Specialty Gardening: Join Us! Seed Swap Seed Starting & Conversation #6, 1 by dryad57

dryad57 wrote:
No hot water!? Ack! I'd be yelling something fierce to have them out to fix that puppy.

I got new babies too! Ain't this exciting? I've got to move the laptop to where the seedlings are so I can update the Journal. I learned from a certain Illustrious One that if you put handy things on the sticks (like the RID# or your personal listing #) then all you need to do is use that to refer to the list for updates.

The ones I set outside to enjoy the sun yesterday are doing just fine this morning. And the ones that wimped out after all of 10 minutes revived just fine (poppies, go figure). I'm so excited - I finally got my act together and got more potting/seed soil, so I can actually do all the repotting that needs to be done. I've not had enough to do everything so my decision was to do nothing until I could do it all right (BIG procrastination tip!), so today is seedling replanting day. And, this one was just for fun, some of the things I'm transplanting are rutabagas :) I plan to use the more mature rutabagas (and some other similar veggies) to mark the edges of edible crop areas in the cottage gardens I'm doing - the mature marker plants will be allowed to bolt, and as the veggies are used up we'll just replace them with annuals.

Poor Illoquin. She stopped by yesterday to give me some little nemesia babies for transplanting and took a look at my "start of a lasagna bed". Start, to me, means a small patch. Small patch, to me, means - oh, 5x10'. I clearly let down my Illustrious Leader :( I think small patch to her may mean something like 1/2 an acre.... She did tell me where to score some great horse manure though...I tell ya, she's a never-ending source of information:) (She was also gracious enough to not point out to me that some of my bulbs were covered and look a bit puny :> )

OK, I'm off to find the aquilegia to spread outside, and then off to transplant some nemesia and a few other things, start up a new tray of seeds, and then do my Mom's taxes. (Seeds are a great incentive...)

Here's a pic of those poppies that started in APS trays on Jan. 12, and spent all of 10 minutes outside yesterday.