We are now into April so it’s time to stop worrying about cold nights and ground frost as we pass “Last Frost Day”.  Things are looking a lot greener on the balcony already.

To celebrate, I tranplanted out some of the lettuce and broccoli seedlings and direct-sowed the dwarf borlotti beans and the climbing beans. The [...]

Taking stock of the seeds I planted 9 days ago, already there are varying degrees of progress.

I had a bit of a rookie scare with white mold (which I now know was in fact a fungus) on the lettuce seedlings but thanks to the folks over at the GardenWeb forums my concerns were allayed.
Here is [...]