I did not know about the leaves, so that is useful information! If I can get them going I will probably use the leaves, so I can donate the seeds to the seed library.
I have some purple coneflower seeds in cardboard pots now, so this is useful to know. I really need to look up which part(s) of the plant are supposed to be used for tea. 🤔 If I can cut it back for that early enough I hope it will be less of an issue.
One of my tomato pots is getting the stink eye right now. There is what looks suspiciously like another tomato seedling at the base of the first seedling. 🤨 Best guess is they were two seeds stuck together or else I accidentally dropped the seed for Pot #4 into Pot #3 because that one remains...
For thinning I usually cheat and just put one seed per pot to begin with, or if they’re too small for that (EX: oregano) I just let them duke it out among themselves. :oops:
Sounds like you’re going to be doing well as far as syrup! Do you need to do anything about the holes in the trees when you’re done or do they just seal up on their own?
jerryse already responded but I’ll answer anyway. Scarification is the removal of part of the seed coating to allow water to access the seed more easily, and by extension trigger germination. So you take your pumpkin seed and rub it against sandpaper or trim away a little bit of the edge until...
Seed swaps, seed libraries, and for purchase I’ve had good luck with MIGardener. I also got some Montreal Market Muskmelon seeds from Fedco last year that did well, and this year I’m trying some Fish Peppers from Baker’s Creek, we’ll see how that goes.
Two of my tomatoes sprouted! Two more to go! :yesss:
My peppers haven’t done anything either yet. I haven’t done pumpkins or cushaw specifically before but did you scarify the seeds? (I feel like I asked this before. If I did I apologize for the repetition.) I did that with most of my big...
I know I’ve been strongly reconsidering what I’m going to plant. The major part of my garden maintenance is looking like it will need to be put off regardless and the rest isn’t supposed to be until September. I was going to stick to short season stuff or things small enough to move easily -...
The 48 hours of soaking is done although I’m not sure why it turned the water green. 🤨
It’s planted now anyway. 🤷♀️ It’s on the heat mat with the peppers but that 80 degrees might not actually be warm enough in the long term. 🤔
I had meant to plant the coffee today, but I neglected to check the packet until I went to check the planting depth and apparently it needs to soak for two days! So I guess that’s going to be a Tuesday thing. At least I got the pot prepped.
I got my pepper seeds started and the first round of tomatoes too:
For later reference:
Yellow toothpicks are Cayenne
Blue are Fish
Red are Ghost
The ones without toothpicks are Silvery Fir Tree Tomatoes
They’re on a heat mat set at 80 degrees currently. The plan is to move the tomatoes into...