This weekend is the big “gardening weekend” in the province. It’s the Victoria Day long weekend, and the nurseries and garden centres will be packed with people, getting their bedding plants and vegetables now that our frost date has passed. (we can still technically get frost, but it’s extremely rare).
I do not enjoy the hustle and bustle and chaos of long weekends, so Dave and I went out during the week, and hit up a couple of garden centres for a few things.
One of those things was broccoli. You may recall that I started some broccoli from seed in the house but…
Well, you can see it’s just not looking that great. I have a feeling the light I bought off Amazon was not quite as strong as advertised.
My tomatoes are in much the same shape.
They are starting to get true leaves, but the sprouts are terribly stretched. So I picked up a tomato plant as well.
Sadly, it’s not a yellow tomato – but a Sweet 100s cherry tomato (regular red).
I’m still going to try with my sad little sprouts and see if I get anything else out of them. It cant hurt to try.
Elsewhere
My potted potaotes are looking good. A couple more weeks and I’ll be topping up the soil.
My shallots seem quite happy. And the garlic…
The garlic is absolutely ecstatic! And so am I! I’ve never had much luck with garlic, but I think I’ve finally cracked the code!
My spinach and lettuce had a bit of a hard start, thanks to digging from the squirrels
But the few spinach sprouts that survived are really coming along nicely.
And the lettuce isn’t doing too badly either!
The rest of the veg seeds have now been planted direct – but there’s not much too see there since I only planted them a few days ago. But we have lots to look forward to including:
- Carrots
- Three types of bush beans (two green, and one yellow)
- Sugar Snap Peas
- Celebration Squash (a fancy acorn squash)
- Cucumbers
- Zucchini
- Cucamelons
- Baby Pumpkins
- Fancy Gourds
And of course we have raspberries and strawberries to look forward to.
And the neighbour gave me some shoots from his thornless blackberry bushes. I just have to find a spot for them!
It’s going to be good eating here this summer.
Wandering Cat Studio 
I have to close my eyes when I walk through the plant section of the hardware stores. I am so tempted to by those beautiful veggie seedlings that are out now but they are always a disaster here. Now I’ve got bugs eating my petunias. Argh…
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It is definitely going to be good eating this summer! You have such a good variety of vegetables planted.
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Lots of good eating at your house for sure. That’s one thing I miss about condo living. No garden. We’re gone so much too that it’s impossible to keep things watered on the balcony. Someday when we’re home more, I may plant some veggies in a raised bed on the balcony and some hanging tomatoes.
Blessings,
Betsy
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It’s so much fun to pick one’s own food, from one’s own gardens.
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