Update on Vegetable Re-Starts

Well, the good and the bad news.  The cabbage, which started out wonderfully, started to dissolve.  I couldn't plant it.  I did plant the 2 celery and one lettuce plants in Kratky Hydroponic pots that are out on the back porch.

More bad news.  When I got up in the morning to check on our plants - something stole the lettuce!  It just disappeared!!!!  

The lonely lettuce hole......

I put the three Folder's coffee tubs in a bed of sterilized steer compost and pearlite - to insulate them.  I planted strawberry runners around the tubs.  The strawberry runners all have small roots, so they should take.

Lettuce (started from a store bought bunch.)

Ginger is on the right.  It took MONTHS for the ginger plant to root and put up shoots!!!!!  On the left us purslane.  I love the taste and texture in salads.

On the left are strawberry starts.  The larger plant on the left is a New Zealand spinach plant that has hardly grown in the last couple of months.  It started from seed out in the greenhouse, but is still small.  Once it takes off, it will be huge!!!  New Zealand spinach spreads out.  Even though it is slow to start out with, it grows profusely.  It doesn't bolt.

This used to be a bright red strawberry pot.  It's just faded over the years.  I planted volunteer parsley plants in the pockets and corn salad greens (from seed) in the top.  

This is one of the Kratky hydroponic planters George made us.  It used to be an under the bed shoe storage bin.  We'll grow lettuce and greens in it.  The seeds for the plants were just started a few days ago.

Pots waiting for kale plants to transplant..

Silk lavender wreaths.....

Silk lavender wreath - with our hanging pots from our outdoor wishing wells wintering over in the back porch.

Garden room

Garden strip and hydro pots.

Mini-greenhouse with seeds planted

Second hydro planter - which will be put to use, once the lettuce, chinese cabbage, kale, carrots and other veggies get big enough to transplant.

So, I put clear cups on the remaining 2 celery plants and my New Zealand spinach plant, in the garden bed.  (Our ginger is too tall to cover this way.)  

Whatever it was that stole the lettuce, bumped the cover off of one of the celery plants in the middle of the night.  So, I put it back on.  Next night, another bump off of the plant.  I recovered it.  

Time to get out the decon............