Woah. I was complaining about the equal but opposite issue yesterday. 37°C (98.5°F) and a little muggy.
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Got my growlights hung and plugged in to verify function. Light on right is T5HO and left is a T8 with retrofit LED grow light tubes made by GE. Not used the LED before but had the fixture already so figured it was a cheap experiment:) Don’t need them for a few more days until something actually germinates.
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I started some beans in the window and three are doing well and one is meh. A local plant store had a delivery grab bag deal for veggies or herbs, and since I have a bunch of veggie seeds I went with herbs. I didn’t realize it was so popular a service: I received and posted my haul on FB and all my friends were jealous as the deal had quickly sold out. The plants look REALLY nice. Received two varieties of rosemary, chives, grey sage, nasturtium, mint. I’m pretty excited! Now need to decide what to plant where, both for these and the rest of the seeds. I’m probably going to start my peppers this weekend too.
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As of Sunday I now have all of my plants at our new place.
Happy.
Now to cull out all the stuff we don’t “need” so we can have room to walk around.
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No such thing!
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Hooray! Well done.
I’m partway through pulling up bricks for the new patch. I took mum’s advice to leave the bricks adjacent to the house because she’s concerned the slab won’t like extra moisture. Once I could start using the shovel as a lever, it went a lot faster. Should be done by tonight, and then spend the week fussing over how to make the bricks stand upright as a border.
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I have purple opal basil sprouting along with my other basil. I’m so excited just because I think it’s gonna be pretty!
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It’s got a lot going on.
Plus the stuff outside on the edge of the CFA’s property.
And then there’s a half dozen bramble berries down the side.
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Had some cuttings of African Blue Perpetual Basil and normal Perpetual Basil growing in my propagation tubes on the window sill. I planted them out into dirt today as they’d got some great root growth going on.
Now doing some Perennial Red Basil.
The Red Gauntlet strawberries in the hanging pots have been popped along the fence on the western side of the property. They’re likely to get sun for a period around midday (11:25am when I took this pic)
Hey @HaH when do you harvest your Jerusalem artichokes?
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I’ve only grown them once… I think when the flower dies and the plant starts to die back? One pot (bag, actually) I harvested too early; the second the plant was looking pretty much dead and it had a better yield.
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Thanks, mine are still flowering, so they’re a ways off based on that.
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I believe you’d get some tubers now if you were desperate and wanted whatever food you could get, but not nearly as many as later on.
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Anyone have a good system for seed organization? Currently I just have stuff propped up in an empty box. Would like some way of sorting by planting month & type (herb, veg, flower, etc).
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Binder clips or rubber bands grouping packets together by desired category (sometimes a single species like tomatoes, sometimes something more general like pollinator plants) is what I have done sometimes. My binder clips all got moved somewhere, need to find them.
Edit: found them!
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I will have to try this. I’m just tired of going through all my seeds every time to find the ones I can actually plant in April.
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Some people get really organized, like trading card sheets in a binder organized, but I don’t grow enough different things or store seeds for long enough to be quite that level.
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Erica at NWEdible has an article about it I think. It’s been ages but I think she did plastic sandwich bags inside a Tupperware in the fridge.
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I saw Rebecca Rhodes had that the other day.
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And Body Corporate has been in contact via the Real Estate agent saying all my pot plants have to go.
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