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mouse_rants) wrote2007-01-27 10:56 pm
mouse_rants) wrote2007-01-27 10:56 pm
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i'm lucky i don't live in a place where it _really_ gets cold.
after (i think) two whole weeks when the nighttime temperature dove into the 40s (and even the 30s!), i am feeling totally relieved at signs that the long hard winter is finally past. not that it's balmy yet - today's high was just over 60 - but it was sunny, and so with visions of springtime dancing in my head, i made a visit to the new local nursery - just to check it out. i only ended up buying 3 small plants, so it hardly counts at all. well, and some peat pots, so i have planted various seeds, in hopes that they will come to something.
i haven't had much luck with seeds. the ones i plant outside generally disappear without a trace. i've gotten a few to sprout in pots, but i think the only things i've gotten to any sort of maturity are radishes. well, and catgrass - fortunately, that seems to be pretty foolproof to grow. anyway, i will keep this batch inside, in hopes that they will get big enough to withstand the snails or bugs or whatever it is that takes them out so quickly - or at least leave me with some sign of where they were. they are (for the most part) an assortment of small or dwarf vegetables - 2 kinds of tomatoes, dwarf runner beans, dwarf corn, dwarf calabrese (which i believe is actual a type of broccoli), and bush eggplants. i don't know quite why i am so determined to grow vegetables, i have so little space that even if everything i had room for grew to fruition, it would make maybe two good meals. (although the description of the melons sounds so tasty, even one of those would be wonderful to have - as long as they don't take over the entire patio to produce it)
but i really like the idea of dwarf vegetables. i have some cabbage seed as well - the idea of golf-ball sized cabbage is just really appealing, somehow. guess i'd better find a place for another tray of peat pots.
i haven't had much luck with seeds. the ones i plant outside generally disappear without a trace. i've gotten a few to sprout in pots, but i think the only things i've gotten to any sort of maturity are radishes. well, and catgrass - fortunately, that seems to be pretty foolproof to grow. anyway, i will keep this batch inside, in hopes that they will get big enough to withstand the snails or bugs or whatever it is that takes them out so quickly - or at least leave me with some sign of where they were. they are (for the most part) an assortment of small or dwarf vegetables - 2 kinds of tomatoes, dwarf runner beans, dwarf corn, dwarf calabrese (which i believe is actual a type of broccoli), and bush eggplants. i don't know quite why i am so determined to grow vegetables, i have so little space that even if everything i had room for grew to fruition, it would make maybe two good meals. (although the description of the melons sounds so tasty, even one of those would be wonderful to have - as long as they don't take over the entire patio to produce it)
but i really like the idea of dwarf vegetables. i have some cabbage seed as well - the idea of golf-ball sized cabbage is just really appealing, somehow. guess i'd better find a place for another tray of peat pots.