Since the cucumber seedlings were growing so quickly, I wanted to see how it would do out in the garden plot. Not a good idea. The seedling dried up in the sun! Good thing I only tried it with one. Vicky suggested we transplant them to small pots.

Dave said that with our 20 or so seedlings we might be looking at around 200 cucumbers this summer…

This week has been pretty sunny and the seeds really felt it!

Uh… so we didn’t have anything to label them with and now I’ve forgotten what we’ve planted. I want to say it’s arugula. Not sure.

… Carrots…?

Peas are starting to climb the trellis!

Garlic greens are looking amazing! Urge to sauté them with some smoked duck.

Chives are in competition with the garlic greens! One bud has appeared.

When we first got this oregano plant, I really had a hard time believing it would revive itself into a new non-brown spotted plant. But it happened!

The reign of clovers is over.

Most of the cucumber sprouted out strong while the tomato plants have barely sprouted (and their stems are really thin).

They were leaning towards the real sunlight (rather than the light we attached)! How do they know??

Anyway, I rotated the planter around so they would stop leaning and getting tangled into each other.

Look at the little seed husk!

So the Pet Plant project did not go as smoothly as we hoped it would because most of the herbs caught some sort of fungus and died (was it us? or did we just get a bad batch?). A few tropical plants really seemed to thrive in the office climate though! I didn’t think we’d be able to grow anything indoors but Vicky bought some supplies to create a small greenhouse to start our tomato and cucumber plants.

They get light and heat (the planter’s on a heating mat).

Do you see the green poking out?

So the whole idea of planting clover in the first place was so we’d get more nitrogen into our soil, but now we need space to actually plant things!

a friend came by to help us out!

We were surprised at how dense and interconnected the clover were. Vicky said that if we didn’t turn them upside down enough, they could reroot themselves into the soil even after we’ve pulled them out!

Also, the clover patch is more out of control than ever. They’ve covered the breadth of the plot and are now going for height.

Our first vegetables of the Spring are snap peas. We plant them close to the edge so we can prop a trellis against the plot once the peas start sprouting.

The entire plot!

The garlic seems to be thriving too. The oregano and chives seem to have reanimated!

Clover moves quickly. They germinated over the first weekend and has since dominated the plot.  No sign of any garlic activity from the surface.

Mystery foot (paw? claw?) prints on the soil itself.