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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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February 22, 2010

Water

My tap water is so hard and full of chlorine that I have to find a different source for watering my plants. The very first thing I did when I noticed that the chlorine was burning my plants was to go to the store and buy 3 jugs of water immediately! I was in a […]

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February 22, 2010

Indoor garden Started!

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 […]

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February 22, 2010

The Indoor Garden Experiment 1.0

In my search for the eternal summer I have started an indoor garden here in Minnesota! The purpose; to be able to garden from seed to table year-round. I have started some seeds indoors before with mixed results. Most of the seedlings got too tall and toppled over and died. Some of them were too […]

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