My Garden

Back around the first of April, I started my garden seedlings indoors. I planted tomatoes, squash, green beans, carrots, peppers, and spring onions in those little, expandable peat pot things. At the end of last week, I called my county extension office to see if I should transplant the green beans and squash into the raised beds. They had rapidly outgrown their containers. The beans were almost two feet tall. The squash were nearly a foot tall. We're past the frost date, but it still seemed to early to me. Anyway, the master gardener told me to go ahead and put them in my raised beds because they were going to die if I kept them in the containers any longer. The rest of the seedlings are growing at a slower rate, so I still plan to wait until around May 1 to transplant them into the beds. I am in the process of hardening them off now.

Guess how my squash and beans fared. Go ahead, take a wild guess...

They are DEAD! ARGH!!! I'm guessing it is still too chilly for them. Either that, or they were already doomed because of how long they stayed in the peat.

There's a bright side, though. I only planted a few of each, so I have sufficient seeds to start over and plant them directly into the raised beds.

I also put down lettuce seed. I was actually a little late getting those in, since our first lettuce season will be over around the end of May. Those seem to be growing nicely!