At Winco, there were some potato starts. I just bought one box, I have more coming from Fedco in Maine in a few weeks. These are my most favorite of all potatoes, Kennebecs. I sliced a couple in half to get more plants. It's enough for a row. I will let them dry and grow a little bigger in the sunroom for a week or two before planting.
These started germinating quickly. Lettuce Black Seeded Simpson, planted a few days ago, no warming mat. This is nice. Of course, there are many more to follow. It's interesting, they emerge so much larger than the seeds seem to suggest.
Yesterday I planted saved seeds for cilantro and Black Seeded Simpson lettuce in the raised bed. I expect to harvest those before planting peppers outside in May or June. Today I made a trip to Winco, fully haz-matted in double masks, gloves, and goggles, but no flame thrower. I noted some seeds, so bought another variety of lettuce and some spinach seeds. I planted those today. These are probably not candidates for seed saving, which is OK. I have too many of those anyway.
These are more appropriately called "Peach Shrubs" than trees, they are so small. Small shrubs at that. I covered them for the winter, using upturned trash cans. Today I thought, "I wonder what's going on under there". It turned out, one is already blooming and the other is growing, both very very pale from no sunshine.
I covered these for the winter to avoid issues with Peach Leaf Curl Disease, which makes inroads into the peach buds through the rainy fall and winter. I don't know if that will be an issue with uncovering now. There is still some rainy season ahead. With these so pale, it's possible the sun will damage them. I decided to just go with the flow and see what happens.
If I remember correctly, the blooming one is called "Garden Gold" and the nonblooming one is called "El Dorado". That second one was far smaller when I planted it last year . I pruned off the moldy looking branches.
This is the peach curl resistant peach that I grew from seed a number of years ago, progeny from Oregon Curl Free. It's a good peach and on the seed grown tree there has never been significant leaf curl. It's the most resistant tree that I have grown so far, out of many varieties marketed for disease resistance. I labeled this peach "Sunny Day" so that I would have something to call it.
Last Spring I tried to whip/tongue graft scion onto Lovell rootstock, didn't take. So I bud grafted onto the same rootstocks during the summer. They took, but one was lost in hot weather. That left this one.
It's tiny, but I think the bud is still alive. It's a little greener in person than in this photo. I pruned off the rest of the baby tree, above the bud. Now it must grow from this bud or not at all.
