Who is starting seeds indoors this season?

[ducks4you]

Haven't started my onion seeds yet. Just picked them up this Friday but they will be planted soon. I have a sun room -- stays at least 40 degrees in the coldest of our temperatures -- so I can start the onions out there without grow lights. They do take a bit of time to look like they are happy to be growing, but they will grow. And those early plantings will give you better onion plants when it's time to put them outside.

Once mine get over three inches tall, I take a pair of sharp scissors and give them an inch haircut. It seems to me that clipping them enourages new leaf growth and stronger plants much like pinching centers out of marigolds encourages bushy plants.

I'm going to be giving mine a haircut soon. Glad you reminded me about marigolds. I need to harvest seeds. If you don't know, every marigold flower can produce something like 50 seeds. If you harvest them, even in the dead of winter, you may never have to buy the seeds again.

 

[ducks4you]

I didn't know it was legal to grow pot in Ill.

THANX RICH

OK Smartypants!! I am leaving my lights on for 16 hrs/day on a timer, and I wanted a place and a shelf where I wouldn't have a fire hazard.
I am adding the 2nd gro light today, btw.

 

[Beekissed]

I just realized I have a bunch of old small onions growing like crazy in the dark basement. I wonder if I could grow new bulb onions from them if I cut off the tops and plant them? They are the dregs of some I grew from plants last year. Candy or something similar.

@so lucky ,

doesn't it seem likely that they would bolt to seed?

That could provide you with seed for next year's onions.

Steve

They say that's a good way to get onion seed! What have you got to lose? Since they are second year, they would likely go to seed for you.

 

[majorcatfish]

Sure it is! You just gotta put it in the basement and not tell nobody.

wonder if you can do a florida weave growing pot..... works for tomatoes

 

[Smart Red]

I am so [_]. Here I sit trying to imagine weaving a pot out of growing plants and wondering why. Man oh man!

 

[ninnymary]

I had these on top of the fridge. They had a plastic bag wrapped around them and I forgot to check them. Are they too leggy? They are Larissa’s Russian Beauty tomatoes.

 

[dickiebird]

View attachment 24501 I had these on top of the fridge. They had a plastic bag wrapped around them and I forgot to check them. Are they too leggy? They are Larissa’s Russian Beauty tomatoes.

I would repot them with about 3/4" above the soil. Try and get the ones that are solo's repotted with a good bit of the soil they are in right now, separate the rest as best you can before repotting...

THANX RICH

 

[ninnymary]

I would repot them with about 3/4" above the soil. Try and get the ones that are solo's repotted with a good bit of the soil they are in right now, separate the rest as best you can before repotting...

THANX RICH

I wasn't sure if I could do that. They are just babies.

Mary

 

[Gardening with Rabbits]

I am going to buy this little greenhouse for the patio. I have the sawhorse greenhouse and I always rig up plastic over an old porch swing frame, but I cannot get in and water correctly and really just a mess. I have the small version of this greenhouse I put in my kitchen and the seeds sprout even with, our house freezing at night when the fire goes out. The trays sit on top of the lights and warms the bottom, like being on top of refrigerator. I have the plastic cover and then throw an old plastic tablecloth over that. The one for outside, I am going to hang a heat lamp from the top. I can walk in and water things standing up instead of crawling around on the ground moving flats back and forth. https://www.amazon.com/Plant-Large-...rd_wg=8o8Ui&psc=1&refRID=QJA39QMCFADKZ4RK7P4Y

 

[ducks4you]

View attachment 24501 I had these on top of the fridge. They had a plastic bag wrapped around them and I forgot to check them. Are they too leggy? They are Larissa’s Russian Beauty tomatoes.

So funny to me! I didn't look at my shelving unit and described YOUR metal weave to the guy at the hardware store. So, naturally, I bought the wrong bolts. Mine has long E-W white, painted hardware, with a couple of N-S pieces for stability.
Fortunately I had extra bolts of the right kind, so the new ones will just go into one of the drawers in the tool shed for aNOTHER project.
Regarding your tomatoes, your could find a cardboard box to put them on top of to get closer to the light. We ALL have grown leggy vegetables. Just experiment. Tomatoes can be transplanted AFTER the 2nd set of leaves and buried up to the top to make those "hairs" become new roots, so no real problem.