TerryP
Staff
@psychojoe
I was mobile when I got the message...even with voice to text "its" interpretation of what I was saying wasn't translated properly. I'm not sure if I want to blame the phone or the other activities of last night.
Anyway...
You've been to deli's that served you a sandwich in a plastic container, right? Normally, much like Chinese food containers, the bottom is a real sturdy plastic and the top a see through, plastic type material? The deli down the street has some for a specialty sandwich. The bottom is around three and a half, four, inches deep and about a six by six square.
It's like this one, but the strength of the plastic is freezer quality.
So...think I may have mentioned this to you. At the first of last winter I was in Home Depot and ran across a 50 pack of peet moss plant containers; about 3" in diameter and a little deeper. They were clearing them out and I want to say I paid 2.79 or something like that--bought 100.
Around the time of the NC in football I started tomatoes--determinate--from seed in these containers. I used the compost from the bin I told you about, planted the seed, watered and used some fish based fertilizer, and stored these moss containers in the food containers.
In a nutshell, portable green houses for starting plants, right?
The space this year is a little bigger than last year: 50 more square feet approximately. Same routine as last year in soil prep.
Right now, I've got eight of the determinate tomatoes in the ground. They've been there for about two weeks. I've covered them overnight once due to frost potential.
Cabbage is bigger than a basketball right now--three of those in. Two rows of Kale going well...about the height of a volleyball there as well.
Roughly sixty bean plants, sprouting, largest about an inch and a half high.
Everything else is in the containers, sitting off the the side in a spare room, growing their little asses off.
Remember the pollination deal last year? I'm planning on hand pollinating the squash/zucchini plants again this year...same for the tomatoes, etc. But, going for hummingbirds in one area of the back to give me a hand. After talking with @Bamabww about bees...working from that angle is just out of the question.
I was mobile when I got the message...even with voice to text "its" interpretation of what I was saying wasn't translated properly. I'm not sure if I want to blame the phone or the other activities of last night.
Anyway...
You've been to deli's that served you a sandwich in a plastic container, right? Normally, much like Chinese food containers, the bottom is a real sturdy plastic and the top a see through, plastic type material? The deli down the street has some for a specialty sandwich. The bottom is around three and a half, four, inches deep and about a six by six square.
It's like this one, but the strength of the plastic is freezer quality.
So...think I may have mentioned this to you. At the first of last winter I was in Home Depot and ran across a 50 pack of peet moss plant containers; about 3" in diameter and a little deeper. They were clearing them out and I want to say I paid 2.79 or something like that--bought 100.
Around the time of the NC in football I started tomatoes--determinate--from seed in these containers. I used the compost from the bin I told you about, planted the seed, watered and used some fish based fertilizer, and stored these moss containers in the food containers.
In a nutshell, portable green houses for starting plants, right?
The space this year is a little bigger than last year: 50 more square feet approximately. Same routine as last year in soil prep.
Right now, I've got eight of the determinate tomatoes in the ground. They've been there for about two weeks. I've covered them overnight once due to frost potential.
Cabbage is bigger than a basketball right now--three of those in. Two rows of Kale going well...about the height of a volleyball there as well.
Roughly sixty bean plants, sprouting, largest about an inch and a half high.
Everything else is in the containers, sitting off the the side in a spare room, growing their little asses off.
Remember the pollination deal last year? I'm planning on hand pollinating the squash/zucchini plants again this year...same for the tomatoes, etc. But, going for hummingbirds in one area of the back to give me a hand. After talking with @Bamabww about bees...working from that angle is just out of the question.
