Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Seedlings emerge

They say cucumbers once the heat is already there, the seeds germinate fast and the plants grow faster. It must be!, because the seeds already exploted with our high 70's F degrees and I sowed my seeds around 5 days ago.

Cu cu cu cucumber army.

I bought herbs around a week ago, but at the same time I grabbed a little strawberry plant and now there are 3 flowers in the plant. Anyway my book says strawberry is the first fruit of the summer.

Very, very strawberry bloom.


Mint is a very invasive herb and you bet it is, since I got the plant 5 days ago and placed it in a pot directly in the sun; the runners are already out of the 6 inches pot, the herb grows quickly, that's why people recommend to grow it in pots (so did I!).
Many seeds are already sowed in plain vermiculite, hopefully the next days I'll start to see them showing up(sweet peppers, habanero and cayenne pepper).
A new batch of tomato seeds are growing as well in case something wrong happens to the actual ones already developed, is way better to take caution than been sorry.

Pots and seedlings.

Today my brother tested the sprinkle system and calibrated it, he says it works well, so we are almost 90% for the garden to be up and running(not a bad time for the date we are at). The sod and mulch are basically the last thing to do besides a tiny bit more of piping work on the very outside of the exterior patio.

My brother's engineer creation. Only the timer is missing.


One thing I'm very afraid of are "wasps", never been stunged by one, so everytime I see one close to me I try to scare the hell out of them, till now the method has worked, but when water has been spilled on the soil, it attracts the wasps a lot.(and I run of course). I've seen a lot of wasps today.

My garden terror #1(red means stop or danger isn't?)

Don't forget the radishes, they are growing now, but no pictures to display. I've been using bonemeal fertilizer to see if the bulbs develop this season(after a total failure last year). I'll keep in touch.


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