Of course each plant has
its own growth rate so many weren’t quite sprouting during the first round of
photos.
Day 6 we have a few plants showing
some green.
Sugar Snap Peas:
Roma and Beefsteak Tomatoes:
I don’t know about you but
seeing that first seedling sprout is such a relief.
Day 8 a few more plants start
appearing. Like the Sweet Tomatoes:
Some flowers started
sprouting:
The sunflower keeps its
protective seed coat, unassumingly, for defense until they’re a little bigger.
While the snap peas are
doing extremely well (a friend told us they prefer cold). The Salvia Bonfire (flowers) were a bit on the
shy side.
More growth from the Roma
Tomato:
It’s really hard for me not to bust out the Laday Gaga song:
Rah Rah ah ah ah Roma Roma ma ooh la la!
Maybe it will be their new rain dance song?!
One little pumpkin:
Day 12
The peas are getting so tall!
Look at those pumpkins go!
Still no watermelon:
The corn is slow but peaking their heads out.
That growth in on the
bottom of the photo is their over-achiever tomato neighbor.
Yay most of the plants were
popping up! What a relief to know that
we didn’t have the biggest black thumbs!
As far as our watering
habits, they were watered and/or misted daily for the first couple weeks and
then trickled to every other day or so. I must say starting them in the
basement while having the dehumidifier running wasn’t the best idea as the soil
dried out quicker. It’s not like we can just turn it off when we’re growing
seeds because we would have standing water. You better believe it has been
added to the Lessons Learned tab.
Oh and papertowel/toilet paper rolls was added to the lessons learned because when I went to water them, they were always so dry that they seemed to need additional feeding.
I also tried to move the
plants around, as in turn the entire box around or switch the boxes with slow
growth to the middle for more direct light and heat. This usually happened when
I saw the plants severely creeping towards the nearest light bulb or to
encourage the puny ones.
Our set up was 50% Ghetto,
50% genius/use wacha got. You
may remember that we tried to
save some money this round to get our feet wet by using newspaper and powerade
drink boxes. We also used Styrofoam insulation (we’re planning to use it
elsewhere in the house) purchased a while back from our local Restore as the base to hold the plants. Underneath the Styrofoam are
regular ‘ol construction saw horses. Then the ghetto creative part was
to use whatever was lying around to elevate the lights. We’re talking scrap
pieces of trim, some cut off pieces of post supports, etc. The lights were
actually taken from our garage and the attic (you know when we tore that placeup).
I’m sure the neighbors
probably thought we were growing a little something, well illegal since you
could see a ‘glow’ outside the window.
I’m so glad the boyfriend
jimmy rigged everything together because there was no way the basement was warm
enough (we still had <60°F weather consistently). Let alone captured enough
sunlight from two glass block windows.
Do you worry your neighbors
think you’re growing a super pumpkin or something very illegal? Is Lady Gaga
and her Bad Romance song stuck in your head? Do you think singing to the plants
is crazy or the secret to plant success since they look pretty healthy?
Want to follow along with
Adventures in Gardening? Here’s the Beginning, Planning
and Research, a Garden
Décor Tutorial, and planting seeds.
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