Planting a few more things

The weather is starting to warm up here already. We're expecting a few more chilly days or storms before spring is 100% here, but I decided to plant a few more early things anyway. A couple nights in the 30s should be okay.

I filled up one of these HUGE plastic pots I picked up at Kmart on clearance for about $5 and put it in the corner of the patio. It took 3 bags of potting mix! I put it on a small cinderblock so it can drain since they were out of the drip dishes for this size. I planted several kolrabi seeds in the middle, with a half circle of carrots in front and a half circle of beets in the back.

You can see that my carrots in the container on the left and spinach on the right are doing well right now, getting bigger. There's a larger green pot off to the left off screen which has baby mustard greens and a couple scarlet runner beans that haven't popped up yet. I planted a couple sugar snap peas near the front edge of that pot, yum!

I planted some nasturtiums in these hanging pots. Hopefully they'll hang over the edges and look really pretty! If they do, I'll add some pansies, johnny-jump-ups and violas to these pots. I have them sprouting in Jiffy greenhouses, but they're not growing much.

These are my tomato sprouts. I had them indoors. They sprouted easily and quickly, but have gotten taller than I'd like and aren't putting out real leaves. I moved them outside in the shade yesterday, hopefully getting a bit more sun will make them turn into at least a couple healthy plants for me. These are grown from the heirloom rainbow blend from Gurneys, I'm a little excited to see what colors I get! That is, assuming they grow for me. I never have much luck growing from seeds.

My garden today

It's a bit overcast today and getting ready to rain. Seemed like a good time to document some progress in my container garden!

This big dish planter was a freebie! I filled it with cheap potting soil that was on sale, and dropped a bunch of rainbow radish seeds on top. Spread a little more dirt over the top of those about 10 days ago. Look at 'em go already! I also have several small flower pots of different types of radishes in the house, planted at the same time, but these ones outdoors are growing much faster. I'll probably move my small pots outside after the rain, it may freeze at night the next few days.

Here's my giant strawberry pot, another freebie! I followed a tip I found to drill holes in a 1 inch pipe and put that down the center of the pot to help distribute water better. We'll see how it works as the plants grow. I filled it up with some super cheap bare root strawberries, the ones on top seem to be perking back up but the lower ones are mostly wilted. I've watered them directly a few times, I think it's just that I planted the ones with bulky roots on top, and small roots on the side where the holes were smaller. I'm hoping they thrive, but if they don't I'll have plenty of edible flower sprouts I can poke in there instead! I have an entire tray of pansies, violas and johnny-jump-ups sprouting.

There's more on the front patio, sprouting indoors and on the other deck, but I'll cover those another day! Fun to watch things grow!