Hi All,
Tuesday, I spent nine hours cleaning out wees and two hours planting
seeds. I am still soar! But Since Herbal medicinae is one of my
hobbies, I hit the BF&D (bone, flesh , and cartilage) pretty hard and
most of the soreness is down.
We are not suppose to plant to the first week in June, due to the random freezes, but we are having a hot spell (80F day and 50 night), so I took
the risk and planted anyway.
I have terrible luck with tiny seeds. But I took the risk
and planted two types of onions, eggplant, and tomatillos which have
tiny seeds. After June I can not get ANYTHING
to sprout up. I presume it is the heat cooking them in
the soil, but I do not know. It could be the earwigs eating them too.
So now I wait and wonder if anything will sprout. Oh, and complain
about the feed hurting, my back hurting, my legs hurting, yada, yada,
yada...
And how the hell did my head get sunburned whilst
wearing this hat !?!?!
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B086GG1X3M
Most of the seeds went in in the dark. I had
to switch my headlamp to Red and the bugs
attached me with white. Gave me a start when
some of the seed packed in white paper envelopes
and white seeds. The seed disappeared under
red light. I thought they had shipped me an
empty packet. Temporarily switching back
to white light solved that issue.
The waiting on the sprouting is driving me nuts.
PATIENCE!!!!
On 5/21/23 13:28, T wrote:
Hi All,
Tuesday, I spent nine hours cleaning out wees and two hours planting
seeds. I am still soar! But Since Herbal medicinae is one of my
hobbies, I hit the BF&D (bone, flesh , and cartilage) pretty hard and
most of the soreness is down.
We are not suppose to plant to the first week in June, due to the
random freezes, but we are having a hot spell (80F day and 50 night),
so I took the risk and planted anyway.
I have terrible luck with tiny seeds. But I took the risk
and planted two types of onions, eggplant, and tomatillos which have
tiny seeds. After June I can not get ANYTHING
to sprout up. I presume it is the heat cooking them in
the soil, but I do not know. It could be the earwigs eating them too.
So now I wait and wonder if anything will sprout. Oh, and complain
about the feed hurting, my back hurting, my legs hurting, yada, yada,
yada...
And how the hell did my head get sunburned whilst
wearing this hat !?!?!
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B086GG1X3M
Most of the seeds went in in the dark. I had
to switch my headlamp to Red and the bugs
attached me with white. Gave me a start when
some of the seed packed in white paper envelopes
and white seeds. The seed disappeared under
red light. I thought they had shipped me an
empty packet. Temporarily switching back
to white light solved that issue.
The waiting on the sprouting is driving me nuts.
PATIENCE!!!!
And I have been watering the tiny sees every
day since. But today we are having a
thunderstorm, so I get to skip out.
I love thunderstorms, fertilizer from the
sky (electricity + nitrogen + rain)
I have terrible luck with tiny seeds. But I took the risk
and planted two types of onions,
T wrote:
...
I have terrible luck with tiny seeds. But I took the risk
and planted two types of onions,
in sandy or more mineral soils it might be
really hard to keep the adequately moist.
watering once a day may not be enough in
any kind of heat. and i don't mean super
soggy watering, but just enough to keep them
more uniformly moist.
songbird
Why didn't you start stuff indoors ?
On 5/21/23 16:00, Snag wrote:
Why didn't you start stuff indoors ?
My wife is violently allergic to the mold in dirt
On 5/21/23 18:47, Snag wrote:
On 5/21/2023 7:19 PM, T wrote:
On 5/21/23 16:00, Snag wrote:
Why didn't you start stuff indoors ?
My wife is violently allergic to the mold in dirt
That has got to put a major crimp on cultivation of any sort since
your growing season is shorter . Any way you could do an attached (to
the outside of the house) small hotbox for starting seedlings ?
Attached to the south side , being attached it draws some heat from
the house . We're ahead of y'all here , I've got 'maters a foot tall
already . I did start mine inside , end of February . Since my corn
came up spotty - old seed - I planted some red ripper and purple hull
field peas in the gaps in the corn rows today . Right after I built 40
feet of (wire and string) trellis for the green beans since they have
started running .
I have though of one of those sprouting tables on wheels
with their own blue/red led lamps for the garage. But
I have not gone that much further.
I'd love a green house, but maybe in my next life
I could afford one.
What is a hot box? Can it survive freazing cold weather?
The waiting on the sprouting is driving me nuts.
PATIENCE!!!!
On 5/23/23 19:31, T wrote:
On 5/21/23 13:28, T wrote:
The waiting on the sprouting is driving me nuts.
PATIENCE!!!!
One week now and still no sprouts. This
patience thing sucks!
Twelve days in and I have sprouts! Dicots (zuchini,
cucumbers, tomatillos) and monocots (white and bunching
onions)!
The dicot sprouts in the eggplant section might be
weeds though.
If this actually works out, I will have saved a
ton of money not having to buy plants at the green
house (wally world).
Oh and my bilberry bushes, now four years old,
have had a massive growth spurt and have a bazillion
immature lowers on them! They got a lot of water too.
Odd the three cherry tomato plants I did buy at the
nursery have a few flowers on them and they are not
even five inches tall yet. They look happy with all the water.
Thunderstorms are forecast again today. I good
drenching with sky Nitrogen water and I don't
have to go out and water today. Love the way
things grow after a good thunder storm. Well
except the weeds.
Whoever told me to water the daylights out of
the seeds, snag I think, was spot on. Thank you!
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