Vegetable Gardening

[copperlegend]

How do you do the sprouts? My boyfriend casually mentioned (blatant hint, perhaps?) that when he was growing up, his mom always had a jar of sprouts going, and he misses fresh sprouts in his sandwiches.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

How do you do the sprouts? My boyfriend casually mentioned (blatant hint, perhaps?) that when he was growing up, his mom always had a jar of sprouts going, and he misses fresh sprouts in his sandwiches.

I have two of these jars:
http://www.amazon.com/Quart-Glass-Sp...9727928&sr=8-3
They work well for me and I always keep the two going at different stages.
Once they are 'done' and you take them out of the jar, loosen them up a bit in a big bowl of cold water and rinse a little to rinse off the extra seed hulls. The rest of the hulls you just eat up anyway in the sprouts. One rounded tablespoon of alfalfa seeds fills the whole quart jar jam packed with sprouts. Easy to put in too many seeds, so I had to learn to hold back!

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Well, I've been planting little rows of seeds out in the freshly hoed vegetable garden, mostly the cool loving type vegetables.
Various interesting lettuces, scallions, leeks, swiss chard, kohlrabi, kale, bok choy, carrots.

Today we deep-dug the future blueberry and raspberry patches, and mixed in soil amendments to increase the acidity. Glad that's done.
Afterwards, I hoed and planted a small section of leek seeds just for fun.

[ummbnb]

My husband is the king of the garden and has tons of things started both inside and out. I do OK in the garden but he's a sahd so he has a lot more time and energy to dive into it all. I do like to weed, very zen LOL!, and I enjoy the fruits of his labor

[short cut sally]

DH is moving my garden spot to a better location, closer to the water hydrant and it will be bigger. I started buying seeds this week. I've got more to buy. I'll do direct sow when the weather permits, I usually have good luck with that. I've let my co-workers know that the garden's gonna be bigger so they can be the recipients of any items that I can't process right away. I'm getting excited.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Sally, new gardens are just SO exciting!
How sweet that your husband is doing that for you!

I am seeing tiny little baby lettuces and kale and spinach sprouts just coming up through the soil now. So thrilling to see the teeny greenlings pushing up in rows.

[spokewench]

You people are so lucky. I should be planting, but my garden just came out of the deep, deep snow freeze a week ago. I just can't get out and work it yet, cause I still would have to walk through a foot or so of snow to get there. Just can't get myself out there yet; plus it is really quite cold at night 20's still.

spoke

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Updates from everyone?

I planted some seed too early and it didn't come up, so I have had to replant it again. On the other hand, some didn't mind the cold at all, especially the kale, spinach, radishes, and black-seeded simpson lettuce. Another week and we'll be able to have 'baby salads'.