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I don’t have any pics…yet but I have little green tomatoes all over our many plants. Again this year some are unlabeled (the ones my husband gleaned from our starts). My husband wants to see what will happen when some tomatoes are left to their own devices so we will see.

We have Brandywine (some rogue lonely dying plant that I picked up at a store), Green Sausage, some cherry tomatoe variety I have to go read the pack again. And my favorites, Black from Tula, Amish Paste (these grew well last year) and Gold Medal.

More to come…

As you know I’m planning a serious container garden this summer. The pots are on their way and the seeds have been started. The ones that need starting indoors.

Gardens seem to be in this year. I hear and read about kitchen gardens all the time. I always try to grow something in pots and it’s been many years since I’ve gardened in the ground. This is the first year I’ll be trying so much in pots.

There are many reasons to grow your own vegetables. I have three.

1) It’s a great learning activity my daughter and I can do together. She loves, loves dirt, plants etc.

2) I really need to know where my stuff comes from. I’m one of those label readers at the grocery store and lately I’ve been really discouraged by the low quality.

3) Have you every tasted garden grown stuff? Amazing! Much better than the year old stuff in the grocery store.

But alas I have learned onions from seeds are not the easiest to grow. I learned the hard way.

After watching my puny onion seed leaves fall over and seem to die at the root I called my close friend who God blessed me with and who is also Master Gardener information. She must shake her head every time she talks to me.

Turns out the little onions seeds had too much water. I’m going to blame my daughter here. So they had some sort of root rot or something.

In an onion funk, because what is a garden without onions, I traipsed off to the grocery store with my family (we like to shop together).

Low and behold as I wandered past the seeds for who knows what reason since I have the makings of a small farm in my closet I spotted a little bunch of some tiny plant. There weren’t many left so I picked one up. Yahoo! It was a huge bunch of mini Walla Walla Sweet onion starts. They are so cute! It was definitely more than I can fit in my pots so I’m going be sharing these with family and friends.

As far as the rest of my plants are doing.

1) Tomatoes – 3 varieties doing well although I think they are a tiny bit leggy

2) Cucumbers – Was I supposed to start them so early? I heard I can grow them in summer too for a late fall harvest. The plants are doing incredibly well

3) Onions – Starting over with starts

4) Lettuce – I started some indoors because I wanted to. Not so sure this was smart but we’ll see.

The rest (corn, potatoes, peas(maybe)

5) Lavender – I’ve heard this is hard to start from seed and maybe the fact that my seeds never sprouted should be a clue. Back to the drawing board.

Although I know this was posted back in 2005, gardening is never old or goes out of style so here is some more great info on gardening onions at Farmgirl Fare

And another article on growing potatoes in pots