Tuesday, 17 March 2009

• Long overdue update: Starting plants indoors

  So, two weekends ago, my Dad got Mom some mini greenhouses for starting seeds indoors.
  The day after that Sunday, we put all the seeds in all the little non-dirt, dirt...things, and five days later, things started sprouting. Since then, I've transplanted some things out of there, more things have gotten bigger, etc. But here are pictures from the first week so that I can clear out my camera and take new ones:

  
  ^ Brocoli!

  
  My dandy's. OK, so I started these last November...but now that the light's stronger they've gotten much bigger.

  
  Each of the mini greenhouses has a list of what's in it on them. They'll need revising several times before the risk of frost is done with, if this rate of growth is any indication. As you can tell, this flat has kohlrabi. The green at the end of the flat you see? That's the kohlrabi.

  
  There's the kohlrabi up close.

  
  Morning glories. Why? Because I heart them. I know, I know...as a farmer I should despise them entirely, but I've a soft spot for sensitive plants. And, yeah, I tend to love "weeds". Morning glories ARE poisonous, this is true, so they don't have practical applications like most other weeds I like (clover, ground ivy, dandelions for example)...but my home must have these growing by the mail box, elsewise, I can't really consider it as my home.

  
  My morning glories are now actually out of the starter flat and into larger pots in another flat. They tend to grow a few inches every day or so. What did I expect from weeds? xD

  
  My dracaena has doubled in size since you last saw it.

  
  The first week, no peppers sprouted. There are actually a handful of tomatos in the flat to the left of this picture, but they didn't sprout either.

  
  My chives have been growing rather enthusiastically. Unfortunately, my cat (Grims) likes to mangle the poor thing. We have more chive seeds, which I'm probably gonna sew outside as soon as it's warm enough.

  
  Table number two. As you can tell, all these pictures were taken in the morning.

  
  The non-peppers flat that refused to sprout much the first week. This one's mostly onions.

  

  
  There are more seeds in that box.

  
  Tomatos! They hadn't ALL sprouted by the first week, but they're all well up by now.
  Here's a list of all our tomatos so far:
  Beefstake, about twelve or so of them.
  Cherry tomatos, a whole flat, (over seventy two of them)
  Green Zebra (six, so far, of them)
  Speckled striped roma tomatos, one row (six)
  Nyagous, one row
  Purple Cherokee, one row
  Red German Strawberry, one row
  Floridade, about twelve of them
  Red brandywine, one row
  
  Hopefully, bloody butcher tomato seeds will be arriving soon as well so that we can plant them.

  Stay tuned! More pictures on the way!

  Things are progressing far better than I hoped, though we are having a hard time finding money for the last of the seeds. Things are rather tight right now.

  Before you say, "HOLY CRAP, girl, that's alot and most of your things have to be planted by spring and not earlier, that's not even half of your stuff!"...I'll have you know that we're selling surplus plants. There's a church that's sponsoring local growers (due to popular demand by victory gardeners) and their plants and produce that lets you set up and sell things for free in their parking lot on the weekends as soon as it's warm.
   This year's adventure's just getting started and I assure you, we're thinking on our feet with all this.

   

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