Thursday, 26 March 2009
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Paper pots; lifesavers
So, at the start of this week we started transplanting the tomatoes because they'd begun to become too big for the little greenhouse boxes.
All cherry tomatoes, Monday.
We have a 106 cherry tomato pots all in all. I know, ALOT, right? Well, you know how you put a few seeds in each spot when you plant, in case some of 'em don't work? They ALL sprouted...and we did an entire flat of them. So you can imagine.
How the tables looked on Monday.
My Morning glories, Monday.
My dracaena was repotted.Some random cat pictures;
Grims sleeping on the sunny floor.
We discovered that Norman likes paper bags.Here's pictures from Tuesday;
We added a third table!
More of these are not cherry tomatoes, but other varieties. Here's a list of how much we have of each;
Nyagous -- 11 pots
Speckled striped Roma tomatoes -- 7 pots
Red German Strawberry tomatoes -- 5 pots
Beefsteak -- 33
Red zebra -- 8
Green zebra -- 8
Purple Cherokee -- 13
Red brandywine -- 9
Tuesday, my morning glories began trying to vine.
I don't have pictures for Wednesday, but I can tell you that our tables no longer have non-plant items on them xD and are quite full. I can also tell you that we started transplanting things -other- than tomatoes.
Here's a list of what we have so far;
Standard Black Eggplant -- 36
Jalepeno Peppers -- 36
Plus, a few Garden Huckleberries (aka, the poor man's blueberry). ALL this bounty for a few dollar packets of seeds! A little too good luck, but hey, we can sell all that we don't need, right? (And we only need about four of each plant, haha).I may have to separate the morning glories by the end of the week, though, lest they get tangled up in eachother. Not sure where I should put them all...maybe I should sacrifice some pencils to give them something to vine on? Not sure. We'll see, I suppose.
Really though, if it weren't for the invention of paper pots we wouldn't be able to handle all this. Every night we transplant more and more stuff, and we're about out of normal pots. Only one month until spring planting, though. And until flea markets start picking up in full swing. So if we can just look after everything until then...and give away/sell as many plants as possible, we'll be good.
In other progress, I'm going to have to buy most of the rest of our seeds on ebay it looks like. A second hollyhock came up, finally. The red bell peppers'll be ready for transplanting in a few days, the serano's will be ready sooner. We've kohlrabi and brocoli to transplant. More garden huckleberries. We planted a flat of flowers, too...and by the end of the week, we'll have three empty greenhouse boxes and probably only plant one more of them.
All the rest of the work is in May after we're done with all this!
Digging, lugging the pots out, general farm construction and care. The big ticket items...namely the trees and potatoes, Mom'll be after...and it's gonna take some doing, since they cost more than just a dollar or so a packet of seeds! Even the flea marketeering'll take some doing. I'm hoping that some posters, net ads, and a sign at the end of our drive if I can get my hands on some decent wood and nails, will do the trick.
It's exhausting, the sheer volume of our luck. I'm in charge of looking after the plants, keeping 'em watered, making the paper pots, and labling them...and normally, I gotta do it as quickly and thoroughly as possible. I even made the list. Mom and I're planning out where everything's gonna be planted, we've been sowing the seeds together, and mostly, discussing what we need to grow together. But so far, most of the work's me. From poking holes in the plastic containers, to cutting up old water bottles to make pots, my hands are a little nicked up, so I've been wondering why I enjoy all this and if I'm gonna be sick of transplanting soon, but yeah. We're into this full swing now!
I'll post more recent pictures soon!
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