It's finally spring! Though it's still cool outside, the winter garden gets warm enough during the day to sit there, in a T-shirt, and enjoy the sunshine while working. The first crocuses are in bloom, most of our pruning work has been done, and it's really nice to be out in the garden and get the hands dirty again. Even though the garden is small, there is plenty of opportunity to get dirty hands...
And yesterday I put the first tomato and chili seeds into soil for this year. Much of them was seeds that I took from plants myself last year, so I will have an even harder time waiting for them to sprout than usually - since I cannot be sure that they will sprout. (Due to this, I might have put a few more seeds into the ground. Like usual... good thing we have friends and neighbours and family who do not mind a tomato plant or two in case they all grow!)
Thursday, 7 March 2013
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Soak your seeds for an hour before you put them in the ground. If the seeds float they're dead and won't grow.
Thanks for that, Jennifer - I used that trick on some of my seeds with a notoriously low germination quota. That did reduce the amount of seed tray area needed considerably : )
I'm glad to be of service. We're just starting to get the garden ready to go now.
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