transplanting and snow

just finished my first round of transplanting. i ended up with 6 tomato plants, 4 dill and 10 leek, with another 2 tomato seedlings and 2 dill seedlings that aren't quite ready to leave the first pot yet. they say dill doesn't transplant well, but i didn't know that when i planted it, so we'll see. just as i finished, i set the pots on the window shelf and looked outside. it was snowing! doesn't the weather know it is supposed to be getting warmer? good thing the leeks are still too small to go out!

i didn't really have enough pots and there definately isn't extra money for gardening supplies right now, so i had to be pretty creative. i found a lot of the containers i'm using in the recycling room at my apartment building. nice big ones the leeks and tomatoes will need later on. i finished off my first 9 liter bag of soil and have almost finished the second bag of soil, this time organic.

the little greenhouse is still packed, with more tiny seedlings popping up every day. a tip i picked up on the web is to use toilet paper rolls as seedling pots, then when you replant, you bury the whole thing as the 'pot' will decompose. nice for sensitive plants as well.

seeding: round three

planted another round of seeds today. the brilliant part is i now have twelve packets of seeds that i spent a total of $5 on. i have now run out of space in my little greenhouse. i've also run out of the little pots i bought at ikea, so i had to be a bit creative... so, a fish food conatiner, syrup container, peanut butter jar and toilet paper rolls were all used. makes it more interesting to try growing things with spending as little money as possible. if we had a yard we'd do our own compost as well. am also soaking some parsley seeds i hope to plant soon. wonder how many little plants i can fit on our window sills...

seeds, round two!

needed a break today so spent an hour planting a few more seeds, this time in organic soil. i may end up with more tomato plants than i know what to do with, but i'm sure my friends won't mind the gifts...

every pot has at least one sprout!

dill
pot one: two
pot two: four!
leek
pot one: two
pot two: one
tomato
pot one: one
pot two: one

four little dills sprouts (three in one pot two in another) and one tomato!

watching, watering, waiting

the beginning...

today was the start of my growing things from seeds.
i planted six tiny pots.
two dill
two leek
two tomato
i labeled and watered them and placed them in their new little greenhouse.

i think there's something profound about growing things.