Things are going well then. I hope we get some strawberries. Hubby covered them with straw and left it too long. About half the leaves are dead/brown. Hoping all recover. We get our crop usually in June.
Evaluating progress, this is where I think the containers are in producing food - listed by production at this time:
1. Strawberries are turning red and plants are healthy. They work fine in shallow containers about 5-6 inches deep.
2. Deck Corn seed from Burpee: I have to list the Deck Corn next as the majority of the 13 plants are 15 inches tall and solid plants. There are two in a container that finally came up using Jiffy Seed Starter and those two are about 4 inches tall, way behind the others that came up quickly using Espoma. This Deck Corn was designed to grow in containers on a deck and produce regular sized corn on the cob. The containers are large ones that would be suitable for a tomato plant. There are three plants in one container and four corn plants in two containers and the two little ones in another container. I would never have thought one could grow corn in a container. Now, I wait for actual corn to prove this can be done.
3. Next are the Egyptian Walking Onions in a long wood planter on the ground, filled with new potting soil mix. This is the onion to have. I planted these onion bulbs before winter set in. I did absolutely nothing to them, didn't protect them at all. They didn't care. They even grew green tops. With the first hint of spring, they began to grow quickly and are now forming new bulbs at the top that will fall over and that is their walk to another piece of soil. I can't eat them this year - they need another year to produce more and then eating can happen from then on. They won't die out and will produce onions from now on. I have other type onions growing to eat this year but won't need them next year, will use the walking ones.
4. Bulb onions I planted in two and three gallon fabric grow bags are healthy and the tops are about 14-15 inches tall.
5. Next is peppers. They take forever for me to grow from seeds. They have made up for that because they are healthy and growing tall, up to 8 inches for one, average is about 5-6 inches but they are taller every day. They are mainly in two gallon containers. Most are sweet and a couple are hot and most were designed to grow in containers.
6. Tromboncino Squash. The first one I planted is about 14 inches tall and taller every day with its broad, healthy leaves. It is in a 5 gallon container. The others suffered from being planted in Jiffy seed starter and didn't come up, so had to wait for Espoma and plant more, and there are five of those and are naturally smaller. They are in one, two, and three gallon pots. I want to see how the size of the pot will affect these T squash as those are the only ones I'll plant from now on.
7. Cucumbers in one gallon pots and smaller and they must be transplanted into three gallon pots. The best ones so far are Homemade Pickles and National Pickling Cucumber.
I don't know yet how the following will come out as they haven't made the progress of the ones reported above: Little Finger Carrots, Broccoli, Saint Anne lettuce, tobacco, Brussels sprouts, several types bunching onions, two types potatoes, and eight kinds of tomatoes. The tomatoes are in three gallon containers except for four that are in very large containers designed for two tomatoes in each container.
Sunflowers are about 6-7 inches tall and will be planted in the ground tomorrow. They are on their own after that.
They should be prolific
Strawberries are notoriously shallow rooted, and notided to revive with springtime warmth !