Seedlings Starting to Grow

Garden January 2012

This is a picture of my garden. I started the following seeds on January 2nd:
Carrots - Danvers 126
Broccoli - Premium Crop - Hybrid
Lettace - Buttercrunch
Cabbage - Early Flat Dutch
Onion - Granex - Hybrid
Leek - American Flag - Broad London
Super Snow White tomatoes ( I got these free with my order with TomatoFest). It too early for tomatoes, but these are suppose to like it cooler, so I though I better get them in the ground quick.

Some of these were a little late in planting, so we will see how it goes. The ones in the front are Bonnie Hybrid I won at a Garden Workshop at Lake County Extension office. I put the hay over the top of the seeds because we got frost. This seemed to help, because all the seedlings are growing through the hay now. I gave them all a foliage feeding with Dr Earth 3-3-3 Liquid Solution Fertilizer today. I will be building another box for my other seeds I have already. I'm going to be starting some of them like tomatoes and pepper in Cow Pots on an APS Seedstarter and I got Organic Seedstarting Mix from Garden Supply. If your wondering about the flower pots in the garden they are my homemade ollas for irrigation.The following website is where I found how to build your own Olla with unglazed clay pots you can get at Lowes or Home Depot, Olla Irrigation. I used them last year and like how they worked although you have to make sure the plant is close to the clay pot. I bought bigger pots (8in vs 6in) for the next box, because last year I was filling up these twice a week. I want to add a gravity feed system to make it like a drip system, but using more nature materials in the ground.Happy Gardening!