Last year we started growing some plants to have some fresh vegetables once in a while. This sounds easy enough, but as my wife and I live with her parents who use the available yardspace to grow their own plants, we have to turn to growing plants in containers. Thus, we became urban farmers, because farmpunk is not a word I want to use, ever. So the adventure of growing lettuce and basil in pots began, and it went pretty well, considering we had more lettuce than we could eat at one point. It wasn’t until we were halfway grown that I thought I should have been taking photos. And if taking photos, why not share them here, in between trailers for movies involving terrible monster costumes and remakes of remakes.

Thus, suck on some garden news!

Here we see some temporary containers I set up using leftover seeds from last year to see if anything will grow. Most probably will, and I’ll transplant the bigger ones to better containers in a few weeks. This batch was planted on March 10th. It is a mix of lettuce (green and purple), heirloom tomatoes, basil, and carrots.

Next up for this year, we ordered seeds from Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds, because even the worst garden blogs had nothing but praise for them. We ordered Morado (a type of purple tomato), White Tomesol (white tomato), and Rocky Top Lettuce Mix for a good mix of lettuce. They threw in a free pack of sunflower seeds.

Here I planted two lettuce seeds in each of the leftover soup cans

and lettuce seeds were also scattered in this trow that has a bonus already sprouted lettuce plant leftover from our attempt at winder gardening (which wasn’t as successful)

We had leftover of these disks from sprouting plants so I decided to use them to see if the tomato seeds will sprout in them. If nothing shows up in 2-3 weeks, there are still seeds leftover to plant more traditionally. All of these seeds were planted March 17th.

Luckily the weather here is warm enough that planting is okay. The biggest trial is paying attention to the weather reports to move everything under cover if rain is approaching. So far, there are a few sprouts on the seeds from last year, I’ll have some pictures up in a week or two.