Update 4-8-2010

It is April now and seedlings from February have grown big. Mama has planted an herb garden, Ambrose flower seeds, Stella pansies, myself flower seeds, and many other growing plants are also shown.
Mama's fennel. She used a package called Jiffy packs. These packs came in a black tray with a plastic tray of holes, in which compressed peat packets were installed. When this was filled with water, the peat packets expand, then you can plant the seeds. The seeds later sprout, and when time to plant outside, you can just plant the whole peat packet.


Mama's sage.


Mama's thyme.


Mama's marjoram.


And Mama's rosemary.


Here are Daddy's fuschias.


Ambrose's Zinnias. Planted Mar 28.


A single square of his snapdragons. Planted Mar 28.


One of Stella's pansies. Planted Mar 19th.


Here is one of my oregano seedlings - planted Mar 30th.


Daddy's coleus has red on it now!


One of Ambrose's marigolds has a bud!


My pepper, February plant.


Basil, still untransplanted.


Transplanted seed geraniums. I have 9 of them.


More marigolds.


The one begonia that did take root.


Geranium, cutting from November. The flower is a pink mixed with white.


2 yr. old geranium. I took the picture from this angle because it looked like a tree.


Tomato forest, 2nd generation.


Transplanted basil.


Tomato forest, 1st generation. We now have 36 tomatoes. Where in the world are we going to put them all!?


Daddy's tomatoes have produced buds!!!


We also have some blue Cilia outside.


2nd bunch.


Tulip sprout!


Daddy's cold frame. The glass came from Green Bay, the wood from Manitowoc, and the Screws from Chicago. Nice mix, heh?


He planted some spinach inside. Can you see it?

Update Well Due 3-25-2010

Since my last post, we've planted many more seedlings, and the others have grown up a lot more. Daddy also built a cold frame, but that will have to go to the next post as it is dark right now. Here are some pictures of our indoor seedlings and plants.

Tomato forest. This is 27/30 of them.


Another view of the tomato forest.


These are pansy seedlings. They sprouted 6 weeks after we planted them.


An African violet Oma gave to us. It's blooming now!


Basil, transplanted.


Marigold. It did turn out to be a marigold, after all. "It's got the purple stem, see?" - Ambrose


Basil, untransplanted.


Geranium seedlings!


Parsley. Ambrose transplanted them into yogurt containers about 2 weeks ago. Now they're happy and big.


Here are the peppers. They finally sprouted, and now they're pretty big. There was a third, but it died, because the seed didn't fall off of it.


Coleus seedling. This is the only one that survived a drop.


Leeks! These were planted on Feb 9.


Fuschia cuttings. We put them into florist's foam and put them in water. Now they have roots!
More transplanted basil.


Begonia cuttings. I just planted them just like African violets. The one on the left seems to have taken hold. That second leaf was a tiny bud when I planted the cuttings.


More, newer marigold seedlings.


The whole shebang. The bottom tray with 10 capsules per section is Stella's petunias. They have sprouted:
-Anatole

Update 2-23-10

Here are some more pictures; some are of different/new plants, others are updates of previous plants.

I am wintering several plants in the basement. The temperature down there averages 48 F.
These are half of my geraniums. I pulled them from outside at the last minute in the end of October. The next weekend we had a hard frost.


Lengthwise view of the basement table.


We are also propagating some African Violet leaves from Oma's violets. (They were picked in January.) The brown spots are sunburn. We put them in some African Violet soil that we got and sprayed them to keep them wet.


Here is our seedling setup at the top of the stairs. We put it there because it was warmer than the basement, and it is hidden behind the stair door. I put in some shelves and hung lights on top. There is a light and another shelf beneath, but we aren't using it yet. I probably will pretty soon. That lightbulb underneath is for heat.


The radishes are now growing second leaves (true ones, very small under the big seedling leaves.) I planted all my seedlings in 3 parts soil, 2 parts peat.


Tomatoes are happy. :)


The big one was the first sprouted. (It should be transplanted soon.)


My basil finally sprouted!


Daddy's tomato sprouted! The race is on!!!


I planted these lettuce seedlings 5 days ago. I think there are too much. They grow way too fast for me to keep up. :)


Ambrose's parsley grows bigger!