The Transplant

Cucumber, cauliflower, and broccoli hit the height potential in the Burpee grow house, so I knew it was time for a transplant. However, I have never done something like this before. I watched a brief YouTube Video of an old guy doing it in Texas, but I'm not so sure I'm even at the right stage or if they're the same type of plant! Seriously, the seedlings were planted 10 days prior to when I repotted the them.

The Transplants!

Check out the roots on the cucumber... such a fast growing seed!

It is so cool because I remember seeing the onion seed, which looked like a small black chip of charcoal and thinking - that will never grow! Check it out now...

It's hard to see, but if you look closely you can see the black seed at the end of one of the green sprouts.

Oops accidentally uprooted an onion while taking off the clear dome.

I planted all of the cucumber seedlings alone because they already seemed SO BIG! Check out one of my first transplants below:

I just removed the duo from the seedling tray.

oops one that hadn't seen sunlight or max potential yet

Check out that root structure... so impressive for 10 days in dirt!

The cucumber seedling is going into the soil.

Honestly, I don't know if the seedlings are supposed to be alone or in groups. I have never grown vegetables on my own and never even seen broc/cauli or cucumber grow before. Anyhow, I was getting sick of planting so many and I thought Patrick might get upset if I covered the entire kitchen table with vegetable and herb seedlings. It's a bit of an experiment but with the broc/cauli I planted groups of 1, 3, and 5-9 (I didn't plant broccoli and cauliflower together, but remember I think I may have gotten them switched). Ha, ha check it out as it is without planting single seedlings!!

before

after

The same day as the seedling transplant I had started out planting some Redwood trees in the backyard, but then it started to pour rain so I started in on the seedlings. 

When you plant trees and tend to an acre- you need WOLVERINE BOOTS!

I'm standing right where I dug the hole and planted the next Redwood.

I am still seeing new bulbs pop up in the front garden beds. It's so exciting! I love the vibrant colors of the tulips and the large daffodils with the dark orange centers.

A beautiful tulip popped up on the far end of the garden bed next to a maroon pansy.

Daffodil a plenty!

My favorites are the large white and yellow daffodils with the orange centers :)