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March 3, 2010

Crazy Happy Cilantro

So, the only mature cilantro plant I have seen has been staked and had a huge stem and was almost 24″ tall. I had started some seeds a few weeks back thinking that I would have to stake them at some point. I did try to stake them. They unstaked themselves within about 48 hours. […]

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March 2, 2010

Martha Stewart Links

I’m not normally a huge Martha Stewart fan, but today I happened to have a free moment and looked at her show which was about greenhouses and begonias! Her greenhouses are just gorgeous of course. You wouldn’t believe how easy it is to propagate begonias! Made me want to get some and try it myself […]

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March 2, 2010

Scheduler

Take a look up in the left hand corner of the screen and you will see a tab called “Scheduler.” This is where I am posting my seed starting, emerging and harvesting times so you can see how long everything took/takes. Enjoy! (the calendar that you see on the left side of the screen is […]

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March 1, 2010

Light Sources

So, when I first started some seeds indoors I did not realize that I would need artificial light in order for the plants to thrive. I put them by a sunny window in March and some plants did not do so well. Mostly the issue was that they were very tall. Some to the point […]

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February 28, 2010

The Victory Garden

I was just reading my Farmer’s Almanac for this year and found out the meaning behind the term “Victory Garden.” In 1588 Queen Elizabeth sent riders out into the country side to tell the folks out there to prepare for war. One of the main things that was told to everyone through out the land […]

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February 28, 2010

Cilantro Harvest!

Last night with dinner I made a plate of tomatoes with lime juice, salt, pepper and fresh cilantro on top from my indoor garden! Here is a picture: I see earlier posts for when these seeds were started.

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February 27, 2010

Staking the Tomatoes

Well, the tomatoes are about 6-8 inches tall now, and they are getting a little wobbly. I will be staking them with chopsticks to start off with. It won’t be too much longer before I will need real garden stakes, and I might need to separate them. We’ll see how unruly they get as they […]

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February 24, 2010

Seedlings looking more like plants

My seedlings for the Cilantro, Basil and Tomatoes have been up for a few weeks now and doing great! The Cilantro is a bit unruly, so I have it staked with the first thing I grabbed which was a pencil and a paint brush! The tomatoes will need to be separated at some point but […]

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February 22, 2010

Alyssum Babies Are Up!

I started some annual flower seeds indoors this week. My daughter, Maddie, helped me plant them. The seeds were so darn small I wasn’t even convinced that we had planted anything at all! But the baby Alyssum is up! These seedlings are so small and delicate that I am not at all convinced they will […]

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