Garden update
Mar. 31st, 2010 10:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fireunMoved the bulk of the seedlings to the basement yesterday. We rigged a grow station down there that looks fairly fantastic (pics coming soon) and hopefully will turn out fantastic little plants.
We have four plant lights, two per hanging fixture above a home made plant stand (a long board supported by stacks of cinder blocks). The beauty of the cinder block set up is that we can adjust the height as needed simply by removing a block on each end. Lights are on a timer, so we will get day and night. We are pretty excited to see how this turns out. It is warm (for a NY basement in March) down there, so we shouldn't have to worry about temperature.
On the kitchen table, the intricate seed starter remains with its collection of heirloom tomatoes and peppers. The peppers are, as always, slow to germinate, so I want to keep them where I can monitor them more closely until the plants are established.
Purchased manure yesterday to spread on the garden area, so we are getting on to prepping what will be the garden. Plan is to lay the manure, and then till, so everything is all nice and mixed in. We want to let the grass compost a bit before we start actually planting, so tilling will hopefully occur in the near future.
Planting the rest of the herb and tomatillo seeds today, so the kitchen table will again contain encampments of seeds as opposed to place settings.
We have four plant lights, two per hanging fixture above a home made plant stand (a long board supported by stacks of cinder blocks). The beauty of the cinder block set up is that we can adjust the height as needed simply by removing a block on each end. Lights are on a timer, so we will get day and night. We are pretty excited to see how this turns out. It is warm (for a NY basement in March) down there, so we shouldn't have to worry about temperature.
On the kitchen table, the intricate seed starter remains with its collection of heirloom tomatoes and peppers. The peppers are, as always, slow to germinate, so I want to keep them where I can monitor them more closely until the plants are established.
Purchased manure yesterday to spread on the garden area, so we are getting on to prepping what will be the garden. Plan is to lay the manure, and then till, so everything is all nice and mixed in. We want to let the grass compost a bit before we start actually planting, so tilling will hopefully occur in the near future.
Planting the rest of the herb and tomatillo seeds today, so the kitchen table will again contain encampments of seeds as opposed to place settings.
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Date: 2010-03-31 02:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-03-31 04:04 pm (UTC)I tried to get mostly heirloom for the garden. Lots of heirloom tomatoes, peppers, and squash varieties. Grabbed as many heirloom herbs as possible, but those were harder to get a hold of.
I have only done yellow squash, zucchini, cucumbers, and peppers in the past. I rent my home, so I dont really have a yard to garden. Having my friends yarn to play with this year has been exciting!