Disappearing Nine Patch Quilt. Progress Notes. 4.10.2021

 All of the squares are cut now.  I started sewing together the nine patches.  It will take a while to complete them, and there is no hurry.

This photo is from when I started cutting them.  There are now about 49 piles of each color pair, 12 squares per color.

Here are some of the second hand men's shirts that will go into the spare bed quilt.  They are shades of blue and grey.  I want to add some brown, tan, khaki type colors.  A few more should do it.   My current thought is either 5 X 5 squares or 5 X 10 squares.  Maybe do the latter and if there are not enough, change to 5 X 5.

Tomato Seedlings. 4.10.2021

 Here are the slicing and cherry tomato seedlings now.  They are all growing nicely.  In order to slow them down a little, I'm not fertilizing, and I move them outside where it's cooler, during the day.  They just need to hold on a couple more weeks for better weather.

The varieties include favorite hybrids (Better Boy and Lemon Boy), hybrids I haven't tried before (Braveheart, Early Goliath), Russian heirloom types (Golden King of Siberia, Moscovich, Purple Russian),  heirloom Classic Beefsteak, a cherries Braveheart, Sugar Rush, and Unicorn, and a yellow volunteer cherry tomato that came up volunteer from last year, probably descended from Sungold.hybrid.

Now that I have the Water Tube plant enclosures set up, I can plant six of these outside in a few days.  That will give the soil inside time to warm up.  I measured the soil temp, it's about 46 in am and 50s in afternoon, maybe 10 or more degrees warmer than ambient temperature.  I'm thinking, maybe the three Russian varieties and  classic Beefsteak, Better Boy and Lemon boy.

These were formerly called "Wall'o'Water" but now called "Season Starter".  I bought three more via Amazon and set them up yesterday.  They hold about 4 gallons of water.

Here they are this morning.  No plants in them yet.

Apple Seedlings. 4.6.2021

 So far these apple seedlings are continuing to look pretty happy.  The green leaf seedling has about the same number of leaves as the burgundy leaf seedlings.  It's the interstems that are longer, making for a taller plant.

Overwintered Kitchen Crops and Buried Treasures. 4.6.2021

 Egyptian Walking Onions are doing very well.  We got some nice scallions today.  There should be scallions for another month or more, as smaller starts mature.  The overwintered Swiss Chard was quite tasty too.

As I was digging the garden bed, I found buried treasure.  I know I didn't plant these last year.  They somehow snuck in a year of growth between snow peas last year.  I must have planted them 2 years ago, or more, and always miss digging them all.  I think these must be russets.  Inside, they are still snowy white.

Forthysia Flowers. 4.6.2021

 I cut some forsythia stems to bring inside.  That way I can enjoy them without going into the yard.

I think I might try to start some of these in water.  I had started one of the bushes that way, 20 years ago and I might have started the other from a cutting too.