March 9, 2026
vegetables, tomatoes, herbs, cauliflower | permalink
In the basement, now under grow lights, I started the following seeds, in order from left to right by six-pack:
- 6 basil, collected from ones I grew last year
- 6 more basil, also from ones I grew
- 6 cherry/grape indeterminate, noted to be from a spouse favorite after a taste test, from a descendant of the original 2024 volunteer and packaged on Sept 8, 2025
- 6 cherry/grape indeterminate tomato seeds from the original 2024 volunteer
- 6 round bush heirlooms from March 31, 2025, from one of the store-bought tomatoes I used last year
- 6 round bush heirlooms from ones I grew, packaged on Sept 30, 2025. On the package I noted "Very good plant, seems to not get too big/little to no blight"
- about 20 cauliflower, bought from store, in a burlap roll, inspired by GrowVeg
Aside from maybe planting more of these if they don't all come up, I don't intend to start anything else inside.
Updates:
- March 14: 5 cauliflower seedlings are already up and about 3/4" tall.
- March 15, 4pm: 9 cauliflower seedlings now up
- March 16, noon:
- 10 cauliflower
- 1 basil
- 1 tomato (indeterminate, from Sept 8 2025)
- 5 tomato (indeterminate, from original 2024 volunteer)
- 3 tomato (bush, from Sept 30 2025)
- March 17, 10pm:
- 10 cauliflower
- 4 basil
- 5 tomato (indeterminate, from Sept 8 2025)
- 6 tomato (indeterminate, from original 2024 volunteer)
- 4 tomato (bush, from March 31 2025)
- 6 tomato (bush, from Sept 30 2025)
- March 18, 9pm:
- 12 cauliflower
- 4 basil
- 6 tomato (indeterminate, from Sept 8 2025)
- 6 tomato (indeterminate, from original 2024 volunteer)
- 4 tomato (bush, from March 31 2025)
- 6 tomato (bush, from Sept 30 2025)
- March 20, 9pm: 1 more basil
- March 23: 1 more basil
- March 25: 1 more basil (now 7)
- March 27:
- potted up all the tomatoes (with an extra from the original volunteer, since I apparently dropped two seeds in one cell)
- a couple of the bush tomatoes are starting to develop true leaves
- one of the cherries/grapes has a set of three initial leaves instead of two - haven't seen that before (in my limited experience). I noticed this a week or so ago but kept forgetting to note it.
- planted five basil seeds in the cells where the first ones didn't come up
- Apr 3: a cauliflower seedling has come up in one of the tomato pots
- Apr 8: I think it's broccoli, not cauliflower that came up in the tomato. Now there are four of them. And another tomato.
- Apr 12: potted up the round bush heirlooms from the Sept 30, 2025 seeds into bigger pots. I topped up the soil on all the other tomatoes.
- Apr 13: potted up the cauliflower. Lost one somewhere along the way so now there's 11.