Shishkebab-skewer seedling stakes

Our seedlings are trying to escape their small root-prisons and expand outward. You see them leaning eagerly towards the sunlight through the window. As if that tiny bit of extra light will make all the difference. So Leonie added some stakes to keep them from leaning all over themselves. We had a package of wood kebab-skewers and those work perfectly for this format. And if you use wire twist-ties, you can easily adjust how tightly they're attached to the plants as they grow.

 

 

Keeps them from getting too rowdy before we put 'em in the ground. The weather has been amazing, so hopefully we can transfer them pretty soon.

Tomato and squash seedlings

Our tomato and squash seedlings are slowly improving in size. Also the cucumbers has been moved to bigger pots. This is from a few days ago. We've got 9 types of tomatoes, some sunburst squash, snowy eggplants and regular eggplants.

Grow baby grow

And a few days later....
we have cucumber and tomato seedlings.

Go

The seedlings are making a move.

This is from a couple days ago. The rest are now also going strong. A bit too quick maybe.

Seeds

Alright. Seeds are in the soil. The season is starting. I actually saw some sun this week. Tired of the cold wind and dark clouds. I’m hungry for summer. Lets get some food in the ground.

Most of the seeds we ordered have arrived. We're now starting with the aubergines (eggplants), because they take forever to germinate, I’ve got a few starting out in the windowsill greenhouse. This year we’re doing Snowy Aubergines as well as the regular purple ones. Also have cucumbers and tomatoes going.

This year we’re looking forward to trying some different heirloom tomato varieties. The last 2 years we just had 2 beefsteak plants, and while that was fun, I’m interested to see what all those other crazy tomatoes taste like. Right now, we’re doing tigerella, green zebra, black krim, black cherry, brandywine red, brandywine yellow, principe borghese and san marzano, plus some regular tiny tims.

Hopefully this year, it will be a bit more organized. We’ve got even more stuff than last year, and that filled half our apartment for a month with seedlings. Hell, the next time we move, it’s gonna be somewhere with a garden attached so we can do all of this outside instead of in the living room.