Early April

I'm so excited!  Our plants spent their first night outside in the greenhouse.  They seem to be doing fine this morning.

I lost a few plants when I transplanted everything late last week.  I used those little round disks that puff up to plant everything originally and the plants were getting a bit spindly under the lights inside.  So I decided to transplant into bigger containers and I damaged some of the delicate roots.  But we still have time, so I re-planted those and am waiting for them to come up.  In the greenhouse, I closed off the top shelf to keep the seeds that haven't sprouted warm; opened up the bottom shelves during the day to give the baby plants some fresh air. Then just zipped up everything after the sun goes down. The temp didn't get below 50 degrees last night, but I'll bring them in tonight. The forecasted low is 36 degrees.

I should give credit to Mel Bartholomew and his Square Foot Gardening Book. The more closely we follow his instructions, the better we seem to do with the garden. He has a website at www.squarefootgardening.com. You can go there to see how to build raised bed frames and check out his specs for the frames, grid, soil, etc. He even sells kits, if you don't want to make everything from scratch, but it was really easy. My grandson did most of the work.

We're pushing the envelope a bit by using so many vertical frames, but you never know until you try!