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Saturday, March 04, 2017 10:07:16 PM
March 4-This morning on the apartment patio I discovered a bird working on a next in a dead fir tree next to the wall. It was brown. A wren? But wrens like to next under eaves. This one was out in the open. The female flew over and chirped. Is this the mate? Does she like the nest? She's the one who makes the decision. I will find out more Sunday morning.
It wasn't as cold as forecast. Maybe just under 32. Sunday, a little above 32.
The Alma Paprika pepper seeds went into cups of soil. Each container has room for four cups. I sowed 20 seeds and placed the containers on the windowsill. Then I poured more sodium nitrate into the shallow bowl and dumped in the Sheepnose Pimento pepper seeds. They will soak for 24 hours, then planted Sunday morning.
The weather was too cold to work in the beds so I worked on my watermelon hill and the row of boxes I'm building next to the slope. The hole for #2 was still full of water. Clay will drain, but hard clay won't. I pulled more soil from the soil and dumped it into the hole. This soil is black. And full of worms. It filled it and added a stake to mark it.
After Rico had moved all that soil with his machine and compacted it, setting up the raised bed he destroyed has been a daunting task. I finally cleared enough to set down a 6x10x6ft timber where it was previously. If I can do one, I can do another 11.
The Cherokee Purple tomato seedlings were moved from the office back to the greenhouse. Four of them have already produced the first true leaf.
Back home, I looked at that grow dome I ordered from Henry Fields and the plugs containing Rosa Bianca eggplant seeds which haven't germinated and decided this will never do. I pitched them into the dumpster. Now I have a plastic tray with a clear plastic cover, plus some solid fertilizer containing trace elements that came with the order.
This is a situation in which a gardener takes the bait and buys something supposedly new and improved. The simple ways are sometimes best. Backyard gardeners have been filling little styrofoam and plastic cups with potting soil, inserting a seed, adding water and placing them on sunny windowsills for years.
Good news. Ali the property owner and fresh vegetable lover has OK'd my request for the purchase of $100 worth of organic fertilizer. I watered the bed and went home.
It wasn't as cold as forecast. Maybe just under 32. Sunday, a little above 32.
The Alma Paprika pepper seeds went into cups of soil. Each container has room for four cups. I sowed 20 seeds and placed the containers on the windowsill. Then I poured more sodium nitrate into the shallow bowl and dumped in the Sheepnose Pimento pepper seeds. They will soak for 24 hours, then planted Sunday morning.
The weather was too cold to work in the beds so I worked on my watermelon hill and the row of boxes I'm building next to the slope. The hole for #2 was still full of water. Clay will drain, but hard clay won't. I pulled more soil from the soil and dumped it into the hole. This soil is black. And full of worms. It filled it and added a stake to mark it.
After Rico had moved all that soil with his machine and compacted it, setting up the raised bed he destroyed has been a daunting task. I finally cleared enough to set down a 6x10x6ft timber where it was previously. If I can do one, I can do another 11.
The Cherokee Purple tomato seedlings were moved from the office back to the greenhouse. Four of them have already produced the first true leaf.
Back home, I looked at that grow dome I ordered from Henry Fields and the plugs containing Rosa Bianca eggplant seeds which haven't germinated and decided this will never do. I pitched them into the dumpster. Now I have a plastic tray with a clear plastic cover, plus some solid fertilizer containing trace elements that came with the order.
This is a situation in which a gardener takes the bait and buys something supposedly new and improved. The simple ways are sometimes best. Backyard gardeners have been filling little styrofoam and plastic cups with potting soil, inserting a seed, adding water and placing them on sunny windowsills for years.
Good news. Ali the property owner and fresh vegetable lover has OK'd my request for the purchase of $100 worth of organic fertilizer. I watered the bed and went home.
Old Cadillacs never die. The finance company take 'em and faaaaade 'em away.
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