Show us your seedlings

[catjac1975]

My eggplant are coming along.

 

[ninnymary]

Oh cat, that basil looks beautiful!

Mary

 

[digitS']

Good looking eggplants too, Cat'!

I'm hoping for a better eggplant/pepper year. It wasn't quite as cold in June 2013 as June 2012 but I think my impatience to get things out got the better of me. Probably averaged 1 eggplant/plant. Grump!

Still haven't seen an eggplant seedling.

Steve

 

[HotPepperQueen]

Can you direct sow eggplant or should you start them indoors first? This is my first year experimenting with them...

 

[digitS']

HPQ,

Let me just say that I can't imagine you being able to direct-sow eggplant and expect a crop there in "Central MN, Zone 3/4 border."

Hardening off and keeping the bugs off of the plants must be the most difficult things for gardeners. Every bug wants to chew on them and the poor dears are terribly cold-sensitive!

Steve

 

[catjac1975]

I will plant my seedlings out in the 2nd or 3rd week of May. If I planted store bought seedlings I would not get a very substantial crop because their seedlings would be small compared to mine. The same is true for me with peppers. So a sown seed would not give me any fruit. One thing I have noticed is I get a better crop from a pot grown eggplant.I think it is because the soil temperature is higher in a pot. I still do not usually do this however as I just have too much to keep up with. A pot needs daily watering in the heat of the summer. I used pyrethrum for the bugs.

 

[catjac1975]

Can you direct sow eggplant or should you start them indoors first? This is my first year experimenting with them...

Try my poor man's cloche!

 

[Smithyard Farm]

ere are my brussle sprouts - first attempt at starting seeds. planted peppers thi past Saturday. Nothing yet, but my fingers are crossed!

Will be up-potting these this weekend

 

[Gardening with Rabbits]

View attachment 1587Here are my basil seedlings-smell so good already!

Nice!

 

[Gardening with Rabbits]

ere are my brussle sprouts - first attempt at starting seeds. planted peppers thi past Saturday. Nothing yet, but my fingers are crossed!

Will be up-potting these this weekend


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Looking good!