It is that time of the year when I need to rely on fluorescent lights to help in sprouting many of my seeds that I plant. With two 48 inch lights I can add many more seeds that I need to plant for a good head start to 2018. For now I am using just one light and have only planted flower seeds into small to medium sized plastic containers. (more…)
Like every season I always do a partial tilling for my cold weather plants like spinach and lettuce. I will do a full tilling later on in the season around May or late April depending on the weather.
Today was windy but still warm enough to get some work done in the garden. I am hoping to plant all or the majority of my spinach tomorrow if I have enough time. I have about 22 plants and that should take only a couple of hours to complete. (more…)
I recently had planted nine of the strongest spinach plants into the garden last week and I had 11 that I wanted to place by the end of this week at the latest. Yesterday I completed putting the rest into the garden and only took about a couple of hours.
I probably could have waited a little bit longer for the plants to grow more roots in order to make it easier to take them out of the containers. Most of them seemed to come out pretty easily. (more…)
Just wanted to keep you up to date on my garden especially on the plant progress that many have gone through. They have been doing quite good over the past couple of weeks now that the sun is out more and the weather is definitely getting warmer.
It is still not time to plant them in the ground, but placing them outside is what I have been doing the past couple of weeks. When the time comes they will be ready to make the transition into the ground with ease. (more…)
I had planted cucumbers about a couple of weeks ago into small black pots that would be perfect for them. Unfortunately I only was able to plant three pots of them. Today I decided to use the spare fluorescent light used for the spinach and plant some more cucumbers.
The spinach plants have been hardening outside for the past few weeks and they will not need any more fluorescent light and can now rely on the sun. This extra one was used to plant cucumbers and more flowers. (more…)
