Can you see it? Look really really closely… it’s on the left side of the Charden.
How about now?
Sure looks like rainbow chard… but I don’t know what it is… I planted this bed full of rainbow chard, and this is the sole seedling… the survivor… the volunteer?.. the naturally selected.
The seed packet says that they should take 7-10 days to germinate. So, by my calculations, I should have a garden full of chard seedlings by now. I planted them on Monday, April 5th. And it’s now 20 days later. Maybe I planted them too deep? Maybe I sowed them too early? Maybe they were all washed down deeper or floated away… The day after I planted my Charden, it rained and rained… in Houston, we would’ve called it a ‘frog strangler’. Here’s the data from the Badger Mill Creek gauge:
Note, April 5… the day I planted my garden… before the rain fell. Just for more perspective… Here’s the data from all of April…
So… I’ve re-seeded my Charden. Maybe I haven’t been patient enough – maybe the chard will spontaneously sprout at some magical average temperature. If it weren’t for that lonely seedling fighting the good fight, I might not have even considered that something is a-miss in the Charden.
Now, to keep those rascally rabbits away from my precious, gasping Charden…
nice! I have had absolutely 0 luck with the seeds I tried this year, though ironically the ones I saved from some peppers we ate sprouted right up.
I love that you’re using flow gauges as part of your gardening regime:)
Could it be dock?>> http://problemweeds.com/docks.php
The little sprout to the left looks a lot like a chard/beet sprout to me. Are there more of those in there? I have a feeling you’re going to have a lot of chard.
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Thanks Melissa…. Yep – I’ve been seeing more and more of those chard/beet sprout looking plants all of the sudden. My re-seeding may have been overkill
It just took a lot longer than I expected to see them. I’ll check out the dock…. there is a goodly amount of compost in my Charden too… so I suspect that I’ll have more than one volunteer in there.
I love data… if I can figure out how to mine and interpret garden related data… I’ll do it!