Garden 2014 — Additions

The buds of spring fade too quickly.

Garden Additions Planted From Seed:

2 big patches of curly endive
(empty patches to be filled in with Farmer’s Market Mesclun Blend)
1 patch dill
1 small patch Caribbean Red Habanero
1 small patch jalapeño
about 8 basil seeds

The purchased tomato plants are doing beautifully.

They’ve all grown several inches.  All the tomato plants look very healthy, except one.  The tomato plant on the end was very dry when we made our purchase.  We immediately brought the poor little plant home and watered it very generously.  The plant appears to be healthy.  But, it’s just not growing like the others.

Botanical Interests Cherry Tomato Rainbow Blend

After picking out all of the natural colored seeds and carefully planting them, I found the Botanical Interests website and found a list of the color coding.  The color coding is as follows:

Natural Seed Color = Super Snow White
Blue = brown cherries
(It says brown cherry.  But, last time, mine resembled black plums.)
Yellow = Gold Nugget
Orange = Sundrop
Red = Sweetie
Green = Green Grape
Bicolor = Pink & White

I thought the natural seeds would be brown or black plums.  Oh well, it looks like I’ll have a small half row of Super Snow Whites instead. (If they sprout, that is.)  In the spaces where the Super Snow Whites don’t sprout, I plan to plant the rest of the green seeds.  Also, the last two blue seeds were planted.

Look at all those seeds left!  That’s after at least two years of plantings.  If they sprout this year, I might try and save the remainder for next year.  One 15 inch scrap of bamboo makes a lovely planting stick, too.