As I said earlier, I did get to plant out many of my tomato plants. We were working in a sprinkling rain most of the time, but we did get 12 put into this bed and another 7 put in other places. These 12 are paste tomatoes (Amish Paste [Indeterminate, open pollinated] and Heinz 2653 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘seedling’
27 Mar
Time to thin the ‘maters.
I did not know if I should expect a good rate of germination from the tomato seeds I saved last year, so planted 3 or 4 seeds in each of these 72 compartments. Most grew. Now it’s time to thin the ‘maters. I just clipped them off with scissors.
24 Mar
Oh Sweet Basil!
Basil is too important to put just in one place. This will be growing in my wife’s herb bed, of course, but we’ll also have some basil in each of the 3 kid garden beds too.
28 Mar
Potting up Tomatoes (first seedling transplant)
Tomatoes have big long roots and grow very quickly from seed indoors. A few weeks after planting tomato seeds, while it’s still way too cold outside for tomato plants, they need more room. I like to pot mine up into half-gallon milk cartons because they are so deep. Here are some photos and notes of [...]
12 Apr
Seed table 2008 after 5 weeks
Here I am tonight at my seed table. I’m sitting down about a foot under the ceiling of our crawl space. The tomatoes below were planted March 5th. I’ve been able to keep most of them down to between 8 and 9 inches high by keeping the lights close to them. I have three double-40-watt-bulb [...]
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