of old seed. Don't expect much germination from those.

Tonight--carrots (25 varieties).

Now if we can get the big storm projected for Friday, I won't have to water any of this in.

I can hope can't I?

Latest Planting

Planted arugala, green streaks mustard, parsnip, caraway, cilantro (delfino and plain), dill, and new purple cabbage called Marner Lagerrot. We'll see if I can keep the flea beetles from stunting it...

neuSpring

Well into it.

Outside I have sprouted peas, spinach, lettuce, mache, radishes and a few amsterdam #2 carrots from last fall.

Seeded beets two nights ago. Raab and parsnip last night.

Grumolo type radicchio, red endive(which I never dug up) spinach, celery, kale, parsley all wintered over.
Volunteers include orach, yellow streaks mustard, some carrot.

Hardening off pansies, Fennel, stonecress(aubrietta).

Inside 56 pepper plants--7 to kezia yesterday-6 more to give away. 10 1/2 trays of flowers and herbs. Tomatos are in little 6 packets. Experimental in that I'll have to replant. Not sure whether they'll root out in time.

Bought 2 new lights and light bulbs so I can expand a little more.

Still to plant are the summer flowers--dahlia's, zinnias and the like. Cucumbers, Melons and Squash, and then the final planting for late summer of lettuces and escaroles radicchios etc.

Maybe, just maybe, got Phormium to sprout. Typical delphiniums didn't. Lots of whites for side bed and yellows for sandbox bed. Reds for U-bed. Penstemons have sprouted in most cases--but not to many. Looks like prince's plume just came up and I've got 4 crazy tall hibiscus. Done a fair amount of transplanting and thinning. Good work ethic thus far.

always a mixture of success and failure this time of the year.