Plantlife as digitS' Sees It!

[digitS']

On a windy, stormy morning . . . the sun came out this afternoon and stayed out for a couple hours! Maybe I should have waited to take the picture.

I have to bring a dang half sheet of plywood in soon to increase the table space! Two more cookie boxes coming to the window near me by tomorrow morning . . .

Trying to make the garden, a better place.

Plantlife as

digitS'

Sees It

 

[so lucky]

Looking good! You're not having to eat the box full of cookies to get the empty box, are you?

 

[thistlebloom]

Looks good Steve! You know, I hate to admit this, but I haven't got a single seed started. Yes I'm quite embarrassed by this, but my inertia stems from the fact that right when they will need to be hardened off and planted out we will be driving to Missouri.
I'm feeling a bit more inspired by seeing your babies so maybe tomorrow I'll haul everything out and get started.
I'll just have to figure things out when the time comes to leave.

 

[digitS']

SoLucky, it is a sacrifice that someone has to make . . .



That is a very long drive, Thistle'!! I don't think I'm early - Heaven only knows! The tomatoes should all require 2 transplants, finishing in 3 - 4" pots. I'll start some more for 48-cell flats. Nothing at all wrong with those size plants for setting out. Older plants are almost more trouble than they are worth.

TEG people who have been around awhile must be coming to understand that digitS' gets fairly stressed-out about the time of the last frost. Root-bound plants and the risk of a killing frost -- man, I should just be sitting around in a lotus position . . .

Steve

 

[lesa]

Looking good! I started getting ready yesterday, big plans for the weekend. I am going to take the risk and direct seed a bunch of stuff. I know it's kind of crazy- but this weather is kind of crazy!

 

[ninnymary]

Steve, I believe those lines I see in the container are markers? You plant different things in one container?

Mary

 

[Collector]

Looks good steve, When you go to transplant those plants do you tear them apart or cut them apart with a knife? I have started our seeds also And have a small jungle growing already. We really should have waited, We do not have the outdoor facility to handle the amount we have planted. we will just have to haul them in and out of the house everyday untill planting time. I'm not jumping the gun next year (maybe).

 

[digitS']

That's right Mary, you can see them easier here.

They are all 1 species/box, Mary. But, look at that sandwich box I just brought in from the nice warm kitchen. (Someone had to empty that sandwich box, SoLucky .) Those are eggplants and I'm a little concerned that none of the long Asian types have emerged in the greater warmth of the kitchen . . . Still, those Duskies need to be out where they can get some sun . . . Now, where's the sun???

The lids were cut off and now serve as trays. Are they all "clamshell" containers? Anyway, I think that for most people who would like to use them - the sandwich boxes would be preferred over the cookie boxes just because they are of a smaller size. Depth is important because the roots also need room. When it comes time to "tear them apart," Collector, I like to use the pointy end of a spoon. Yeah, a spoon handle isn't sharp but it can tease the seedlings out with me holding onto a leaf - seed leaf is best. Then, I poke a hole in the soil filled 4 or 6-pack and drop them in that. After a good soaking from the bottom in tub of water, they settle in nicely.

Depending how many I decide to keep, many of these (all the tomatoes) will be moved 1 more time into 3 to 4-inch pots. That's a simple process of just pushing them out of the pony pack from the bottom. They get plunked in an empty pot and potting soil is used to fill in around them. Back in the tub . . .

BTW, I was able to avoid bringing in the plywood for another day or 2 by switching things to my oollddd plant table. The thing was old when I was using it 25 years ago. Despite not having rollers, which would make it a little handier when I close the drapes at night, the table fits awfully well in that window. (Just wish that I could join it a little more comfortably here at the computer . . . ummph!)

Steve

Edited to Add: many of the smaller plants are snapdragons and asters. They will be moved into 4 or 6-packs and stay there until being moved out into the garden. Remember the picture of those ice-covered plants from last year, or was it the year before last ?

 

[digitS']

They have escaped the house and taken up residence in the greenhouse!! They are out there as the rain falls - but I will be joining them in their heated playhouse in a few minutes for a few hours of transplanting into flats. With what I expect to be nearly constant clouds over the next few days, the timing should be about right. Here they are in the sunlight, yesterday:

potted rosemary on the floor beneath them

Thistle' was wondering (elsewhere) if I have "anything for thermal mass, like water barrels or rock." You can see that I have unpainted, redwood 2 by 4's soaking up sunlight!

Steve

 

[897tgigvib]

Ah nice!