from back to front:
~ Golden Detroit Beets (all!)
~ Red Detroit Beets (all!)
~ Garlic Bulbils (all!)
~ Cucumber Marketmore (several)
~ Cucumber Straight Eight (just one so far)
~ White Cosmos (all - huge - oy!)
~ Tamina Tomatoes
Still waiting for:
~ Zinnia - probably wait forever as the seeds were the last of the lot from the nasty eBay lady
~ Lemon bee balm - may not sprout as it was just dust from last year's packet
~ Garlic Chives
~ Amish Paste tomatoes - free SASE seeds, so perhaps unreliable
~ Melon, Minnesota Midget - melons are slow to germinate; should have soaked seeds first
~ Watermelon, Sugar Baby Organic - same as above
These actually started sprouting a few days ago - the cosmos were first up, then the marketmore cukes - but I didn't get a chance to update here what with Pesach and Shabbos and all...
I just removed the plastic lid anyway because the cosmos were so bloody tall (doh). Hopefully, the self-watering mat will mean the soil stays evenly moist and the other stuff will eventually sprout somehow.
Up close and personal:
Last year, most of my beets succumbed to major leaf miner infestation. That shouldn't affect the quality of the roots, but the roots didn't get huge, anyway, for whatever reason. I have improved the soil, and I figure a good headstart indoors can't hurt for this year.
Plus, it survived and thrived in last year's dismal wet summer when almost nothing grew well.
So, in conclusion, and yes, I can't believe I'm arrogant enough to "recommend" a tomato, especially something so mainstream and probably bad-for-the-world in some way as a packet of seeds from a commercial seed company, but there it is.
Thompson & Morgan. Tamina. Yum. :-)
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