As usual I’m a bit overdue to write about what is happening with our little seedlings – but what can you do? I did take some photos of them on March 18th which was about a month after they’d been planted. As you may notice, the zucchini were sprouting like weeds and most of the tomato seeds had popped up as well.

I took some new photos this morning because we already needed to start replanting some of the seeds, separating out some of the weaklings and putting the seedlings into bigger pots.

Sorry the photos are so dark but we had a bit too much sun coming in the window and I’ll never complain about that! It’s absolutely springlike here right now and we’re savoring every moment of it!

These are mostly tomato plants and the shelves are certainly going to need to be split apart soon – or the plants moved to the greenhouse already which would also be wonderful.

The 4 big pots on left are the Fordhook zucchini from Burpee (which are growing massively quick!) Then in the smaller pots are two Defender zucchini plants which we grew last year and liked quite a bit and Small Sugar pumpkins from Burpee.

What we’ve learned so far is if we are going to use newspaper pots again (which is likely) we probably shouldn’t put more than one or maybe 2 seeds of each plant into the pots. It defeats the whole purpose of being able to just put the whole pot in the ground. And, if you will use these pots, start making them far in advance of when you will plant so you have plenty of them and don’t need to make 100 or so in one day – it’s really not that fun, especially when doing it by yourself!

Hope your gardens are also off to a wonderful start!