Almost everything from the first sowing in the greenhouse has sprouted. This in itself is a big improvement over last year. Of the three subsequent sowings, most of that has come up as well. The sprouted plants were moved to flats without cloches as they came up. Now it is a matter of moving the un-sprouted plants to a covered flat. Everything that had sprouted as of Monday received a foliar feeding of organic fertilizer.
The organic spray bottle fits on a garden hose. The spray is a little bit strong for tiny plants. It may be necessary to mix some of it in a spray bottle until the plants get a little bit larger and stronger. A new hose nozzle was purchased at the same time. It has not been tried yet, but it has a mist feature which should provide a more gentle spray.
The garden plants that were damaged by the hard freeze have not recovered. If they have not shown more resilience by the weekend they will be pulled off. I wonder if a new planting of any of the greens would be successful. There are cabbage, broccoli and pak choy plants in the greenhouse which will go into the garden as soon as they are large enough. They can be covered if another really hard freeze is predicted after they are set out.
David Segrest is an International REALTOR in Charlotte, NC. His email is david@segrestrealty.com , His webpage is http://davidsegrest.com , and his international real estate blog is http://dointernationalrealestate.blogspot.com/
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Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Monday, January 21, 2008
More Hard Freezes
More Hard Freezes
We got down to 24 degrees the night of the 17th. My first out-of-the-house action that morning was to check the greenhouse. It was nice and toasty. Since then we have had sub-freezing temperatures almost every night. Last night it went to 17 degrees. I did not go out this morning because I leave for work at 0 dark 30.
Saturday the weatherman called for snow starting at 2:00 in the AM. It did not happen. Saturday morning I put all of the seeds to be started into cups of warm water to start the germination process. My “Indoor Gardening” book (I will give the references and a review in a later blog) said not to leave them there over 24 hours. I took them out Sunday morning. By the way it did finally start snowing Saturday morning; but it never got cold enough to stick.
I put the seeds between labeled sheets of paper towels and layered them in a flat. I put the flat on a heating pad in the greenhouse and soaked the paper towels with warm water. I will check them every day and when they start to sprout they are planted in cups, peat pots or jiffy cubes. I bought 50 jiffy cubes to give them a try. I will let you know how they work.
David Segrest is an International REALTOR in Charlotte, NC. His email is david@segrestrealty.com , His webpage is http://www.segrestrealty.com/ , and his international real estate blog is http://dointernationalrealestate.blogspot.com/.
We got down to 24 degrees the night of the 17th. My first out-of-the-house action that morning was to check the greenhouse. It was nice and toasty. Since then we have had sub-freezing temperatures almost every night. Last night it went to 17 degrees. I did not go out this morning because I leave for work at 0 dark 30.
Saturday the weatherman called for snow starting at 2:00 in the AM. It did not happen. Saturday morning I put all of the seeds to be started into cups of warm water to start the germination process. My “Indoor Gardening” book (I will give the references and a review in a later blog) said not to leave them there over 24 hours. I took them out Sunday morning. By the way it did finally start snowing Saturday morning; but it never got cold enough to stick.
I put the seeds between labeled sheets of paper towels and layered them in a flat. I put the flat on a heating pad in the greenhouse and soaked the paper towels with warm water. I will check them every day and when they start to sprout they are planted in cups, peat pots or jiffy cubes. I bought 50 jiffy cubes to give them a try. I will let you know how they work.
David Segrest is an International REALTOR in Charlotte, NC. His email is david@segrestrealty.com , His webpage is http://www.segrestrealty.com/ , and his international real estate blog is http://dointernationalrealestate.blogspot.com/.
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