Pulsegleaner
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Assam lemon cuttings are planted for rooting, as are the kernels from the greengage and other plum pits. I put ALL of them in to be sure (well, all that still had the growing tip intact,) so depending on how many actually sprout, I'll have to do some SERIOUS thinning. Have to do the same with the lemons, probably (I got six scions because I don't have experience rooting cuttings and wanted to hedge my bets, but, in the end, I only have room for ONE final tree.
Having a second go with the chestnuts up in my room as well. The first sprouts failed due to feline interference (Juniper started digging in the pot and kept going until he emptied it more or less.) But when I recovered the bag with the rest of the nuts that hadn't germinated at the first time, another dozen or so had. And, since the mung bean plant is gone now, I had a big pot with nothing in it, so in they went, pot was watered, and we'll see what develops (if they're already germinated, shoot growth should not take too long).
Probably time to start the things that get started indoors soon, like the garlics and the pansies. Conventional wisdom says it's time to start tomato seeds as well, but, given how late the actual warm weather has been most years, I think that, if I did start them now, they'd be to leggy and etiolated by the time I put them out to be able to thrive (I am willing to stake tomato plants when I have to, but, in general, a tomato plant that needs to be staked when it is still basically just a seedling is not going to do well, they need to get the thickness of stem that comes from growing out in the wind and the rain.)
Favas and peas will probably get sown in three to four weeks; in pots so I can keep them mobile (with our crazy weather, I think the best bet for any cool weather crop succeeding is to set it up so it can be outside in the better weather, but still be capable of being hauled in in case of a late hard/long freeze. I'm now sort of GLAD we don't have the soil for lettuce, rigging up a mobile for THAT that was big enough to produce enough for any use would be extremely cumbersome.)
Having a second go with the chestnuts up in my room as well. The first sprouts failed due to feline interference (Juniper started digging in the pot and kept going until he emptied it more or less.) But when I recovered the bag with the rest of the nuts that hadn't germinated at the first time, another dozen or so had. And, since the mung bean plant is gone now, I had a big pot with nothing in it, so in they went, pot was watered, and we'll see what develops (if they're already germinated, shoot growth should not take too long).
Probably time to start the things that get started indoors soon, like the garlics and the pansies. Conventional wisdom says it's time to start tomato seeds as well, but, given how late the actual warm weather has been most years, I think that, if I did start them now, they'd be to leggy and etiolated by the time I put them out to be able to thrive (I am willing to stake tomato plants when I have to, but, in general, a tomato plant that needs to be staked when it is still basically just a seedling is not going to do well, they need to get the thickness of stem that comes from growing out in the wind and the rain.)
Favas and peas will probably get sown in three to four weeks; in pots so I can keep them mobile (with our crazy weather, I think the best bet for any cool weather crop succeeding is to set it up so it can be outside in the better weather, but still be capable of being hauled in in case of a late hard/long freeze. I'm now sort of GLAD we don't have the soil for lettuce, rigging up a mobile for THAT that was big enough to produce enough for any use would be extremely cumbersome.)
But I do play Scrabble quite a bit, so anything that gives me an advantage is a w.
