Sure, when it’s 100 degrees out in our kitchen that doesn’t have a window unit in it! 
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8 days. Still in the low 40s at night for another week or so, so I still have them on the heat mat. Light is on probably 14 hours a day, basically when I’m not at work. Fingers crossed that I get pretty flowers eventually.
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here’s hoping! I should start some more seeds.
When are lettuces OK to plant out? Like, how should they look?
The challenge with planting garlic in a garden with a high number of other onion family plants is that it can be hard to figure out what is a volunteer and what is garlic
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I was gifted a spider plant. I never grow things I can’t eat - what the hell do I do with this?
I have a dim childhood memory of my mother having one in a hanging basket?
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Baskets are cool, but a regular pot would also work if you’ve got a cat-proof sunny ledge somewhere, or nested in a bookshelf if they haven’t figured out how to climb those/you can block access! The trailing little babies it grows are fun if you can give them space to wave about lol
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I have moved several ferns which were overcrowding where the lungwort are, and hopefully they will be happy in their new locations. In the darwinian understory that is our back yard, the ferns are currently ascendent, so I feel slightly better about potentially losing 3 (eta: 6) than I would have been a few years ago.
I also tried to move out some of scilla so that the lone bloodroot had a better chance, but I fear I damaged the bloodroot I was trying to save. This makes me sad, because bloodroot is a local plant, but seems susceptible to being outcompeted by all the alliums around. I have pulled out more plausible blooming onions to give everyone else a chance.
And moved another fern out of the flagstones, plus a wholesale dump of geraniums and violets from a flagstone patch to a planter which seems bare. Bonemeal over everything moved.
And this is how my darwinian backyard is actually heavily influenced by my judgements of what is “natural”
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This looks like damping off, maybe combined with not strong enough light. Is it very wet? And is there any air flow?
(Damping off is caused by soil borne fungus exacerbated by too much moisture and no air flow. I bottom water and use a small fan periodically to avoid this. (I also personally think those little pucks don’t work that well and are more trouble than they’re worth? But that’s my opinion, some people love them ))
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There is no air flow in my garage and I don’t have a fan. I don’t leave the door open when I’m at work. I water from the bottom and had too much in there last night but dumped it out when I noticed, it was probably only a couple of hours. It’s going to be in the 60s now, should I put them out in the sun in the afternoons? Will critters or birds bother them? I bought pucks because I hoped it would be easy! Why would only some have a problem if they are all treated the same way?
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I think maybe some seedlings are just better able to cope with the fungus.
I get dampening off too, even though I raise seedlings outdoors and bottom water, etc. The seed raising mix I bought is supposed to be sterilized and premium with nutrients but I found my tomatoes more resilient this year with dilute liquid feeds early on 
. I have some silverbeet at the moment which looks like it might survive (I lost a bunch though).
This one is the worst that has survived. It’s actually grown heaps since that damage happened. I’m curious to see what happens next.
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My cosmos were growing beautifully and I was getting excited about flowers later and then a bunch of snails came and ate them 
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In unusual garden harvests, last year mr krmit inoculated the front yard with stropharia mushroom spawn (wine caps) and we have had a very fruitful month or so of mushroom harvests! I was just out in the rain and see a lot more baby shrooms popping up.
They’re a milder mushroom, not super meaty tasting, but are tasty on pizza, in pasta, and pickled. Also dried a batch as an experiment but we haven’t sampled them yet.
$25 investment for the initial spawn, and time to let the wood chips inoculate. Hopefully we’ll have free mushrooms every spring/fall for a few years!
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My babies 
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I didn’t end up separating them yet because we went to the beach on holidays instead.
I think I’ll hold off planting them out until after the rain we are expecting next week. Hopefully they don’t mind being cramped up for another week 
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What we talking here?
Tomatoes!
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Ha. Yeah but what type???
That photo reminds me of my compost + mystery seeds from bottom of seed container part of the raised bed.
Also, here are my two most advanced tomatoes. Some kind of cherry tomato.
I’ll race you and all the pests to first tomatoes.
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Ahah yours are ahead of mine!
From memory… We have Tropic which is my faithful. Berkeley Green Tie dye. Some kind of dwarf brandy wine type (I forget the name). Brad’s Atomic Grape. Dark Galaxy. Black from Tula…
I think there was a yellow one too. Maybe a dwarf yellow?
Edit: this is the plan… and I never did start the cherry tomatoes 
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I separate them today. 34 in total. Also I found enough pots under the house to pot them all up .
I’ll plant out next weekend hopefully, hold onto a few for possum insurance and give away the rest.
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Wanted to give you all an update on sod removal, thanks for your advice a few weeks ago.
We rented a sod cutter from Home Depot, and took out sod from two spots: one about 250 square feet and one that was about 100 feet. My wife and I did most of it, and had some help from two friends who came by and my parents. We were working on it all day, but took plenty of breaks.
There is no way we could have done it by hand, so my hat is off to you all who have done it that way!
Here are the final pics. We covered them up with solarization plastic to hopefully keep weeds out before we do the next steps.
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