Sprouting updates

Ok, veggies are miraculous. It surprises me just how quickly they come up. I read all over that gardening takes mountains of patients at times, which is something i severely lack; I figured that gardening might make me learn how to pick up a little of that. But I don't think i'll ever learn it with these vegetables. 45 to 60 days for most of the harvest seems like an eternity this first go-around, but seeing them grow so fast, all the exciting changes happening, it really doesn't seem so bad :)

Broccoli is coming along nicely, so are the lettuce, pea and spinach seeds.

broccoli lettuce (omg, look how close!!!)

spinach snow pea

Hollyhock seeds are being little troopers still for being planted so so early. Cold weather is coming back later this week (lows in the mid 30's... scary!!), but in the greenhouse packs i think they'll be alright.

Hollyhock in egg container

Larkspur in Jiffy peat pellets

The Larkspur seeds are just starting to come up, about 3 of um so far. I'm still waiting on a few that i planted: Bomera, Angel trumpet, columbine and delphinium. Haven't seen any signs of the daffodils yet either planted back in Nov. but they were planted under the mulch so i dont know if i have any real hope for them... we'll see. I know the Bomera is quite a wait for any signs of growth and that the seeds need to be sown as early as possible after they are removed. But with so many other things going at once I'm not going to watch that pot boil.

Came home today to find that my vegetable bed had been dug in. Now normally I would be HIGHLY irate about something like this, but whatever it was only dug in a single spot and in my lettuce. Since i needed to thin them anyway i wasn't too mad about it. I blame the dogs. We have a Rhodesian ridge back and shar pei mix, a neighbors basset hound that wanders over to the house all the time and a little boston terrier. My money is on the terrier, but Dad seems to think its some sort of raccoon or something. He says the dig was just too narrow and too clean. I donno... I'm thinking of possibilities to prevent anything else from happening but don't want it um, aesthetically unappealing. chicken wire wrapped around the entire bed is not what i wanna do. If this happens to my flower beds *deep breath* it will not be good...