I bought two packets of seeds last weekend: one for lettuce, another for broccoli. I wanted to have tomatoes but according to its packet, tomatoes are not ideal for winter, and that's where we're headed to real soon. And so I settled for these greens. The lettuce will be ready for picking after 60 days and will actually be "ripe" just in the nick of time, as the month of May is the start of the months when lettuce is not a good crop to plant. The broccoli will be ready about a month after that but it is a something that can be planted the whole year round. No, I did suddenly not become an expert on veggie planting overnight; these were also indicated on the packets.
This is the plot Jo-Lo and I have been watering whenever I come home from work (except on four days when the weather suddenly became bleak with overcast skies and showers). It looks like nothing much happened but on closer inspection...
...you see seedlings sprouting about! Now, I am fairly sure that many of these are weeds trying to catch up on recapturing the land after the havoc I did when I dug up the land. But there were seedlings growing in a row, and that is a good sign indeed. These are the lettuce; the broccoli are doing fine as well, though they are not as visible. The lettuce seeds were far greater in number. The packets cost NZ$2.45 each, by the way, from The Warehouse.
Even the celery which I just stuck into the earth rather than dumping it into the rubbish bin is thriving pretty well!
We have a greenhouse of sorts that's attached to the house, and in here I planted some tomato seeds (from actual tomatoes... in case it will grow), and some of the seeds too. Here they are, growing rather well. 
I am wondering now when I should move some of these seedlings out into the open, for they cannot fit into these small containers. I have dug up the patch of land next to the one I have planted on, and this will house some of the seedlings.Technorati tags: gardening
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