Many people try to start some seeds and grow them on in a window sill. Unless you happen to have a really deep window sill in a south facing window, growing seedlings in this manner rarely proves satisfactory. The seedlings don't get enough light and grow pale and leggy. You can grow far more seedlings [...]
Seeds and Seed Starting
Betrayal!!
February 18, 2005 – Posted in: Acquisitions, Seeds and Seed StartingOnly I'm still trying to figure out whether I feel like I've betrayed Johnny's or that Johnny's has betrayed me. One way or the other, one of us has been betrayed. I'm ordering most of my seeds from a different company this year!!! Aren't you shocked? I'm shocked. I always order from Johnny's. Teman has [...]
The Agony and the Ecstasy
February 17, 2005 – Posted in: Seeds and Seed StartingOkay, so I peeked. I opened up a catalog. Then another, and another, and another. It became obvious that I was spending too much time looking at catalogs, so I began hiding them in the bathroom and feigning stomach viruses. I began to feel dirty and shameful, but I couldn't stop. Then, the list making [...]
I haven’t looked in a single seed catalogue yet!
January 27, 2005 – Posted in: Seeds and Seed StartingBut I did organize them today, as part of a labeling project that started when my dear sister Kathleen sent me a long desired label maker for my 40th birthday. My sick 4 year old son got even bigger thrills making labels, and so the cupboards were thrown open and the labelling began. I would [...]
Busy Bee
April 3, 2004 – Posted in: Seeds and Seed StartingHas anyone besides me noticed how many different kinds of seeds The Bookish Gardener is sowing? She lists them all in the sidebar. That woman is ambitious! Where ya gonna plant them all, Chan?
I can’t get started – seed starting that is
March 27, 2004 – Posted in: Seeds and Seed StartingI can buy the seeds, but I can't seem to start the seeds. They are all organized by starting date, I have a chart in the garden where they will go, but for some reason, I am so not motivated to get the seeds in dirt. I think because once you start the process, you [...]
More seeds
March 23, 2004 – Posted in: Seeds and Seed StartingI mentioned ordering more tomato seeds. I am trying Park's Whopper. I received seeds from Park in about 5 days. It has been over a week now, and I haven't received what I ordered from Burpee. From the looks of things, I won't get those Walls o' Water out anytime soon. We've 8-10" more of [...]
Seed planting
March 19, 2004 – Posted in: Seeds and Seed StartingI wanted to get my tomatoes started so I could put them out in Walls o'Water a month early. Had some Early Girl seed left but not the others I thought I had. So I quickly place a couple of seed order. My favorite small tomato is Gardener's Delight, which Park used to carry. Now [...]
Faith in a Seed
February 24, 2004 – Posted in: Seeds and Seed StartingAny gardener who hasn't read Thoreau's book Faith in a Seed should hie her/himself to the library. It is one of those read a bit, think a bit, read some more books, and now is the time to read it. I'm in the thick of seed sowing now, trying to keep up with my schedule [...]
Sam’s Picks
January 16, 2004 – Posted in: Seeds and Seed StartingSam of Talking Dirty has posted her tomato order, and guess what, Ro--she's getting the Costoluto Genovese tomato. A woman of impeccable taste, no?
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