Posted on 04/11/2014 12:34:19 PM PDT by greeneyes
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Hope you get to feeling fit as a fiddle soon. I’ll have to check out that website.
Nah, that’s cuz they were city boys. LOL
LOL!
See my post 118. When I first started gardening, I was looking at stuff to grow some veggies inside. Ran across several websites that had grow closets some were diguised as computer speakers etc.
Course they didn’t say they were for growing weed. In fact they specifically tried to pretend it was for legitimate purpose.
It was as obvious as the nose on your face what their real purpose was.
“Ran across several websites that had grow closets some were diguised as computer speakers etc.”
I can see why that would make cops wonder why someone would grow a tomato plant or cuke in a disguised closet.
It’s those fake GMO veggies that should be hidden away from view.
Just got in from cutting some asparagus and dumping about 40 starting cups of mix that wouldn’t produce a plant. That’s far too many. Also, shoved the tomatoes and peppers against the house but may need to bring them back into the garage.
Looks like the chore today is cutting the tops out of those milk jugs we’ve been saving. Why? Yep, uh huh, I was right, again. What say you, A&M? We’re supposed to be getting bad storms again today and tomorrow and a freeze Monday/Tuesday night. I get lulled, aka spring fever, into believing A&M to plant on March 15 but KNOW not to until April 15. So, what date is this last freeze? Yes, boys and girls, it’s April 15.
I have a forecast of 36 for Monday and Tuesday night. I hope by the end of today that number will go up. If it doesn’t, I’ll have to pull out the row covers again and cover every plant out there.
I have 30% chance of rain today and 40% tonight.
I surveyed the “farm” this morning, and the lettuce in the long wood planter on the ground with net over it, is NOT producing lettuce. I only see a tiny amount of lettuce up and it should all be up. It is EZ Serve Lettuce, the seeds on a strip - I planted two strips and followed directions and the potting soil mix was brand new.
Later, I planted St. Anne’s Slow-bolting lettuce in a 3 or 4 ft. hard plastic planter, and it’s growing by leaps and bounds.
I have to do something with that long wood planter lettuce that isn’t growing. Do I plant another strip which this first one has failed, or do I plant single seed St. Anne’s that has proven it will grow?
I could do that right now today with rain coming either today or tonight or Monday but it’s supposed to get in high 30s Monday and Tuesday night. Do I wait until Wednesday before I replant? What would you do? Plant today or Wed., and plant which lettuce?
I'd wait until Wed on the lettuce. And plant what grows best. The goal is leafy greens for salad and sammiches. It's not very complicated. ;)
/johnny
Well, shoot, I don’t have any more Saint Anne’s lettuce seed. So, now, the question is, do I plant the seed tape again (and when) or go to Lowes to buy some other kind of single lettuce seed? I had ordered the Saint Anne’s so don’t know if Lowes would have that.
OK, I’ll wait until Wednesday but what about being out of Saint Anne’s lettuce? Would you try that seed tape again or go buy single lettuce seed?
/johnny
That means using the seed tape Wednesday. I’ve looked at the package again and it says, “Keep Evenly Moist. Seedlings emerge in 7-10 days.” Maybe I didn’t keep it moist enough - I didn’t water it every day. I’ll try it again and if it doesn’t come up in that time period given, I’ll get other lettuce single seed. Thanks for helping me sort this out.
“Just got in from cutting some asparagus and dumping about 40 starting cups of mix that wouldn’t produce a plant.”
That’s what happened when I used Jiffy seed starter, NO PLANTS. The Espoma seed starter is magnificent. I’d use potting soil mix before I would use Jiffy seed starter. What kind did you use?
/johnny
knew that.
Miracle Grow starter in little styro cups and plastic cat food containers. I had posted back in Jan/Feb that this year’s mix of pnp was a different formula than last year’s and wondered if that would make a difference. The seeds were 2-3 years old which would cause a lower germination but only 35% of the cole crops made it to the garden.
The peppers and tomatoes have done much better if you don’t count two whole trays that didn’t do squat. Those were planted during the barren time according to by the moon planting. Not that I follow the moon’s phases but it proved true. FYI, various baking pans and plastic plant flats are what I call trays.
The runner variety peanuts were started in one of those little plastic teeny tiny starter trays with a mixture of about 3/4 potting soil and 1/4 this year’s MG starter. The only reason they were in that teeny space was just a test to see if they’d even germinate. I wasn’t going to hold my breath or waste mix. Despite being in the freezer for 15 years (not a typo!), they had nearly a 90% germination and were growing great guns by the minute. Wish I’d known they were going to be so vigorous as it’d have made a great hour by hour slide show.
I put chili petin in a bottle of vinegar. It makes a flavorful drizzle for a salad.
/johnny
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