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Starting seeds
Mar. 31st, 2019 07:05 pmI'm late getting seeds into the ground, but I've got some things started. The kid's potatoes and flowers are coming up, and I have seeds in the ground: Tomato, pepper, ground cherry, oregano, thyme, savory, prickly pear, lovage, cleome, sunflower, basil, lemon balm.
More soon. Not exactly the selection I was hoping for; I forgot to stratify things in time, yet again. Now I have a yearly calendar event set for January 15th to remind me about that. I wonder if that's too early or late, assuming a 6–8 week stratification and a week or two in seed flats.
Planting the tiny seeds of plants in the Lamiaciae (oregano, thyme, savory, basil...) I am again amazed at how my thick meat-fingers can sense and manipulate such tiny objects.
Some of these things are easier to grow from cuttings or root division. But I feel compelled to grow them from seed. Something in me values the genetic diversity (and possibility of new varieties) more than the ease and reliability of clonal propagation.
I'm also starting to harden off the perennials so they can live in the front yard again. It'll be nice to get the citrus out again under the bright sunlight they deserve.
More soon. Not exactly the selection I was hoping for; I forgot to stratify things in time, yet again. Now I have a yearly calendar event set for January 15th to remind me about that. I wonder if that's too early or late, assuming a 6–8 week stratification and a week or two in seed flats.
Planting the tiny seeds of plants in the Lamiaciae (oregano, thyme, savory, basil...) I am again amazed at how my thick meat-fingers can sense and manipulate such tiny objects.
Some of these things are easier to grow from cuttings or root division. But I feel compelled to grow them from seed. Something in me values the genetic diversity (and possibility of new varieties) more than the ease and reliability of clonal propagation.
I'm also starting to harden off the perennials so they can live in the front yard again. It'll be nice to get the citrus out again under the bright sunlight they deserve.
