January. Synonymous with cold, snow, frigid temperatures, and dark days. And yet there are the little things that brighten our days and get us through this long month as we wait for seed-starting season. Take this tomato plant, for example. A gift from the Minnesota gardeners, this is a dwarf tomato which seems very happy [...]
Filed under: Seed Starting, Tomatoes, Wisconsin Gardening on January 4th, 2012 | Comments Off
Exactly two weeks after I started the first round of pepper seeds, I decided it was time to get the tomatoes in. In addition, I thought I’d try Minnesota’s trick of soaking pepper seeds and then planting them. When I planted dozens of seeds, and only had four or five up, I was concerned that [...]
Filed under: Seed Starting, Wisconsin Gardening on March 17th, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Well, there’s no artichokes for me this year. I’m not sure what I did wrong in starting the seeds, I’ll need to do more research on them. I dug them out yesterday, and the seeds look the same as when they went in- nothing going on. They may need warmer temperatures to germinate, or they [...]
Filed under: Seed Starting, Wisconsin Gardening on March 1st, 2011 | 9 Comments »
Water. That little seed tray needs frequent watering. I’ve been watering my lettuce patch, but sparingly. Yesterday when I went to check on my seedlings, they looked terrible. Like, I thought I was going to have to start over terrible. I decided to give them a good soaking- and it was definitely a good soaking, [...]
Filed under: Growing Under Lights, Lettuce, Seed Starting on February 10th, 2011 | 2 Comments »
This week I started some seeds. *Insert happy dance* The first step to seed starting for me this year was a lighting set up. A serious lack of sunlight in a window at our home made getting seeds growing under lights a necessity. Having never grown under lights before, I’m sure there will be a [...]
Filed under: Seed Starting on January 29th, 2011 | 2 Comments »
It’s been one week since I tucked my allium seeds into plastic bags to see how they would germinate. The results are not surprising for some. My Red Of Florence, a red bulbing onion from Johnny’s seed had the poorest test. Out of ten seeds, I had one sure sprout, one that looked like it [...]
Filed under: Seed Starting on January 19th, 2011 | Comments Off