…a lot has happened here, both online and outside our home. Bad: Ultimately, I did not convey nearly as much here on this site as we actually did outside. Good: We did manage to get a lot more done outside this year than we did the last two. Hooray for progress! Continue reading “In the year 2019 for Growing in Gardner…”
Tag: seedlings
Transfer seedlings: too dried out or too much handling?
In my head, I know it’s one thing to have what you need on hand and at least in an easy to grab place. It’s another thing to go a step further and do as much as you can within reason before starting something. Somehow, such foreknowledge slipped through the sieve of my brain and now I’m trying to salvage some transplants as a result.
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Cilantro: “We don’t want to go on the compost. We feel fine!”
While doing dishes, I noticed a bit of green inside one of the mini mason jar greenhouses. Sure enough, at least one of the herbs was making it know that they were not, in fact, dead. Continue reading “Cilantro: “We don’t want to go on the compost. We feel fine!””
Only one of these four is a spider.
There may be some ghosts of seedlings past after all.
A third type of leaf formation has presented itself on the now third seedling/baby that has pushed past the soil in the spider plant pot. Continue reading “There may be some ghosts of seedlings past after all.”
Rainy day, transplanted the pumpkin and corn seedlings
I hadn’t even given a thought as to whether some kitchen garden plants might suffer from being started indoors. Then I found a list that went into some examples of what is ok, what isn’t ideal, and what not to start indoors. As I scanned the list, then I started worrying about the corn in particular.
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