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The grass roots efforts are inspiring.
The boys pruned the orchard. Brandt sprayed the dormant oil.
I pruned the grape vines. We planted 4 peach trees and two apricot.
Today we are planting the potatoes.
We have a little garden growing in soil blocks but I didn't get near as many seeds started as I wanted to. The most important, tomatoes, look great though.
Brian's radishes are growing nicely in the flower bed.
The seeds I planted last fall in the cold frames germinated finally. I suppose the appreciated the rain that they get now that the glass is broken.
What happened to my header? I really don't have time to mess with blog design. This place might look dull for awhile.
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- dill
- dried chili pepper
- eggplant
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- fennel ?? can I ??
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- green beans
- green peas
- honey, thanks to a bee swarm!
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- lamb
- leeks
- milk and yogurt from Blair
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- oregano
- parsley
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5 comments:
I'm assuming you're in zone 5? We are in zone 5 (I think) here in northern Indiana. We are new to the whole seed starting thing. I ordered about $40 worth of seeds from Baker Creek...thanks to your blog post about them! I've got my tomato and pepper seeds started (yesterday...hopefully not too late in the season?). Just wanted to let you know that you've inspired me!
About seed starting: do you do anything special to prevent damping off? I tried seeds (instead of starters) for the first time this year, and we lost pretty much all of our seedlings. So...my father gave our family some starters and we are back to that. I don't want to give up on seeds, but I don't know what I'm doing wrong, and all of my books don't seem to have any corrective measures I can take...
Brandy,
I found this link:
http://davesgarden.com/guides/articles/view/277/
He has some good ideas. I learned a lot! I'm so new at this and hoping I don't mess anything up and end up wasting gobs of money!
Hope that helps!
We had a damping off problem this year on one tray. I can't give you all the reasons for damping off. I'm not an expert. In my experience it has everything to do with too much water and not enough air movement. When the seeds are germinating, spray the top of the soil to keep it damp. If the soil is too dry, they won't germinate, of course. Once they are growing taller, start watering from the bottom, put water in the tray. But don't let the soil get soggy. The seedlings also like air movement so keep the ceiling fan on low or have a box fan running in the room on low. Just enough so that there is air flow in the room. In my case this year, I had lots of little children who loved to spray the soil blocks. One day, half the tray of brassicas were laid over. I immediately stopped them from spraying and the fun was over. It is not nearly the delight to water the plants anymore. So then we lost some of the remaining brassicas to drought.
I've read many times that you should only use sterile soil. I don't believe it. I've had damping off with sterile soil also. I think it has to do with too much top moisture or moisture on the stems of tiny seedlings and not enough ventilation.
Thank you both for your direction and advice. I do wonder if zealous little ones might be part of my problem, now that you mention it. Carmen, I will definitely be reading that article.
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