It’s been another long, difficult winter in North Texas, thanks for our boys in Congress who do not
seem able to man up and make the hard decisions for our country. We are streamlining business, and I have
taken a full-time temp job to help keeping the home fires burning so to speak. Despite the political scene, business is
starting to awaken a bit from its winter hibernation, with more calls coming in this month than usual for
February. It truly smells like spring is
on the threshold and it’s going to be a great year.
In anticipation of a great year, I have restarted a new
hobby, and planted some cucumber and tomato seeds. They are doing very well! I used the idea of toilet paper rolls to
start the seeds, and found it’s a feasible idea.
You have to have a container to keep them in, because they are wobbly
and obviously do not hold water. And you
should probably keep it down to one seed a roll, unless you plan to thin
seedlings (pulling out the weaker plants).
I had some old seed packets and chose to plant about three seeds each
roll, because I wasn’t sure if they would still be good. The cucumber seeds were only from last year, but
I really don’t remember when I got the tomato seeds, which were in packets that
really do not tell what variety they are.
My dear son decided to help my enthusiasm along, and after a
week from planting the seeds, he took leaves off of a honeysuckle and stuck
them in the dirt to make me think the seeds sprouted! It was very suspicious, since these “mystery
plants” just appeared overnight, but I have to admit it was a funny prank on
someone who is known to not have a green thumb.
A week later, those honeysuckle leaves are still green. The prank may
turn on him, if those leaves are taking root, because I’m going to need a fence
built to train them to grow on and who might I be thinking about to help build it! Today I
separated some of the vegetable seedlings into separate peet pots to give them
some room to grow.
Hopefully, my green thumb and 2013 will both grow into some
greatness!
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| The seed packets |
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| After transplanting some, I still have other seedlings still in the toilet paper rolls. The larger seedlings are the cucumber. The shorter "plant" that is darker green are the honeysuckle. Smaller seedlings are the tomatoes, which only just started sprouting a few days ago. |
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| The transplanted seedlings, in 3 inch peet pots. |
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| Baby tomatoes. I just put the whole toilet paper roll in a larger pot. I wasn't sure if the seedlings would handle being taken out of the roll and transplanted just yet. Off to the side is another honeysuckle. |
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| These are a couple tomato seedlings that I did transplant into a larger pot. Grow, babies, grow! |
