Photo update of my garden
April 15, 2008 by gardengeekette
On Friday, I started seeing true leaves on my tomato sprouts:

I also found that the lettuce seeds had sprouted!! Unfortunately, the photos I tried to take with my camera that day turned out blurry, since the cloudy weather made for dim lighting at that time of the evening.
BUT, I took more photos of the lettuce sprouts yesterday evening. Here’s a clump of Black-Seeded Simpson sprouts coming up in the rightmost pot:

There are Black-Seeded Simpson sprouts in the lefthand lettuce pot, too, but not as many (I wonder why?). Here is a picture of a few in a patch of evening sunlight:

It seems like only one type of seed in the Mesclun mix has sprouted so far. There are quite a number of these sprouts poking up:

I have no idea what they are, especially considering I’ve never grown lettuce before, and I’m not all that familiar with the varieties in the mix anyway!
Today at lunch, I took some more photos of the tomato sprouts:

Their true leaves are getting much more pronounced and tomato-leafy!

It was pretty cold here last night, so I’m hoping that the lettuce sprouts survived okay. No sign of the peas yet.
P.S. In other news, my husband and I have come up with an exciting idea for the plant stand from Ellie! I was thinking of edible flowers, but we might try strawberries!! :-D Not sure if there’s enough sun for them though…
Strawberries can do alright in partial shade. I planted strawberries in my garden as ‘ground cover’. There are plenty of blossoms but we don’t get many strawberries because the rabbits and squirrels eat them before they are quite ripe. >
Oh that’s great to know (about strawberries growing in some shade, not the rodents eating them!!
) Husband is *so* excited about homegrown strawberries! Maybe I’ll try my hand at your fabulous strawberry pie with our crop 
Yesterday when I got home from work, I found some of a new type of sprout in the Mesclun pot