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Seedlings Update

Seedlings Update

Little baby plants.

Everything has sprouted, but many of my little plants are already looking a little bit leggy. I think the lights are too far above the baby plants. I think today I will move them from the kitchen counter to a table in the basement, where I can clamp an adjustable lamp and arrange it much closer to the plants.

This will be useful, since we are now spending a lot more time at the kitchen table so that we can be close to the puppy, who spends a good deal of his time gated into the kitchen with its easily cleaned tile floors.

Hopefully this weekend I’ll be able to get two more trays going. I have a lot of flower seeds to start, and I want to do a full tray of basils. I also found kale seeds, finally, as well as zucchini which I somehow managed to forget in my first round of buying.

Outside things are starting to feel like spring, and it’s time to get to work on the garden bed. I have one main kitchen garden, and this year I want to add another bed somewhere out front. Or maybe two beds. Or maybe four small ones, arranged in a more formal garden. I need to make some decisions before getting the shovel out.

Starting the Seeds

Starting the Seeds

Thing 2 sowing tomato seeds.

This weekend Thing and I got to work sprouting our seeds. We filled two trays with seed starting mix and sprinkled in seeds for tomato, lettuce, pepper, broccoli, parsley, chives, red onions, and cukes.

Sowing the seeds was great fun. Plopping each future plant into the soil got us more and more excited about that wonderful day sometime in our future when we’ll be eating our first harvest of home grown goodness for the year. Seeds have so much potential in them!

After sowing the seeds, they got a generous sprinkling of water and a clear cover to create little greenhouses. These are sitting on the kitchen table waiting for seedlings to appear. I have pretty much given up on using the kitchen table for anything other than seedlings for at least the next 8 weeks, but in the meantime I get to have a whole bunch of life sprouting in the kitchen.

So far only the lettuces are showing any signs of life, but I hope that by the weekend I will have some wonderful photos of baby food plants to share.