There are around a dozen tomatoes coming up nicely in our little seed starting area in the dining room. This morning, I transplanted 5 of them, plastic pot and all, into the Vegepod. The weather forecast calls for well above freezing at night for the next two weeks. The Vegepod's lowest temperature has been consistently 5 or more degrees above the outside temperature. Worse comes to worse, and we get a frosty night, there are wheels on the Vegepod and it can be pulled into the shop.
I want to stagger production of some of the vegetables. This should help for the tomatoes. They will get a good head start Vegepod.
A few days ago, I took a chance and transplanted some Bull's Blood Beets into the Vegepod. They are a cool weather crop and they were planted in tiny decomposable pots. Whew! They are all alive! We received a couple of these in a seed mixture last year and were smitten with the taste of both their leaves and roots.
This gardening experiment has been interesting. I've been moving the trays of plants from the house to the Vegepod and back for 10 days or so now. Temperatures get as high as 40°C during the day. The Vegepod is the bottleneck in this experiment. I could use three of them.
In the garden, the Napa cabbages that were transplanted into Ted's cloches are loving their new home. Yay!
If you look carefully, you will see some mesclun salad plants in front of them. I "pricked out" plants from two cells and got 24!!! separate plants. We'll see how many survive. After I transplanted them, I remembered the bunny! Oops! The garden fence is now loosely ringing the little plants. Whew!
Even though our garlic cloves were planted fairly late, they look just fine this spring.
Red & green cabbages look a little twisted. Is that what happens when you are raised in a plastic cloche?
So, if the two cells yielded 24 plants, imagine how many we'll get from the remaining 30 or so?! I am going to hedge my bets and wait a few days to transplant the next ones.
And, it could all come to a crashing halt if I forget to heed this note.
“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
Henry David Thoreau
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