In yesterday’s post I showed some of the crowded seedlings that I have growing in my seed starting area under lights. [In 2009. In 2011.] Below I have transplanted a group of purple cabbage and am in the process of splitting up bell pepper siblings:
Posts Tagged ‘seedlings’
25 Mar
Hardening off the broccoli
Blurry camera phone picture: Here are 63 broccoli young’ins, inside the plastic greenhouse shelf thing that R. gave me for Christmas in late 2008. Unfortunately the cloth used in the zipper has badly deteriorated after only six months outside last summer, so this will probably be the last year I can use this as a [...]
21 Mar
Thompson Broccoli seedlings
Here are half of my broccoli seedlings. I am growing Thompson seeds this year. I must admit that I feel a bit nervous planting all one variety, but that’s what I did. We’ll see if I will learn this lesson the hard way. Monoculture? I’m so bad. The 72 plants I started will be planted [...]
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 [...]
30 Dec
Zone 5 Greenhouse New Year update
The radish seeds I sowed in the greenhouse in a pot on December 5th started to show their heads last week. Yesterday many had come up! There were several consecutive nights of 0 degree weather outside (in degrees fahrenheit, 32 below freezing), and the greenhouse got as cold as 19 by morning once, but the radishes [...]
11 Apr
Starting from seed
I planted seeds on March 5 through the 10th and a few more sporadically after that. On March 17th, this is what my seedling table looked like under the hanging lights. The thing you want to do is keep the lights hung only one or two inches above the plants, even if that means moving [...]
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