Planting Seeds and Sets!!! 

We planted our early spring crops on Sunday March 29th.  For the Puget Sound area that included Lettuce, Bok Choy, Chard, Kale, Cabbage, Broccoli, Spinach, Carrots, Radishes, Mache, Parsley, Green Onions, Beets, Peas, Potatoes, and Onion Sets.

Here's the seeds we planted.

The big onions in the photo are Tree Onions or Egyptian Walking Onions that we transplanted from last year.  They are perennial and form bulbs at the top of their stalks.  When the tops get too heavy they fall over and the bulbs root down and form new stalks.

Here's a Red Wethersfield onion set.

These are Yellow Rock onion sets.

A big old worm came out to see what was going on.

These are Elephant Garlic Cloves.  

Here's Michele planting the Elephant Garlics.

Here's all our babies that we started indoors.  Starbucks cups make great seed starting pots.  Just poke a hole in the bottom.  

A great way to use old coffee cups before recycling them.  

Planting our baby Broccoli.

We turned clear Dixie cups over our babies to keep them safe from cold nights.  We poked a couple holes in the top of the cup for ventilation.  

We also planted potatoes.  Red, Yukon Golds, White, and Russets.  We basically took grocery store potatoes and stuck them in the cupboard for several weeks to get them to sprout.

Smithers is excited about planting potatoes.  

Good looking sprouts.

We cut them up so each piece that at least two eyes.

We planted some of the potatoes in large nursery pots (10 gal+).  We put  just enough soil in the bottom to plant them and cover them with about two inches of soil.  When the tops pop through, we'll add a couple more inches of soil.  We'll keep doing this until the pot is full.  

Planting veggies is hard work.  Old Oso had to take a nap afterwards.