Indoor Seeds Update

The indoor seeds are flourishing! Yeah! Watching the seeds slowly develop into plants brings promises of a fabulous summer garden!

Here's a quick peek of just a few of things growing indoors.....

Lemon Balm - This smells so fresh and lemony!
Thyme - Smells so savory!

Lemon Balm smells better than I ever could have imagined it
would smell! I can't wait to create with it!


Flat Leaf Italian Parsley / Radicchio Lettuce

San Marzano Tomato & Brandywine Tomato
Happy Gardening!

Cold Frame Completed

Here's a photo of our cold frame that has finally been completed. We started it at the end of last season and just finished it this March. I'm a little late posting it up here. Anyway, the goal is to grow lettuces and other greens in here. Hopefully it will allow us to extend our harvest season as well. I don't have much experience with it yet but am optimistic. We built the frame with non-treated cedar wood and the top is constructed with two layers of heavy plastic with an air space between.

Here's a photo of Tim finishing the hinges. The frame is South facing and is angled to absorb as much winter sun as possible.

For more info on building & growing in a cold frame see "Four-Season Harvest" by Eliot Coleman and Barbara Damrosch. It's a wonderfully insightful book to read. Very inspiring!
I currently have some seeds in the frame that are starting to sprout and a thermometer to measure soil temperature.

Indoor Seeds Sprouting

The indoor seeds have started to sprout their first set of true leaves. Yeah! The above photo is of one of the Heirloom Lemon Cucumbers that I have started indoors.