A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval....Mark Twain.........Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest....Mark Twain.....Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time....Mark Twain....It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt....Mark Twain....Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please...Mark Twain....Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed....Mark Twain...Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint New beginnings and other musings...: Thoughts on plants...

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Thoughts on plants...

I have always loved plants and gardening and the beauty of Spring, with everything renewing the view outside from the dead and brown winter scape into one of lush greenness and flowers.
This past Spring I decided this year to attempt to start all of my plants from seed. I have tried this in the past without much success, but this time I decided to get serious about it and make it work.
After all, every single plant you buy at the local store has started from seed by people who have access to green houses and controlled growing environments. Surely I am as talented as they are and have a very nice garage with space in it to set up the flats. So in February I set up a grow light in the garage and bought an assortment of seed, both veggies and flowers and flats and dirt. Carefully planting the seeds I watched and watered them on a daily basis, and soon was rewarded with little sprouts which grew and grew until they reached their limit. Unfortunately their limit seemed to be scrawny little plants and after awhile they started to die off. I still had a few though and thought it was warming enough to move them outside so they could get used to real daylight. Sadly the flowers all died off, seems missing a day of watering one time when we had gone away on an overnight trip was the reason for their demise.
I was rewarded with some very nice tomato plants that did very well, so many that some are in my garden and some are off in some of my friend's gardens.
I found I did best with flowers, just sowing them directly in the pots they were going to grow in, early in April. It takes a bit longer to get the flowers, it's not the instant gratification of buying an already blooming pot of plants or buying seedlings with flowers already in place.
But I find it much more gratifying in knowing that I started these flowers with a simple seed and some water and letting the power of this wonderful time we call Spring take care of the rest...
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A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval....Mark Twain.........Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest....Mark Twain.....Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time....Mark Twain....It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt....Mark Twain....Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please...Mark Twain....Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed....Mark Twain...Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint...