Organic Indoor Spinach and Swiss Chard: End of Week 5

 Organic Indoor Bloomsdale Spinach

   I cannot begin to tell you how excited I am to have this spinach plant growing. I love spinach. I would eat spinach every day if I could, I did not grow enough spinach to last me throughout this years winter unfortunately. But the only way we learn is through trial and error, so through my error I now know to start saving and storing my spinach a couple of weeks earlier for next winter. Bloomsdale spinach is an insanely fast reproducing spinach cultivar, I believe this cultivar should be a staple in every novice gardeners' garden. This plant usually will start fully producing around the fifty-fifth day after germination in my personal experience. This is the only spinach cultivar I have grown since I started gardening and I actually am going to try out a new spinach cultivar this spring in my organic outdoor garden, so be on the look out for those future posts and YouTube videos!

Organic Indoor Flamingo Pink Swiss Chard

   I cannot believe that my fiancees' cat decided to eat all of my swiss chard sproutlings I had previously growing in this container you see here. After planting new seeds about two weeks ago, we are at this stage yet again. But at least the growth rate and germination rate are extremely fast and ideal for the average garden. I am excited to try this plant, I always heard its similar to kale but has its own taste. It's always fun to try something new and exotic!

   Thanks again for following and reading my grow-posts, it means the world to me. Let me know what your favourite veggie or fruit is, and maybe I can tell you how to grow it! Until next time friends....

¤ Keep it GREEN and Keep it GROWING



HyperSmash

Indoor Organic Potted Veggie Plants: End of Week 4

Organic Flamingo Pink Swiss Chard

   Another week has gone by and more progress has been shown for each individual plant! Unfortunately my "vegetarian" cat ate the majority of my Flamingo Pink Swiss Chard sproutlings, which gave me no choice but to plant some more seeds. These are those seeds and are about a week old. So their growth is actually pretty decent. I'm hoping these will be ready for transplanting with my other plants.

Organic Lacinato "Dinosaur" Kale

    What a pretty texture that is developing on these Lacinato or Dinosaur Kale. I love eating and growing kale, it's just easy to grow and incredibly versatile culinary ingredient. This cultivar is one of my top choices for kale, and will continue to be until another cultivar knocks it out of the park. I use my spinach soil mixture for my kale plants which has lots of nitrogen in it.

Organic Bloomsdale Spinach

    What can I say? Ever since I saw Popeye as a boy I HAD to have spinach. This spinach is one of my favourites because it isn't very picky and works well in both my outdoor and indoor organic gardens. This spinach usually takes about sixty days for me to fully mature but I have heard and read peoples' posts/comments stating they have had it fully mature at day fifty-five. Just remember any spinach thrives off of nitrogen, so make sure to have lots of manure to spare!

Organic Tronchuda Kale

    Yet again another kale! This kale I am growing specifically for culinary use in stocks, stews and soups. This kale cultivar derives from Portugal, and is known for its use in Portuguese Soup. You are looking at about 3 weeks of actual growth since I got the seeds from Baker Creek Farms quite late. But overall this plant is a real producer and has excellent growth rate. I'd recommend this to anyone wanting to grow kale! You cannot find this cultivar in your average market either.

That is it for this weeks indoor organic potted plants, be on the look out for future posts/videos on gardening and adventuring! Thanks again for following and reading my posts, I am glad I get to share my grow-log with you fine people. Until next time...

¤ Keep it GREEN and Keep it GROWING





HyperSmash

Organic Indoor Garden: Potted Plants End of Week 2

Organically Grown Bloomsdale Spinach

    Whenever I talk about spinach, Popeye always comes up in the conversation without fail. People don't associate spinach and muscle growth for no reason. Spinach is one of the healthiest and most flavorful leafy green that everyone has the most access to. So far this has been a moderate rate of growth and the plant is keeping that keen green colour. During last spring my rate of growth was exponentially higher, I used more nitrogen outside which is what any breed of Spinach thrives off of. Here I'm using half as much nitrogen which is still a great growth rate but it could be a higher rate if I added more.

Organically Grown Flamingo Pink Swiss Chard

    This is the first time I have grown any form of Swiss Chard, I've heard and read loads of information on this. Swiss Chard is an alternative to Kale, yet with its' distinctive Collard Greens after taste. I chose Flamingo Pink just because I thought twas a fun and pretty colour to add to my garden. I planted these seeds a week later than every other plant in my Organic Indoor Garden. I actually received these seeds late from Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds. I wouldn't recommend buying from them, my gardening schedule is completely off this year and it is going to be until my Organic Outdoor Fall Garden that this schedule gets fixed. I have only seen pictures of this plant fully matured and it looks amazing!

Organically Grown Lacinato "Dinosaur" Kale (Italian)

    I love eating kale and I love growing kale. I use it in soups, stews, as a garnish for steak, as a side dish, with the main course, for juicing, in a salad and dehydrate it as chips. It's a wonderful leafy green and extremely healthy for you. The leaf of this plant will turn Nero or black and have a scale-like texture on the leaf which is beautiful. Lacinato or Dinosaur Kale is a winter hardy crop, I am currently growing mine in my Outdoor Organic Winter Garden with some Red Russian Kale.

Organically Grown Tronchuda Kale (Portuguese) 

    My newest breed of Kale I am growing! I'm super excited for this one. I planted these a week late as well due to some rubbish of an excuse I was given, but it's a decent growth rate. I'm hoping these guys will catch up with the rest of my plants and be on schedule. This specific breed is known for being used the most in stews and soups, which is exactly what I am going to use it for first. Eventually I will try to bake a couple of the leaves with some spices to make a crisp out of it for a hiking snack.

Organically Grown Yellow Wonder Strawberry

    This is my first time trying to grow strawberries, so I thought why not and get something different. I have read that Yellow Wonder Strawberries are small, yellowish white in colour and pack quite a punch on your palette. Some people have said that the fruit has a hint of watermelon to it and is fairly sweet. If I grow enough I want to have some with fresh Angel Cake. That is my crack people! I will definitely post a recipe once I grow enough Yellow Wonder Strawberries.


  ¤  That is it for this update guys, I hope you've enjoyed the growth and progress each plant is taking. I thank you for sharing this grow-log with me and keep on the look out for my future updates. ¤

Until next time, Keep it Green and Keep it Growing!!

HyperSmash