My indoor gardens continue to produce. I harvested enough lettuce for two small salads for myself. I grow heirloom varieties: Merveille de quatre saisons, Red sail, Rouge L’hiver, Black seeded Simpson. The cabbage is a baby tatsoi. I started several seeds in one pod, many germinated, so I harvested all but one plant so I can see if it makes a cute little mini-head. In the same spirit, I’m trying “tennis ball” lettuce, a butter head type supposed to make cute little rounds. Kale also is said to do well, and chard and arugula.
I’ve got green tomatoes! I started two types of mini-cherry types- the plants are supposed to stay small, as well as making small fruit. One red, the other orange. I transferred several of the starts to pots, and left two plants in the hydroponic machine. The hydroponic ones are blooming away! I pollinated by vibrating the clusters of flowers with an old head on my electric toothbrush (thank you, internet) and I’ve got some tiny little fruit starting to grow! This is so much more exciting even than lettuce!
Meanwhile, outside, it’s too early for anything except cleanup. But my witchhazel is blooming, as it should. Last year this time, crocuses were blooming, but not yet this year.
