Saturday, September 25, 2010

Growth... and the opposite

Well, the no compost carrot plant didn't make it. BUT, everything else seems to be doing pretty well. It has been raining a bit here and I had to save my spinach from drowning. When I checked on them yesterday, they were under about an inch of water. This is what they looked like AFTER I dumped out at least a gallon of water. You can still see the water seeping out of the soil on top.


The zuchinni are in hanging pots and they didn't seem to get as much water when it rained, they actually were looking a little dried out when I checked on them, but they seem to be doing well. The carrots with compost are also doing well!
Zuchini - Compost

Zuchini - No Compost


Saturday, September 11, 2010

the fledgling carrots...











Not sure how well you can see it, but there is one little sprout in the carrots with no compost pot. Which is a stark contrst to:




There are probably about 7-10 little seedlings in the pot of carrots with compost! There isn't such a stark difference in the zuchinni - it looks like the zuchinni with compost might be growing a bit bigger but the difference isn't quite as obvious as this... I'll post some pictures of the zuchinni later!

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Germination!












About a week after I planted my seeds the zuchini sprouted - and it looks pretty good! There was also a tiny spinach sprout and an even tinier carrot sprout. Yay!