I’ve done it! I rebuilt my 3 boxes to be double high.
Isn’t that enough for week 6? Just kidding. I also continued to transplant my seed starts–tomatoes, bell peppers, basil. Almost everything is out of vermiculite and growing under my lights.
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Success #1: I got all the vinyl cut, routed, and ready to build boxes! Here is my son building a “house.” His fun will be over when I actually set up my boxes!
Success #2: I purchased all the compost, peat moss, and vermiculite I need!!!
Costs:
$33.50 peat moss (3 bales @ $10.50 each, 3.0 cu ft) Even [...]
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Growing Outside
Garlic – Waiting for sprouts to appear
Growing Inside – Individual Pots
Broccoli – 2 plants growing in individual pots
Transplants Done This Week
Cherry tomatoes – 5 of 5 seeds sprouted in vermiculite, transplanted best one to individual pot
Roma tomatoes - 3 of 3 seeds sprouted in vermiculite, transplanted best one to individual pot
Early girl tomatoes – 5 of [...]
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Most everything has sprouted! Today I transplanted into pots:
Broccoli
Cauliflower
Dill
Onions
Parsley
My peppers have not sprouted yet, and I’m trying to not be nervous about it. If they don’t show up soon, I may restart more seeds.
This time I used Miracle Grow potting soil. I put it in a bucket and got it most (not wet) before filling [...]
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Salt Lake Valley SWMF Compost
801-674-6920
6030 W California Ave
SLC, UT 84104
$30 for a truck bed full
Timpanogos Special Service District
801-756-5231
5050 W 6400 N (Utah County)
American Fork UT 84003
$20 for a cubic yard (will not fill your truck bed)
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I’ve got my cute little indoor greenhouse set up and my plants seem to enjoy it. I don’t have a great sunny location in my house so I try to rotate the greenhouse so my plants don’t lean to the sunshine too badly. It would probably help to get some lights, but it’s [...]
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I don’t have any photos this week, because it was sad. I don’t know if it was from my peat pellets (they grew a hairy white mold) or contaminated soil I brought in from the garden, but my plants had a green mold growing on them, and there were gnats. I tossed it all, and [...]
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Everything is growing! I am very excited.
The other fun news is that I bought lights to help my new seedlings grow:
2 shop lights ($8 each) = $16
1 pack (2 bulbs) cool florescent bulbs = $8
1 pack (2 bulbs) warm florescent bulbs = $8
TOTAL = $32
Here is my setup:
So, the top shelf has my jalepeno peppers [...]
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In the garden:
I got ambitious with prepping my gardens this week. I supplemented my compost-filled beds with some peat moss and vermiculite and filled in the remaining space with fresh compost. Pulled some weeds out of the garden and my surrounding paver stones.
Planning to start some garlic outdoors this week. Timing on garlic is weird [...]
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