Since the garden is progressing quite nicely and we believe we will have everything ready for planting outside in the beds as well as in the greenhouse relatively soon, we decided to start a few seeds today to get our first batch of homegrown veggies. We’ve had to put them on the window ledge in the kitchen where they get light and warmth during the day. On a trip to the home improvement store today, we picked up a few packets of seeds and some indoor seed starter mini greenhouses with starter soil pellets.

Tomatoes – we started two different kinds, Black Krim – a black tomato we just couldn’t pass by when we where ordering some other seeds online – and another kind called Colibri we found at the store today. We planted five of each.

Zucchini – another find at the store today, they are called Defender, and since I drive a Defender it had to be the Zucchini we wanted to try first. Planted 5 of those as well.

Lettuce – since the slugs at the succulent little seedlings we planted in the cold frame and we found a bunch of seed packets left behind by the previous owner we planted a few lettuce seeds as well, 5 in total.

Cucumbers – also five and not too much special to say about cucumbers

Eggplants – this was a request from hubbyH he really likes them sliced thin on his pizza with lots of garlic, or as eggplant parmigiana so having those in the garden is a given. We started 5 seeds of this as well, just to stay consistent, but this may yield way more eggplant than we will probably need.

Corn – we started 5 plants each of sweet corn and giant sweet corn (Jala Maize) we’ll see how they turn out. But if they do well it will be one happy BBQ summer this year.

Stevia – my first attempt to sprout the spores on wet tissue paper failed. W.en I inspected them today, they were molded. So it’s time to try, try again! Today we sprinkled a few of the seeds on moist soil in the starter greenhouse. We did a few seeds per pellet and will later on and leave only the strongest plant on each of these. Oh and you may have guessed, we started 5 pellets.

Peanuts – also 5. We really wanted to try those out since neither of us has seen them grow before, so these seeds got lucky and ended up in the first batch of seeds we started today.