Hello Green thumb bloggers
The garden is looking good today. The sprouts are finally coming up and the early girl hybrid tomatoes are finally ripening after about 70+days even though the package says 60 or less. I have them in a not fully exposed place leaving them I think a little smaller then normal and ripening a little bit later due to lack of light. Here's some photos of the garden today and yes I know I need to weed it out a little.
So the bad news so far for the garden project is that my sprouts of cucumber have all been eaten by mice so will try those again in the germination box until they are better established. I hope they will stay after I get them a little older than putting them into the ground. I started this first batch in the ground so maybe they will make it after they are more established in pots first. The lettuce never came up and had to start over and this time I got some fancy red starts from my friend in trade for some okra and watermelon starts. I am doing a experiment to see what is best for the lettuce and to reduce possibility I will not have lettuce to make my salad! I have 2 plants In the ground, 2plants in pots I put in the germ box, and 2 plants in pots I leave outside. I will see what method works best for my location, climate, and pest problems. I will see if they taste sweeter or not and compare size to determine the best method along the journey. Here are the pics! The last pic you can barely see the lettuce starts just down from the strawberries in bottom right corner of the photo.
They all seem to be adjusting and is looking good. The peppers are fom starts and not sure what they are its from a mix seed bach from a friend and consisted of jalapeno, cayenne, habanero, chili here's the pics. The starters of okra are being tried to ways in ground seeds and germination box from seed, the pests have eaten one of the in ground starts but the other seems fine but they are both smaller then the ones in the box. This is all I have for todays updates hope you enjoyed and go gardening eat free!
starts peppers & Okra & Cilantro 
Thanks for Reading Jon M Ellison
