Showing posts with label basil. Show all posts
Showing posts with label basil. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Raspberries

The remainder of the raspberry plants were planted last night in the falling dark, twelve in all. I noticed this morning that one Poblano pepper seed and several more basil have sprouted on top of the grow lights. If it is not raining too hard tonight, I will plant the asparagus.

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).”