Sunday, May 1, 2011

Sproutlings

We have six spinach sprouts now transplanted from the baggy to soil blocks. That is six out of twenty-four Melody spinach seeds. One of the twenty Bloomsdale seeds have sprouted. This took 5 days.

About half of the twenty basil seeds that were placed in a baggy on top of the fluorescent light fixture have sprouted and been transplanted (5 days). I had zero basil seeds sprout from the original planting in soil blocks.

April broke many records for rainfall in our area. According to Aaron Reynolds, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Buffalo, "“There’s only been six days without rain this month. The only day that was above 60 degrees without precipitation was April 9 (the high was 62 degrees).”

3 comments:

  1. I used to run a gravely 25 years ago. I thought it was awesome. I don't suppose they still make them?..

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  2. Ariens bought the company and stopped making the two-wheel tractors about 10 years ago. You have to admire the solid way they are built. You can still buy running Gravely's that are 50 years old on eBay. A European company (BCS) appears to offer the best options now if you want a new two-wheel tractor.

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  3. Ariens bought the company and they stopped making the two-wheel tractors about 10 years ago, but there are very similar machines available from Europe, the most popular being from BCS. You can still buy Gravely's on eBay that are fifty years old and still going strong.

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