Things not going so well

Things at TYs Veggie Garden are not doing so well.  It's been six weeks since the first planting and things haven't progressed. Seeds have broken ground, but that's about it.  By now, we should be seeing some decent plants. Unfortunately all we have are itty-bitty, two-leaf sprouts.

Our first theory is that the beds weren't getting enough water. So we started watering every other day. More water has caused a few more seeds to come through, but clearly nothing to get excited about.

Another theory we have is that the unseasonably hot weather over the last two weeks is stunting the growth of these cold-weather seeds. Maybe the hotter weather is just too much for these guys. As of last night, the temperature has dropped back to normal Spring temperatures so we'll see if this helps.

Another theory is that maybe the compost we bought from the city need some dirt added to it. Next time we'll mix in some other kind of dirt with the compost and see how that works.

And the last theory we have is that maybe we should have stared the seeds inside about a month earlier and transplanted the plants. We weren't really prepared to start seeds indoors this year because by the time we started focusing on the garden, seeds would have needed to be started already and we had boxes to build.

This weekend we'll build one more box and that will be it for box building this year.  We'll also plant some seeds in small pots and see if those do any better. We're scheduled for a a third planting for Spring then on to summer veggies and herbs in May.

A spot of good news... we have an apple tree in our yard.  Only thing we know about it is that the apples are SUPER tart and may only be good for applesauce or cooking. We didn't get around to pruning it in the Fall so it's a bit too tall at the moment.  But we'll do some work on the tree as the apples come in and see if we can do anything productive with the fruit.

Everywhere there is one of these white flowers, we should have an apple.

~Y