Here are some of the graduating class participants. Most of the tomato plants are now 8" tall. They will be transplanted to 4" pots and then later this month they will go to 6" pots if they grow enough. By the time they go in the ground in late April, they may be 24"-32" tall. I'm, going to try to leave the peppers in 2" pots and see how that affects the maturing process. They take a long time to mature in the garden since they need the summer heat so I think a good root structure is better than verticle growth.
This picture show the stages of transplanting. I'm going from 2" rectangular pots to 4" round. From left to right in the foreground - an 8" tomato plant in original 2" pot; a plant trimmed of lower leaves; a plant re-poted in a 4" pot with a bamboo stick and name tag. Name tags are very important as we will have 6 different tomato varieties, each with a different purpose.
I've laid out the potatoes so they can start to produce eyes. The plan is to plant them by St Patrick's day (Mar 17). Shown here are 50 pounds of red and white. They can yield up to 10x their weight. I'm getting 50 more pounds today so I'm hoping for a big potato crop :-)
In the front are the new Broccoli plants. They are still rather small. but are starting to get their true leaves. They will be ready to transplant in about 2 weeks.
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