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    Reusing & Recycling

    What a cute nautical themed pillow Dahlia-- nicely done! 🐚
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    Peony planting questions

    Not sure if you have seen the thread called 'Peonies' yet, but if not that thread has a bunch of information as well. 😊
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    Hello 👋

    A warm welcome from British Columbia! :)
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    Branching Out's Seeds and Sprouts

    Good point Flowerbug-- I didn't think of that. So far I am using seeds that I have an abundance of. I am going to be up to my eye balls in Alpine Poblano seedlings, because they are germinating like crazy with this method. Also, the first cucumbers are forming on my Bushcrop plants. Exciting!
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    Branching Out's Seeds and Sprouts

    This is an idea that I got from a grower who germinates his chilis in vermiculite, and decided to give it a try. When it worked I decided to try some other seeds as well. I suspect that not all seeds will germinate using this method as the moisture level is so high, so some trial and error...
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    Branching Out's Seeds and Sprouts

    I've been playing around with pre-germinating seeds for a few days under damp paper towel, and then moving them to vermiculite that is saturated with water to sprout. Given that the seeds are more or less drenched in moisture you would think that they would rot, but that does not appear to be...
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    A Seed Saver's Garden

    What a gorgeous pepper plant! The leaves look so huge, and healthy. 😍
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    Branching Out's Seeds and Sprouts

    Yesterday we were basking in warm sunshine, and admiring the simple beauty of spring crocuses.☀️
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    Adventures in Soil Blocking

    So sorry to hear about your seedlings keeling over GottaGo. Is that perennial shrubby sage that you are growing? Last year I tried growing several perennials from seed including Compact Golden Flax and Rhubarb, and while they seemed to do alright when I started them indoors, most of them...
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    Your Weather, 2024

    We woke up to 2" of lovely pure white snow blanketing the garden, the heavy kind of snow that coats all of the tree branches and weighs them down. I am half hoping that it sticks around for a few days, because they are forecasting unusually frigid night time lows of -6C(21F) later this week...
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    Adventures in Soil Blocking

    Cool looking set up! I especially like the labelling matrix that you have in place. 😍
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    Adventures in Soil Blocking

    Thanks Flowerbug-- I'm have having a really good time with this. ☺️
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    What Did You Do In The Garden?

    Wow-- the lights look wonderful Phaedra. Your tomatoes will love you for it. Nice work! 😍
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    Adventures in Soil Blocking

    I 💚 spring too! One of the things I like best about pre-germinating seeds is that I get to observe the seeds as they change. First they swell up a bit, and sometimes the seed even changes colour; I am noticing that many pepper seeds sometimes take on a purple cast. Then when the radicle...
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    Adventures in Soil Blocking

    This is such encouraging news GottaGo-- I am so very glad to hear that you are having success with using the 1.5" blocker. I think for most people that would be the idea size as it is suitable for most seeds-- and it is definitely the size that I am using most often. My tomatoes can stay in...
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    Your Weather, 2024

    We just made it through two days of wicked wind with really powerful gusts (and cold too). Today was much calmer so I tried to pull some weeds including forget-me-nots, but the plants were frozen to the soil and wouldn't budge. Lol. Now it's been snowing for several hours and the garden is...
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    What Did You Do In The Garden?

    Nice spacing-- what will you be planting in the depressions made by the muffin pan? :)
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    Recycled Items for Gardening Purposes

    I think it should work very nicely. Last summer I used sturdy white plastic-coated wire baskets to create something akin to tent frames over trays of seedlings. I would invert the baskets over the trays, and then clip row cover over top. The basket mesh was easy to clip on to, and it kept the...
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    Ranunculas

    It would appear that a critter got in to one of my ranunculas bins last night, and now there is a bit of a mess to clean up. I should have covered the bins with row cover to keep them out; there was even a piece of row cover hanging on a chair right next to the bins. The pesky varmint may have...
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