Inside Starts, Yours & Mine

[digitS']

Because you like to grow them!

And, because you like challenges!

They are beauties.

Steve

 

[thistlebloom]

Brought the potatoes in to start chitting. This is the first time EVER that I will be growing from my own harvest. We usually don't have any left for the garden.
I have Bintje, Caribe,(not my favorite, but they were rolling their little eyes and saying "take me! take me!"), Magic Molly, and some store bought Purple Viking.

I'm also starting some more Japonica Striped maize, though I have not a clue where I'll put it. Might just have to copy Steve and set up a little hoopy outside for the tougher stuff.

 

[the1honeycomb]

nice we buy apples from costco the plastic trays they come in are perfect for starting seeds, and the apples are YUM
Brownies??? did someone say brownies??? now i'm hungry

 

[digitS']

I wonder if those individual compartments can be cut apart with scissors, imagine so.

Finding the best size for what your growing and proper depth of the soil, is a little tricky. There could probably be some rule of thumb about seedling container soil depth. Something like the 3 times the diameter of the seed planting depth. Then, it is times 7. Or, something like that.

Most garden seed would be fairly standard but things like snapdragon seed should really go in shallow soil, shallow containers.

Steve
came back to edit misspelled and add in a "what" . . !

 

[catjac1975]

My plants are lush but I think they are too big too soon.

 

[digitS']

I realized this evening that I have bought very little time by going to 18/flat with those earliest tomatoes. It isn't so much that they are growing like crazy. We have had a good deal of clouds lately - they are stretching.

They are also competing with each other, as they always do. And, there isn't sufficient sunlight. Even when there is, the heat rockets up in a matter of minutes! Weak growth is the result of these conditions. I wish the outdoor air was warmer and I could allow more air to move thru.

I'll need to "checkerboard" the pots, going to 9/tray and begin to place bamboo stakes for support in the pots right away. A few next week, many more, the week following . . . if I was a big-time greenhouse operator, I'd just spray them with B-9, growth regulator.

Steve

 

[thistlebloom]

My plants are lush but I think they are too big too soon.View attachment 2120

Ooooo Cat! I like that!

 

[HotPepperQueen]

I realized this evening that I have bought very little time by going to 18/flat with those earliest tomatoes. It isn't so much that they are growing like crazy. We have had a good deal of clouds lately - they are stretching.

They are also competing with each other, as they always do. And, there isn't sufficient sunlight. Even when there is, the heat rockets up in a matter of minutes! Weak growth is the result of these conditions. I wish the outdoor air was warmer and I could allow more air to move thru.

I'll need to "checkerboard" the pots, going to 9/tray and begin to place bamboo stakes for support in the pots right away. A few next week, many more, the week following . . . if I was a big-time greenhouse operator, I'd just spray them with B-9, growth regulator.

Steve

My tomatoes only lasted in the 18/flat for maybe 2 weeks? It took me 4 days to transplant them all

 

[the1honeycomb]

I thought I was the only one with less than 5 acre gardens!! I don't have a protected area, the chickens have figured out how to get under the fence all those beautiful seedlings eaten! Steve your welcome to come plant in my back yard! I blocked off the openings the birds were so happy to find and started again!

 

[digitS']

@the1honeycomb , I am the goopp gardener. That's gardening on other people's property.

It goes back to the vacant lot across the alley in 1993, I believe it was. Of course, a garden at the greenhouses where I worked (late 70's/early 80's), seemed like a natural thing to do there. A person needs some recreation!

When I lived way out in the sticks in the 70's, I farmed ground across the road. The owners lived several miles away. That's a common sort of thing to do. A farmer I used to work for worked almost as many acres for other people than he owned. I just do that by the square foot.

Steve