@Cjp That looks great! What a harvest. Nothing better than fresh herbs
@SassyRocks I normally use pots but for this sow probe the tiny containers were just right. They would have been thrown away after 3 weeks of no sprouting. They donāt get damped much. Just to stay a bit moist.
Iāll test some old seed if itās still ok the next weeks, so more of this ācatproofā arrangements will follow.
Iām looking forward to your pictures
Thanks for the tip on lavender and deers. Once I hopefully own the farm alone Iāll give this a try to protect my veggie fields better. Brain runs wild on the idea of planting 200 lavender plants, another reason to make this dream come true. Iāve been entertaining this idea for about 6 years but noooo way with the ex. MAYBE this year
A lavender farm is a wonderful thing. I have about 30 plants right nowā¦more to come! Especially as the deer donāt care. Same for rosemary, sage, thyme, etc. And the herbs grow beautifully here and winter over.
@Tragicfarinelli I love your balcony and indoor plants @SassyRocks Georgeous. Me wanna too Maybe I give a fuck and order 200 plants. Orders where I want them from have to be placed by february, delivery from april on chosen date. dang, I can smell your harvest!
As planned, I pricked out the seedlings today. Also sowed some very old seed (tomatoes, eggplants, various herbs) to test if itās still germinable. Declutter your seed storage
Ooooh I donāt know ? I just know I brought a few different seeds of the large variety and going to see what happens.
Give us something to keep busy
3 metres !! Wow.
We have so many beautiful seeds here available, I plan on sowing them from white, yellow, orange to dark red and coloured in a row. Have been dreaming of it for years and always postponed it.
The tall one grew in a freshly filled raised bed
They are coming along nice. I havenāt started yet itās too wet and cold where Iām on the UK ATM.
So I brought a few tomatoe varieties and sunflowers seeds. Just to keep me busy and see how they grow outdoors.
I usually start them indoors but exhausted from moving so going to just see how they do straight outside in a few weeks.
Definitely give your dream a go, it will look beautiful
I canāt put giant sunflowers on a fourth-floor window box; Iād have authorities knocking at the door in a minute. I might ask my mum for a corner of her garden, though.
But Iām itching to plant my cherry tomatoes. At the moment Iām drying some seeds out of actual cherries, and Iāll start them indoors this weekend.
Motherās Day here (mid May) in my growing zone in America is known as the time to be planting. I donāt have a space to start seeds indoors but there are things I can sow in the ground with enough time to grow still here. I usually buy starter plants from local growers at our farmerās market and have great luck with that. So, still a long ways out for me! I will have lots of prep work to do, though. Building some raised beds and digging up turf for beds in the ground will be a lot of work.
my now seedlings are result of seeds so old I just wanted to see if they are still growable. I would never have expected this outcome! and the notorious lazy ones, even 8 years old, are sprouting a bit. iāll have a difficult time fostering them till may - here we are also careful because weather can be summerish in march and frosty in april till may thank you climate change. at their actual growing rate Iāll have to replant them twice. Challenge accepted, Iāve done a similar chance growing years ago and harvested end of june. They are too healthy to abandon them (I would when they show signs of detoriation due to old seed).
my today check is an old maze variety, harvest 2016. As two colleagues from ARCHE NOAH asked for seed, I check if and how theyāll sprout. Iām a weirdo and and Iām grateful that after years I get back to things Iām good at. Still loving it
if you have space and a sunny window, you can grow 1 sunflower in a pot one of an old seed seed bag I tried a few years ago survived and was a beautiful indoor plant (was a little one, 60 cm). just sharing, it was a nice new experience then for me.
I canāt help smiling like a little weirdo that some of these old seeds made it to these beautiful seedlings. Itās beautiful to watch how much power some still have allthough their normal period of being germinable is long over. The wonders of nature in a pot
thank you climate change. at their actual growing rate Iāll have to replant them twice. Challenge accepted, Iāve done a similar chance growing years ago and harvested end of june. They are too healthy to abandon them (I would when they show signs of detoriation due to old seed).
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