This post is about two of my favorite vegetable garden plants: tomatoes and sugar snap peas! Both are delicious right from the garden and I have both growing in my home and garden! The snap peas are about 6 inches tall at this point. The pea growth has been slowed some by the cool temperatures. Even though sugar snap peas can tolerate the cold fine their growth slows until the temperatures are warmer. And that’s not a weed to the left of the snap peas, that’s cilantro!
The tomatoes are looking pretty good right now in side the house. Some of the tomatoes were planted in seed starting peat trays while other tomatoes were planted in recycled mushroom containers. The foam mushroom container tomatoes are doing much better than the peat trays – and they were even planted a week later. I think part of it is due to more soil for the tomatoes to grow roots in the foam containers. I’ve noticed a little yellowing of the leaves in a few of the peat tray tomatoes which tells me that the plant isn’t getting enough nutrients. The tomatoes need more soil for more roots and could stand to be fertilized.
Maybe this weekend I’ll finally start my basil, peppers, and eggplant. I think the basil may do fine in the garden shed since the temperatures are staying decent. Not ideal, but decent. I need to insulate more along the ceiling – but that’s a subject for another post!
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Your tomatoes look a lot better then mine…
Hi Dave,
I put my cold crops in a week ago but it has been too cool for any of them to sprout. I'm afraid I am a long way off from tomatoes and peppers.
Eileen
Dave,
A little tip on peas from our local pea expert (Meg) plant your peas in two rows about a foot apart and plants peas about 1/4 inch apart (plant them thick). Most of the time the newly planted peas with get eaten or something so planting them thick insures lots of peas. Once they are growing build a trellis 5-6 ft with string for them to grow on.
I will have to post a picture of my peas — it's hilarious! I had two little sets near each other in a raised bed. A dog climbed in and tore it up! I thought one peat pot was totally gone, down in the woods or something. Then a couple of weeks ago — I found it in the middle of the raised bed, pretty as could be.
Here's my seed sowing this week:
http://greenlovegrass.blogspot.com/
Oh wow, your tomatoes look amazing!
My poor tomatoes are sick, my peas look pathetic and it looks like more rain. 🙁
see my Seed Sowing Saturday post:
http://cortinacreek.blogspot.com/2011/04/seed-sowing-saturday-cinq.html
Nice seedlings- I was just working on my bed for the peas. We recently moved and are in the process of starting all over- whew! Takes a lot of work. I looked all over your blog and I couldn't see where you are located.
Happy spring!
your tomatoes look super healthy to me. our peas are 6" too; unfortunately, that's probably not tall enough considering the extreme heat we'll have soon. maybe I'll get one salad's worth at least!
curious about your eggplant plans. I've grown them from seed before and it too FOREVER! I'd have to start them in January to have something substantial enough to plant about now (it's veggie planting time here!).
You're going to have lots of yummy veggies and herbs this summer!