It got down to high 20s last week, but this week it’s been 50-70. Welcome to Colorado, what’s the weather going to be like? Depends, which half hour are you referring to and in what 2-mile square?
Oh too much of a coincidence, this just popped up on my feed regarding hardening off.
Is the soil moist still? It has been really dry at my house, and for shallow seeds directly sown, I don’t think they would have germinated yet if no supplemental water was given.
(The only things I’ve direct sown are peas, and that was weeks ago already (probably over a month), and they are around 6" tall now.)
I’ve been trying to keep them moist until germination.
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They got sunburned through windows? That seems unlikely to me. But perhaps I’m misunderstanding.
Order of light intensity more or less: weak growlight<sunlight filtered through a vertical window<good growlight<outdoors in shade<sunlight filtered through greenhouse glass or plastic overhead<outdoors in partial sun<outdoors in full sun
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Unless you’re in my house, where I have direct sunlight through kitchen window and I’m pretty sure I can almost fry an egg on the bench some days.
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They were inside in the window, but it’s been rainy and the window only gets ~5 hours of sunlight, so when it was warm and sunny for a day I put them outside all day in direct sunlight.
Now they’re moved back inside and I’m wondering if I should protect them even from sun filtered through glass, or if they need some sunlight to keep growing.
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I would let them recover inside, then outside in shade for a few days, and only then transition to part or full sun at your discretion. There is a huge difference in light intensity, particularly at the blue and UV spectrums between window sunshine (especially modern low e windows) and outdoor sunshine
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And if you have extra seeds you could always start some replacements just to be safe.
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It’s more emotional than practical. I have more greens and lettuce seeds, and I can always buy tomatoes and peppers as seedlings if they don’t recover. I just feel so bad for my little plant babies!
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Becoming a “green thumb” isn’t magic or talent, it requires the sacrifice of many many dead plants. I have killed so, so many plants and still do.
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And learning livestock can be even harder that way.
What a difference a day can make.
Lots of roots where yesterday they’d just started and now roots appearing on other cuttings.
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Krmit hound is one with the spuds!
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Got the last sidewalk bed all prepped and put in the blocks I had. Will have to buy more to finish. Chickens appreciated the greens and worms to peck through from the sod I stripped up.
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Yesterday arvo I took the castings from the bottom tray on all three worm farms. They went into three seperate big plastic bucket/tubs. I added a 25kg bag of cow manure and 1kg of pelleted chicken manure to each tub. Mixed it all up, loaded it into the boot and popped around to where the plants are.
I top dressed all the fruit trees and blueberry bushes in big pots and then mulched with pea straw for the fruit trees and pine needles for the blueberries. I also ran 70m of new hose from the nearest tap to the plants, fwiw 50m would have been enough, but I’d initially planned on using a tap further away.
Helped transfer dead branches to the burn pile and stood around catching up with my aunt and getting covered in ash.
Went home and dead headed and cleared out all the dead leaves from the Gerbera pots hanging on the fence. Pulled the dead leaves off the gladioli and added to the worm farms. This means I’ve got a few more pots to de-bulb and reuse the dirt and pots for garlic next week.
Did the gardening around at the property today. Either I’m getting old and slow, or something has changed that I can’t put my finger on, but it’s taking me 2.5hrs to do a job that used to take sub 2hrs. Started digging the next hole for the compost bin and realised I didn’t have my pole level with me. So abandoned that til next fortnight. Filled the hole with cut branches to save me re-digging it next time and to also prevent any mishaps if someone got too close.
Today’s Perennial Red Basil rooting picture.
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I’m going to cook with some garden things today for the first time! My kitchen scrap green onions, and some loose oregano I found while weeding. Mmm pizza weed.
The green onions are growing at wildly variable rates. The ones closest to the window are doing the best, even within the same container, so I’m gonna stick em outside during the day.
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Cross posted from my journal
Yesterday I transplanted peas and direct sowed more to fill up the trellis. Don’t think I’ll start them early indoors again but we’ll see.
Also laid out all the blocks to finish the last of the veggie bed walls. There’s one last bed I want to change from wood to cement blocks but it’s only got flowers in it so it’s lower priority, will probably wait until summer break to tackle it.
Then I began my rearranging of the rabbitry. Dismantled this cage bank. It feels so nice and open walking in the animal yard now! Most importantly, I can get a wheelbarrow in and out instead of having to use buckets to bring manure and compost out. Once I’ve got everything cleaned out I’ll ask my brother if his company can drop a load of arborist wood chips down and make the whole animal yard nice and mulched, as well as some needed mulch elsewhere like in the space between the cement block beds and the street curb.
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Not a lot showing up on the direct seeded front. Legitimately considering either laying next to plant beds and gently encouraging them to sprout with sweet whispers and song or learning their full scientific name and yelling them out like a mother calling her kids home.
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