After 2 Weeks

After 2 weeks most of the plants have popped out of the soil and have sprouted. Zucchini and pumpkin are the tallest competing at 14 cm! And  we even have Parsley and Green pepper that we have not had for a while!

Tray full of seedlings.

We almost have all of the plants! Isn't that exciting?! All but 1 of the parsley are growing. And half of the green peppers are too!! One wax bean has sprouted enough to pop out of the soil as well - they are taking a while. As we said earlier, the pumpkin and zucchini are the tallest, but the snap peas and sunflowers are tall too! Mama thinks that the snap peas have the prettiest leaves - she says that pea plants always look so happy.                                        

Tall pumpkin and sunflowers.

A wax bean!

Big G says that all the plants look cool and thinks they are going to get big fast. Little G would like them grow faster. Right now we are saving tin cans to transplant the seedlings when they get too big for the tray.

Introduction

Hi! We are Big G and Little G, new gardeners. We are planting our first garden. We are excited to be able to grow our own food!  My little brother, Little G, exclaimed that he couldn't wait to see the food on the plants - Mama G told him that he would have to wait a few months.

We planted seeds in a tray of soil pods on March 15th, 2015, during a snowstorm. We planted fourteen types of plants, but only had twelve rows in our tray, so we didn't plant as many of some plants as others. We chose which plants to plant less of based on how much or little fruit/vegetable they would make (zucchini and cantaloupe) or how big they were going to be (sunflower and pumpkin). When we planted them, we put 2 to 3 seeds in each pod.

(our mom took these photos)

Mama G was surprised to see plants springing out of the soil only 5 days later, on Friday, March 20th.  We planted cucumbers, beets, sunflowers, pumpkins, zucchini, cantaloupe, green peppers, romaine lettuce, wax beans, snap peas, spinach, carrots, parsley, and broccoli. The first seedlings out of the soil were the sunflower, cucumber, zucchini and pumpkin.  On that day, there were no parsley, beets, broccoli or carrot plants.

Today, it snowed again, but our garden is inside and continues to grow! Almost all of the plants have popped up out of the soil. The only ones that haven't are the parsley and wax beans. One of the wax bean seeds has moved closer to the surface of the soil and we can see a couple of cracks in the top of it, so it may be thinking about growing soon. As you can see in the first and last photos, seeds are still attached to some of the plants. Also in picture three, you can see that part of the plant is growing out of the side of the soil pod.

Pumpkin and Cantaloupe plants in the foreground.

Sunflower and Pumpkin plants in the foreground. Parsley in the background - still not growing.

Broccoli on left and Snap Peas on right.

Beets in middle, with Broccoli growing on the right and Carrots not out yet on the left.

Look at the Pumpkin, Zucchini and Sunflower growing like crazy.