Hold on to this first image for a bit…I’ll address it at the end of the post. Keep scrolling… Just got back from an amazing time at the Northwest Flower and Garden Show at the Seattle Convention Center. It was my first time ever at this storied show, and with only a day to spend, […]
Monthly Archives: February 2011
Pre-sprout Pea Shout Out
Why pre-sprout seeds? Have a look at the following webpage: http://tomclothier.hort.net/page11.html Besides the cool graph at the top, there’s an even better chart further down that shows some interesting facts. Check out peas. Peas will sprout at 41 deg. F. They’ll sprout just fine (86%), BUT they take about 36 days to do that. Hmmmm, […]
How big is too big?
Well, today’s topic is the size of your lettuce transplants. Last week I put in some smaller starts that I had grown indoors for about a month. Today the big boys went in. These were lettuces I started in a plastic bin in December. I had already taken two cuts of these guys for delectable […]
Lettuce begin the season
Today planted four varieties of lettuce in covered beds on the rooftop, all of them started under lights in my basement January 3. After years of sowing all lettuce in cell trays, either 96 or 128 cells, I have now gone to flats with four rows of seeds (usually four different varieties), and then as […]