It's Victoria Day weekend in Canada and they say this is the weekend that is "safe" to start planting your plants outside (no danger of frost). Even though I started my seeds wayyyy early this year, I had a bit of a setback in April when a bunch of them didn't make it and I was left with some pretty fragile seedlings. The Cherry tomato plants are doing well and they are just waiting for more soil to transplant to the planters. The French Radish (a few of them) have come back to life and are getting quite strong, as well as an abundant of lettuce (various kinds) seedlings....
So today I decided it was time to do the major transplant into the raised planters in the backyard. The lettuce seedlings are still quite fragile but they were running room to grow in the pot I started the seeds in (my bad for not reading the seed packet instructions). So I decided, what the heck, I'll just transplant them into the planter to give it lots of space to grow. Things proved to be a bit trickier than I had anticipated, as the sun today was quite strong and it was starting to "cook" some of these delicate seedlings. I had to come up with a device to shade the planters as I was doing the transplanting... quite hectic...
This is the end result, seedlings planted in neat rows/groups and planter is secured with chicken wire (just in case) to prevent the squirrels from doing any "recreational digging".....
Keep your fingers crossed for me that these seedlings will survive the next few weeks (in terms of facing the weather and the squirrels!) Happy Victoria Day!
No comments:
Post a Comment