7th Weekend Gardening: Transplanting, and thinning.

Transplanting, replanting and thinning seedlings week.

The single okra plant was already showing sign of withering, while the twin okra plants are still growing new leaves. I suspect I might have damaged the root of the single okra plant when I moved it to the new pot. I decided to keep the twin okra plants, and use the other pot to start up a new plant...baby blue jade corns!

Withering okra; time to replace...

Twin okra plant with new leaves

...with baby blue jade corn seed!

Since we were having problems with birds (and a mouse) digging through our planters for seeds, I used some of our small plastic drinking bottles as protective cover for the newly sowed corn seeds. I just cut off the bottom of the bottles and set it firmly around the planted seed. Once the seedling has sprouted, I can easily remove bottle. Oh yeah, the bottle is uncapped to promote proper ventilation.

The sunflowers were growing too close to each other.

Good germination rate, seedlings growing too close together

I did not want to just cut off the extra seedlings since it look so healthy. Moreover, it is one of Adele's favorite flowers. Therefore, I transplanted the extra sunflowers seedlings into a new pot. I hope that I did a better transplanting job this time.

Original 1st sunflower pot

2nd sunflower pot, seedling are transplanted to this pot.

We also spent some time to thin out some of the carrot seedlings that are growing in a crossroad shape. 

Instead of pulling the plant out, we just use a scissor to cut them off.

After thinning, still seems like a bit crowded.

As for the rest of the plants status, you can see from the photos below.

Cherry Tomato

Yard Long Bean

Bird's eye chili aka "Chili Padi"

As of week 7, this is how my vegetable garden looks like.