It’s already been 10 days since we planted our seeds and a week since our last update so I thought I’d give you a quick onion update since I know you’re on the edge of your seat.

We planted both sets of onions in one long planter using organic seed starting mix and water. In the past we used peat pellets to start seeds, but grew them in containers on the porch which has had mixed results. The seeds and seedlings did really well in the peat pellets, but now that we’ve got the garden plot we’re trying to reduce the use of peat pellets since they have a plastic wrap around the pellet that won’t degrade in the garden.

The two halves of our planter could not be more different. Here’s a picture of the Tropeana Lunga seedlings.

They would be doing a lot better, but we kept the plastic top on the planter to help the other half germinate. Now here’s the Golden Princess side of the planter.

I think we’re doing better growing some sort of mold than seeds so we might have to re-try these seeds again. Notice in the far upper left we do have one tiny sprout that just starting to come up. Soon we’ll have to cut some of the seedlings back until we just have 1 plant per each section. Then once we have the seedlings growing strong in the planter we will transfer them to the garden in April. If everything goes well with this batch of seeds we’ll have 72 onion plants as the beginning of our 2009 garden.

My eyes are already watering.

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