May 10, 2011

Show Yourselves!

My lettuce, arugula, radish, and mizuna seeds have finally poked out of the soil. I think the delay must have been due to a combination of unusually cool temps and crusted-over soil.

Luckily these volunteer cilantro seedlings had no trouble germinating.

These lettuce seedlings, on the other hand, were very slow to get going. If you can believe it, I planted these almost a month ago! It took almost two weeks before I saw any sign of germination.
This self-sown arugula will also help add to my early spring salads (assuming it isn't technically summer by the time these things grow big enough)

3 comments:

  1. Now you can start dreaming of delicious salads!

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  2. Love volunteer plants-they always seem so much "stronger" than transplants.

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  3. Sue: so true! I could never grow seedlings indoors that are as healthy and strong as the self-sown ones!

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