This year I decided I would start beans indoors for the first time, to give them a head start and hopefully find the “success” in succession planting. Well, I am having success of some sort. The beans are growing fast and furious, already reaching past the tops of the two-foot stakes I put in the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘seeds’
The Beginnings of Beanstalks
Posted in Gardening, tagged beans, garden, seeds, spring on April 15, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
My Sprouts Are Baby Plants
Posted in Gardening, tagged garden, seeds, spring on May 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
My sprouts are one month (+ 4 days) old! Actually, they’re no longer sprouts—they’re baby plants. Until this week though, I wasn’t convinced that this first experience of growing plants from seed would be a success. Some seeds took a very long time to sprout. After two weeks, their growth seemed to stagnate. I transplanted [...]
Vegetables Come From Seeds
Posted in Gardening, tagged garden, seeds, spring on April 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This year, I decided to try growing some plants from seed rather than buying them at the nursery. The instructions on seed packets suggest planting them 6-8 weeks before they can be planted outdoors, which in Ottawa is traditionally Victoria Day weekend. By the time I planted them last weekend, I was technically already behind [...]
