This week, and last, Zack and I didn’t actually make it outside into the garden. Between school, homework, afterschool practices and being away for Provincials, there hasn’t been enough daylight hours to be able to accomplish what we had planned. Hopefully we’ll be able to pull some weeds and start tidying up the garden areas this Wednesday. The seedlings have been growing like crazy and look very healthy! It didn’t take long before we had to transplant our seedlings from our egg carton container to bigger, sturdier ones as the plants were already becoming root bound. Hopefully we’ll be able to keep them in these pots for long enough before they will need to go into the pots they will grow in, in the greenhouse. We have 13 total cucumber seedlings and 27 total tomato plants.

There are: 7 Marketmore  Cucumber plants and 6 Bushy Cucumber plants

There are: 8 Red Beefsteak Tomato plants, 5 Black Russian Tomato plants, 3 orange Pear Tomato plants, 4 Indigo Rose Tomato plants and  7 Hawaiian Currant Tomato plants.

The tallest cucumber seedling is 11.5 cm and the tallest tomato seedling  is 5.5 cm. The rest are not too far behind. Unfortunately, none of the sweet pepper seeds sprouted, so we planted new ones last week. So far none of these have sprouted…  Zack has been so helpful, talking to the plants everyday and reminding me that they need watering. He has determined that the taller plants are Daddy plants and the shorter plants are Mommy plants. (we’ll have that discussion later…)