April 6th
This is an update on my earlier post on seeding. Things are going quite well! All the credit to God. I pray over them every day. This seems like a very small thing to pray about but God knows that these little guys are my livelihood and if he sees the sparrow I have to think he cares about my plants. Maybe he’ll keep the sparrows out! And the chickens, rabbits, deer, beetles and other garden pests. I will post later about some home remedies to keep these guys out of your garden.
I have been transplanting a great deal. One flat of peat moss pellets seeded with Black Seeded Simpson lettuces, which, by the way I have found to be a very hardy growing lettuce, took me a very long time to do. I had already multiplied my flat by three and really needed to get on the livestock chores before dark so I needed to figure something out. And quick! An idea I had was to fill the bottom of a flat, one with holes for drainage, with my soil and plant my little seedlings directly in the bottom as if it were a small garden bed. This saved me from having to use up more pots and saved me a good bit of time. It has worked quite nicely. Though I will need to transplant them again before they form a large root ball.
A note for buying plants would be to check the root ball of one plant before making a large purchase by pulling it out of it’s pot and examining the roots. Make sure that they aren’t thick, white, stuck together, and sealed all around the soil like walls on each side. When you plant the young fellow gently pull apart the bottom of the roots.
I look so forward to having a greenhouse, not to complain. Right now I am using our command station, our converted side porch which has concrete slabs at different levels, to do all my seeding which requires me to move all the flats out into the sun each morning and back again at night. This is really alright though. It strengthens my arms lugging the tables and such.
I’ll tell you more about my seeding adventures as I go.
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