In this post I wanted to take a break from the recent tutorials to do a bit of an update on the growth on the balcony.

As you can see above the potatoes are looking good (at least the above soil portion is!). At the near end of the trough are the pentland javelins, coming in [...]

Last frost is this week (or so I am informed by hearsay) so I transplanted the harbinger and cherry tomatoes out in the balcony greenhouse.

I first planted the tomatoes in seed trays in February. Then, in early March I moved two of each type (harbinger and cherry) to their own containers (10-15 cm in diameter). [...]

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.
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