True leaves and intruders

12 May 2009

I’ve had the first signs of life appear in the vegetable patch. Unfortunately, these were not vegetables that I planted on the bank holiday weekend. No, a couple of potatoes came poking up through the soil, growing from tubers I must have missed when I made my harvest last year. They were also impolite enough to do so right along the line of carrot seed I’d planted. So in fishing out the potato plant, I disturbed the carrots.

Not that they’re up yet anyway though. I keep going out to the patch and inspecting the ground, but as yet there are no signs of life between my little colour-coded markers. It’s been ten days now, so I hope that soon there will be the first few green sprouts here and there. It’s not very warm outside though, so maybe things will take a little longer. It looks nice enough from inside, but then you step out into the cold wind and wish you were back indoors again.

In fact, indoors is the place to be for a little vegetable action. Both the aubergines and the tomatoes have now started forming their true leaves and are looking a little more robust than they did when they were just spindly little seedlings with two cotyledons.

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dreamdust » Beetroot and carrots in da house
13th May 2009 @ 5:02 pm

[...] the seeds I planted at the beginning of the month were just waiting for me to blog about how nothing was happening in the patch before they put on their glad rags and showed [...]