lastewie's Journal

Um, here are the pictures:

Um, I’m not in love with this site. Maybe it’s because it’s overwhelming. I just like to share pictures and stuff. So that’s what I’ll do.

I started my tomatoes too early. They’re going to be busting out of their containers by the time I can plant them. Well, I actually mean that they’ll be sadly large, because I do plan to re-pot them and hike the grow lights up to accommodate their new height. I’ll be planting them deeply, thank you very much. The leaves look a little sad now, though. They almost seem variegated with the yellow that is mottling them. It’s troubling me a bit.

The peppers are almost all germinated, and it will be fun to see which varieties they end up being.

Yesterday I began cilantro, basil, and eggplant and then also more ground cherries inside, since the last ones didn’t germinate at all.

Finally, direct sowing: I have peas up, radishes up, romaine up and possibly rutabagas. Yet to germinate are: carrots, other radishes, fava beans, beets, grand rapids lettuce and….I can’t remember. That’s what surprises are for!

Can’t wait….

My ground cherries are NOT GERMINATING!!!

Planted today: Carrots, turnips, chard, radishes, beets. Makes me hungry.

So I sent an email out to my neighborhood listserv last week, asking for fireplace ashes, but also throwing in a tidbit about how I could take any bagged leaves people have off of their hands for them. I just picked up four 30-gallon bags, and there are 10 more for me waiting at another person’s house. Oy.

I love and hate the grow light setup I whomped up last weekend to start my seedlings. It’s in my bedroom, and that crazy full spectrum light is annoying as all get out.

On the plus side, I’ve got it timed to start lighting a few minutes before my alarm goes off in the a.m.

And after just 4 days I’ve got sprouts—brandywine and sungold at least!

I just signed up both to this site and to ravelry. I’m fucked. There’s so much to put in!