So, the tomato plants have some yellow leaves on the bottom! That are falling off!!!
The health of the over all plant is good though, so not a huge concern. Here is a picture:
If a plant gets sunburned (which it can from indoor lighting as well as very hot direct sunlight) sometimes the first leaves will yellow and fall off. Other leaves with sunburn may show white-ish gray spots. Normally someone living in MN wouldn’t have to worry about sunburned tomatoes at all! Desert climates and summer heat down south can burn plants though.
Here is a picture for you:
It’s just the bottom leaves (the first leaves) that have an issue. The rest are green and healthy. 🙂
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My tomatoes are outgrowing their spot on the shelf:
So I had to move them to a new place! I am scared to put them on the ground because I have 3 cats who would probably love to dig in the dirt they are planted in and see how they taste just for the fun of it!
So now, they are living on a little plant stand next to the shelf and have plenty of room to grow upward, for now. 🙂
Here they will stay until they are too tall to get good light on them from above. Then I will have to figure something else out!
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So, as most of you know, I started some Alyssum seeds a few weeks ago. I have a picture in that post of when the seeds emerged. Here is the latest pic. About a week after they emerged. They don’t have 2nd leaves yet, but in a few days I bet they will.
here is a picture of the 2 Sunshine Petunias that I got to germinate. I honestly don’t think there were any other seeds in the packet, but oh well! If these live I will be shocked!
I promised you all a picture of my tomatoes after I staked them, so here it is:
As you can see, you don’t need anything fancy when the tomatoes are this small! I have used 3 chopsticks, and 2 cooking skewers and some (not so sticky) tape. You don’t have to invest in stakes and green tape. At least not at this stage. You can use things that you have around the house.
Make sure that you tape them loosely, they need to continue to grow. Make sure that the stakes are taller than the plant when they are firmly placed into the soil next to them. Be very gentle when you place the stakes into the soil, and don’t place them right next to the base of the plant. This can destroy a tender root system. You can see from the picture that I have placed my stakes about 1 inch from the base of each plant.
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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.
So, here is my note: Cilantro is crazy, it wants to be crazy, it is happy to be crazy. 🙂 I have let mine grow into a huge mess and it is just as happy as can be. I could be controlling and really stake them well and make them grow taller etc… but I like the tender leaves and stems better anyway!!
Here is a picture of my crazy cilantro. This is after the harvest I took to put on the tomato platter I made! You can hardly tell I took anything at all.
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.
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 get larger. 🙂
A few more days until I will be eating fresh salsa from my cilantro! It is ready to harvest now, although I could easily let them grow for a few more weeks probably. That’s about one month seed to table for an early tender harvest. If you really want mature plants the thing to do is to stake each one as soon as it has mature leaves out. Mine have all fallen over, but are not dying at all. They are happy falling over and the next leaves that came are pointing up. I prefer the taste of very young leaves as opposed to the greener broader leaves that are on a more mature plant.
I will post pictures later!
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-Sara
Here is a short tour of my current indoor garden setup.
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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 they are happy together right now. 🙂
These plants I will be saving indoors for the exclusively indoor garden. Seed to table, to see if I can do it all indoors. This will involve my pollinating the flowers myself, which I’m not sure how to do yet. I’m sure Patti Moreno can show me how!
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I have started my indoor garden!
So far it consists of a small shelf, lots of shop lights with daylight bulbs and one with a grow bulb in it. I have some old pots that I am using as well as a few new seed starting trays with biodegradable seed pots inside for transplanting.
The regular pots that you see that are not specifically for seed starting are the pots that I want to try growing veggies and herbs from seed to table all indoors. Then maybe next Fall when everything is dieing outside I won’t feel so sad because I know I can really garden indoors year-round.
So far in those pots I have cilantro, basil and 5 tomato plants.
The seed starting trays will have flowers and veggies that I will transplant into the outdoor garden in the Spring. The packets say to start the veggies 6-8 weeks before planting, which means I am still waiting on a lot of that for 1 more month. The first safe planting here is the 3rd week in May!
So far all the plants are very happy and healthy. I have the lights on 12 hours per day, and I have a small fan on them almost all the time as well.
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Greenly, Sara M
