Jack and Rachael’s Plant Adventure

Day 9:

Today (well technically last night) the pea seedlings decided to make an appearance. Last night the pea in position 8 of tray 3 appeared at the surface of the dirt. It was barely distinguishable from the little white parts of the dirt but it was there. Today it looks like a little crooked arm poking out of the dirt. This morning there was also a seedling poking out of position 10 in the same tray. It was about where the seedling in 8 had been last night. Here are some pictures of the pea seedlings! The first is the seedling that I found last night in the mini pot 8 and the others are how 8 and 10 look today.









Check out the pictures of the pumpkins, they look a lot different than they did yesterday. The ones that were under just a mound of dirt are now out of the dirt and the other two are starting to stand up tall. Their leaves are spreading apart and they are shooting upward. One of them reminds me of the plant in Little Shop of Horrors, weird I know, but it is cute.









The lettuce and corn are still growing like mad too. Most of the leaves on the lettuce have separated now and Jack and I are discussing what exactly we are going to do with all the lettuce seedlings. They all aren’t going to be able to grow in the tiny container and since lettuce is the plant we expect to harvest first (around May 12 is 45 days from the day we planted them) we have to find somewhere to put them soon. The corn is starting to send up a stalk from the inside of the initial stalks. It looks pretty cool and sort of reminds me of bamboo in a weird round about way. Check out how much they have grown:





The potatoes and garlic are also growing quite well. Potato one is HUGE! Check them out:



While Jack and I were at the store yesterday I found PINK gardening supplies. I picked out three of them a trowel, hand rake and garden sheers. I am pretty excited about them. I asked Jack if he wanted some blue ones for himself but he didn’t. His loss We also picked out a 3 pack of herbs, parsley, chives and sweet basil. I have no idea if they will grow since they were in the $1 section of Target but it’s worth a try. We also got two metal containers, one a bucket style and one window box. I want to put the herbs in the window box. If they don’t grow I can always plant something new in the window box. Maybe Jack will want to plant some of the flower seeds he bought off of eBay.

That’s all the updates for today. I am probably going to plant the herbs sometime tonight so maybe by tomorrow I will have some pictures of my new window box. I am glad to see that the seeds that we have planted are actually growing. I was a little concerned that everything I planted was going to die and not grow. I can’t exactly bring an entire garden home to Gram with her green thumb for help :O I bet she would like me to bring home veggies and fruits though

I hope that the tomato plants decide to pop up next. I LOVE tomatoes!!

Day 5:

Last night I was telling Jack I wanted our plants to be growing now. He laughed at me and told me that I would have to wait. Waiting has never been my strong suit. I don’t know why I thought it would be a good idea to plant seeds and wait for them to grow Most of the seed packets said that seedlings would emerge in 7 to 10 days. 7 TO 10 DAYS!!  Any other time and 7 to 10 days would FLY by and I would barely even notice but this week is CRAWLING! It seems like it has been forever and it has only been 5 days. How could it only be 5 days? That was what I was thinking when I went into the kitchen earlier today. I wanted to make sure that all the plants were still safe. The kitchen can be a dangerous place for plant and human alike. I didn’t expect to see anything growing but being as impatient as I am, I just had to check. I started with checking trays one and two then trays three and four on the other windowsill. None of the trays had anything emerge and I probably looked crazy when I told them they were good little plants and that they should grow soon. Then I turned to check the lettuce that was sitting on the radiator (don’t worry it has been turned off for a while now) next to me. I never expected this next part though…


THE LETTUCE IS GROWING!!

There are tiny seedlings poking out of the surface of the dirt. I counted them and I see about 15 of them. Clearly Jack has a green thumb, he planted the lettuce after all. We didn’t expect to see anything until next week and these little seedlings have emerged 2-5 days earlier than we expected them. Apparently these little lettuce seedlings heard my impatience and decided to visit early. On the back of the seed packet it says that in about 45 days we can expect our first harvest. If the lettuce keeps growing at this pace we could have our own freshly grown lettuce in just 40 days!

Here are some pictures of the seedlings:









I think that they are cute little seedlings. Some of them even still have some of the outer seed shell stuck to them like a baby chick that has hatched. They have little green sprouts and tiny stalks. I can’t wait to see how much they will grow by this time tomorrow. They range in height from barely measurable to 7/8 of an inch. As I type they are in my windowsill enjoying the sunny weather. The potatoes and garlic are in my other window enjoying the spring rays. They are also growing quite well and I think they are enjoying their new home, the tallest potato plant is 13 inches.

I wonder which seedlings will decide to make an appearance next…