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Mar. 14th, 2006 11:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dragonlady7So I started two dozen tomato seeds today. I have one grow space set up in the basement under a four-foot fluorescent fixture on an eighteen-hour timer. I also pried off a sealed-shut heat vent in the basement, so it's actually above fifty down there. It's my bit of extravagance-- also makes the laundry dry better down there.
The other grow space is in front of my east-facing picture window. I've currently got no artificial lights on it at all. If it would ever be sunny, it'd be nice there. It's probably not much warmer there than the basement at this point. So far I'm having about equal germination rates on the windowsill and in the basement. Of the violas and strawberries, I got like three plants total out of like 25 of each, which is pretty abysmal. But of the peppers, I'm getting a lot higher success rate. I wish I knew what the difference was.
I went outside this morning and took photos of the snowdrops while snow was falling. They're all in bloom. The crocuses are all coming up, and many of them are in bud so you can see that I have not only purple ones now but also yellow ones and white ones and a couple that seem to be bicolored. I'm really excited. Although if any of you remember last year, when I posted about four hundred thousand photos of my crocuses (all of which were purple then)... Yeah, I get excited about crocuses.
I wonder how soon is too soon to plant lettuce outside. Because it says "as soon as the ground can be worked" but the ground never froze this year.
The other grow space is in front of my east-facing picture window. I've currently got no artificial lights on it at all. If it would ever be sunny, it'd be nice there. It's probably not much warmer there than the basement at this point. So far I'm having about equal germination rates on the windowsill and in the basement. Of the violas and strawberries, I got like three plants total out of like 25 of each, which is pretty abysmal. But of the peppers, I'm getting a lot higher success rate. I wish I knew what the difference was.
I went outside this morning and took photos of the snowdrops while snow was falling. They're all in bloom. The crocuses are all coming up, and many of them are in bud so you can see that I have not only purple ones now but also yellow ones and white ones and a couple that seem to be bicolored. I'm really excited. Although if any of you remember last year, when I posted about four hundred thousand photos of my crocuses (all of which were purple then)... Yeah, I get excited about crocuses.
I wonder how soon is too soon to plant lettuce outside. Because it says "as soon as the ground can be worked" but the ground never froze this year.
