A Weird Hillbilly's Garden

[Ninurta]

Way to go Ninurta! Always happy to see people growing plants!

Too early here, hard freeze and snow coming in a few days. Have some bedding plants ready to go when it warms up a bit, have them under grow lights inside right now. Getting ready to start some seeds on several things that I need to wait a while on planting. I container garden so freeze hits a little harder that plants in the ground- hazards of apartment living.

We are getting rid of our patio loveseat and coffee table to make more room for veggies this year. I got several potato grow bags and a stack of planters that fit on the patio rails to make better use of my space in addition to my usual pots, planters and hanging baskets. Will be plenty of fruits and veggies by very early summer and different ones coming in until late fall.

Suck it grocery store! I'm not paying your rent! 

I've started these in a 72 pellet tray of peat pellets indoors. Right now, they are sitting on top of a heater gizzy in the kitchen window, indoors. The heater is one of those Amish electric heaters that simulates a fireplace, and the heat is thrown out at the bottom. Ceiling fan circulates it through the kitchen and into the living room, so sitting the tray atop the heater should give it about the right amount of heat.

Last frost here is usually around the end of April or beginning of May, so they'll be indoors until then. The Quinoa can survive a light frost. It's good down to about 27 degrees Fahrenheit, if it takes root at all.

I checked the tray a while ago, and the tobacco cotyledons are up and opening now. I planted 12 pellets with the tobacco, or so I thought, but one of them doesn't have any sprouts. Since this tobacco is some super sprouting stuff - I'd say it has at least a 98% germination rate - I'm guessing I just missed that pellet and will need to re-seed it.

Off to take more pictures now to document the grow. I claim it's for documentation, but really I've found that when I take pictures and then view them on the computer at magnification, I can pick out details that my tired old eyes can't see under their own power...

As a parting shot, here is an image of a tobacco seed found in an archaeological dig at Jamestown, the birthplace of English tobacco farming in America. it's about 400 years old, and I am amazed they found it in all that dirt - tobacco seeds are really tiny, almost like dust or small grains of sand:



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