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Holy Root Growth!

cab321
12 years ago

The weather is supposed to be nice and warm for the rest of the week, the beds were prepped and the ground was nice and moist. So I decided that I would take a huge risk and try transplanting my poppies today. I have read that they need to be transplanted early and mine have hit the first true leaf stage.

WOW! They may only have one real set of leaves that just popped out two days ago, but wow - those are some enormous roots! They're already about 5 or 6 inches long. And on such teeny, tiny baby plants. I couldn't believe it.

Then I moved on to transplant a few things in the vegetable garden (kale, broccoli, lettuce, chard). I'm probably pushing these and should have left them in the containers longer - but couldn't help myself. Again - those roots! They're unbelievable.

I hope everything takes. I only did one container of poppies today because I was too scared of killing them all.

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