We planted on 12/15/13. And this is what our egg carton looked like on 12/23/13. Really fun for the boys. We had two little tomato plants sprout, two squashes and two green beans.
This is the little tomato plant. I am amazed at how small they begin.
On 12/23/13 Mike decided to get the ball rolling and build me an unexpected Christmas present: a raised-bed garden box! We had talked about making one at some point, but the seed growing spurred things on.
The next day Mike went back to the store and got soil as well as some kind of hot pepper plant. He worked hard filling the box. He needed some rest after all that work.
Finished product. The plants are a little hard to see, but I put the pepper plant in the right upper corner and then transplanted the things out of the egg carton that looked hearty enough to make it. Three squashes and two green beans. We also replanted into the box a few new seeds: two peas and three sunflowers.
Two days after Christmas we decided to really go for it with some bigger plants. We got two kinds of tomatoes, two more peppers, red lettuce, arugula, swiss chard, some strawberries... Going for the gold.
We'll keep you posted. Don't our little squash plants look great? You can actually see them in the picture (bottom right corner) just a couple days after the transplant!
And this is how our garden box looks as of January 23rd, 2014. Overflowing!! The butternut squash plants have taken over! But, we think there will be enough room for the other stuff to keep growing. The better bush tomato plant has one big and two little tomatoes. The butternut squash has a ton of little squashes all over the place. We have cut and eaten the red leaf lettuce twice. There is one tiny pepper on the pepper plant. Super exciting!
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