I started garlic inside last month. Hasn't done well, was store bought, so...meh...but I am transplanting it outside today.
Good luck, boys.
I have kept a sweet potato, the actual vine FROM the potato, NOT the vining plant you buy at box stores, Alive, all winter, in my basement, under gro lights and on top of a heat mat.
I cannot seem to start them, but my DD has started two...by accident.
This is NOT going out until June.
I took a master gardener's advice.
HE said to save gallon milk jugs (cleaned out, of course, with bleach), cut in two, put in potting soil and water, plant cool weather vegetables the right depth, tape the top back on and put outside to sprout.
I actually HAVEN't used the milk jugs (also, distilled water gallon jugs) yet. I have been using trash, like plastic containers that housed lunchmeat, an empty Hershey dry chocolate container, a 2 inch deep aluminum baking dish, etc.
I did the above, put the lids, sometimes red lids, on top and housed the others in gallon and 2 gallon labelled ziplock bags.
I have been filling my window wells with them bc, like often, today we expect 50 mph wind gusts.
The master gardener suggested leaving them for a few weeks before checking.
I have planted:
Garden Peas
Sugar Snap Peas
Sweet Peas (You should know that these are flowers)
Leeks
AND
I am using my 10 gallon (leaky) fish tank on the east facing glassed in porch, too.
I started OLD beefsteak and Roma tomatoes in it. Right now the glass lid, recycled from a truck topper, oversized, but covers, is off bc of the high's in the 60's which would bake my seeds.
Temperatures are dropping this weekend, lows below 32 degrees at night.
My tomatoes have been bagged, as I discussed above, so they won't dry out, and will retain heat.
I am sure I will be checking in a week to see their progress.
I STILL have lots of refridgerator and shelving space for other crops left.
!] ... why doesn't TEG have some regular members from Kansas?)
