Peas in Greenhouse, part 2

OK, on Jan 3, I made a thread about jumpstarting my greenhouse, and said I was planting peas in there. I got that all done over the next day or 2, so, if you use Jan 4 as the middle day, it's been 10 days now. By warming up the greenhouse a couple days to be sure my soil was warm enough for the seedlings to survive, and by soaking the peas for a few days for them to germinate, these are the results:
I don't have a very good camera, which works out fine, since I'm not good at taking pictures. But, in the first 2 pictures, you can see the peas breaking the surface, and clearly, nearly 100% survival rate. I planted them more or less 3 inches apart. In the third picture, a close up of one, I dug down to the pea itself, so hopefully you can tell that there is about an inch of growth above the planting, and of course the root goes down, but I didn't dig that up. Then, the forth picture, I put the dirt back, to show that no peas were harmed in the making of this brief pea-show. In a minute, I'm going to find one that looks crowded and take it all the way out of the ground so you can see the whole thing, root and all. By using the greenhouse, keeping the soil warm enough to insure survival of the plants, and soaking the peas before planting, I will be way ahead from if I'd planted in the ground(recommended Feb15 here, so would be near March 1 before they broke ground)

OK, as you can see here, the plant has grown upward 1 inch from the pea itself, in order to break above the ground. They were planted, more or less 1 inch deep. So, while it grew upward 1 inch in 10 days, look at the root! The root grew downward 2 3/4 inches during the same time! Pretty neat, huh? Since I swished this pea around in rainwater to get it clean enough to see, I put it back in the ground and marked it. In a few days, I'll know if that pea could withstand being "from it's mother's womb untimely ripped" Man, who'd ever thought I could work Shakespeare into this post?

[mickm]

Very nice, and good cred to billy!

[Groene Pionier]

Last friday i bought a book about growing vegetables under glass. i so want to try this!
but.. i need to make a cold frame, don't have the means nor place in the small garden to do a green house.
On my allotment i rented a couple of years back, I had a couple of really lovely grapes growing as well as cucumbers and tomatoes (which are difficult to grow in open air here).
Thanks for keeping us posted, love what you do!

[tambo]

Nice job!

[Ramblin Wreck]

Now if you can grow a good tasting tomato in the Winter in that greenhouse, please post a pic.

[devittjl]

Planted peas and lettuce in my greenhouse yesterday. It was 27°F last night, ground outside the green house was a little frozen but inside was friable.
First time I have planted in January!!

[Tommyice]

I so want to get planting, but alas, still cold here.

Originally Posted by Ramblin Wreck

Now if you can grow a good tasting tomato in the Winter in that greenhouse, please post a pic.

I've spent some time studying up on that this morning, I've always thought you need some really nice hot days with long hours of sunlight, but it seems there are varieties that have been bred that are ideal for growing in a greenhouse. I'm not sure I am going to continue pursuing that right now, because I will be potting up seeds for my regular garden in about 4 more weeks. Still, some of my "early tomatoes" that I plant every year are supposedly designed for cool weather. I got up a couple volunteers(unknown variety, likely Carbon) before the last frost, they're a foot tall now, I'll stick them out there, and will pot up a dozen Siberian Reds today, just to see how they do in the greenhouse.

[Raeven]

I'm curious, zong, how many of your "early tomatoes" designed for cool weather were propagated from here in the PNW? I know there have been quite a few very successful Russian varieties as well.

[Jade1096]

Nice.

I've put in spinach and some lettuce.
It has dipped into the 20s occasionally this winter, but temps usually hover in the 40s.
I've been considering wintersowing, but I'm not sure if it would be worth the effort.

I've used the Siberian Red(or sometimes called Red Siberian) a lot, its a good tasting tomato 60 days. I also like this Manitoba, a 66 day tomato. I tried the Japanese Trifele which turned out to be a 60 day, although it was advertised as 70-80 day. Has fern type leaves. It's productive, but not much of an eating tomato. There is one called Beaverlodge Slicer that is supposed to be 52 days, from Alberta, Martin has it on his tomato giveaway in the gardening forum. I've tried Stupice before, a 52 day tomato.Paul Robeson is a really good tomato, 65 days. Most of those were developed in Russia, I believe. The Beaverlodge and Manitoba are surely Canadian. Not sure where any of the rest were first bred.

[Raeven]

Stupice is a Czechoslovakian. And Paul Robeson is a Russian. They are two of my favorites.

If you ever get the chance to get your paws on some Sunset Red Horizon, those are my favorites of all time. If I come by any seeds, I'll send you some.

Now you've got me all verklempt over the upcoming tomato growing season!!

Originally Posted by Raeven

Stupice is a Czechoslovakian. And Paul Robeson is a Russian. They are two of my favorites.

If you ever get the chance to get your paws on some Sunset Red Horizon, those are my favorites of all time. If I come by any seeds, I'll send you some.

Now you've got me all verklempt over the upcoming tomato growing season!!

Colonel Klink?? I'm lost...

[Raeven]

Verklempt is ---dish for "overcome with emotion." Sawwwwwrrrryyyy!!!

[Raeven]

Oh, FFS. Y-I-D-D-I-S-H.

Werner(pronounced Verner in German) Klemperer played Colonel Klink in the 60's comedy Hogan's Heroes
Verklempt...Verner Klemperer. I thought it was funny.

[Raeven]

LOL, sorry, zong... a hair too obtuse for me, I'm afraid...

No!! Arcane, not obtuse!! LOL. My head if full of everything little detail of anything unimportant. I mean, how many people could associate Colonel Klink with Verklempt? Form my perspective, all of them....

*sigh*
When Trivial Pursuit was a hot game, I was a god.....