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Yesterday was a bit too breezy to deal with opening the cold frames to transfer seedlings and stuff so I started today because I sowed the rest of the eggplant and pepper seeds I had in the germinating bags and wanted to move them onto the heating mat.

(Waiting patiently on a shelf in the warm bathroom).

Dug around in the fava bean pots that hadn't produced seedlings and two of the pots had rotted seeds and two of the pots had seeds sending out roots. So I removed the two duds and put the rest out in the cold frame to harden off. Going to try transplanting them out early next week under a row cover.

I also dug into the cells of spinach and didn't find any seeds so I assume they rotted. Added fresh seed and put them out in the cold frame to germinate just in case it was too hot for them indoors. The fall-sown Double Choice Hybrid spinach is due for another harvest as you can see. I've got lettuce so it will probably end up in a salad.

Took the three bok choy that germinated in the same cell and separated and repotted them. I dug in the cells with the cabbage and found intact seed, so I moved the pack to the cold frame and will wait a bit longer for germination (I already reseeded last week).

Beet snail moved to cold frame to harden off. Also hope to get these transplanted with the favas. Parsnip snail total failure—can't find evidence of the seeds. Reseeded and covered with fresh soil. I have never gotten parsnips to germinate, but I'll keep trying. Maybe it was too warm...

I did also move the snails with my singular leek and singular shallot to the cold frame as well. I don't have enough new seed to resow them so we'll just have to see if anything else shows up or not without further interference.

Lettuce seedlings are starting to pop up. I'll wait until the favas and beets are in the ground then move this pack to the cold frame. I think the lavender seed is starting to sprout but what's coming up looks so much like the random tiny plants that's sprouting from the non-sterile potting soil I'm using that I'm going to have to wait and see.

And now all the eggplant and peppers fit. (btw I keep the temperature probe for the rheostat clipped to a cup of water instead of in one of the cells because I move things around a lot and don't want the probe jostling delicate roots)

I have no more sifted potting soil leftover for tomatoes and flowers and herbs though. Going to raid a few pots holding defunct houseplants to see if I can't get a few packs filled for the tomatoes at least since I'd like to set up the germination bags for them in the next day or so. My tomato goal for this year are cherry/grape tomatoes for chicken snacks, currant tomatoes for the freezer, and one or two varieties good for "sun"-dried tomatoes. It would be a year to can pizza sauce but I came into a quantity of tomato paste (conventional) and it's pretty easy to whip up "fresh" pizza sauce in minutes using those so I'll use the space (and effort) for something else.

#gardening #seed starting #germination #pre-germination #cold frames #we've got a brief chance for snow on Sunday so i couldn't move the earthboxes of green onions and swiss chard out of the cold frames yet #so everything is just kind of stuck wherever i could make it fit #after Sunday it will warm up a bit again so i'll probably be okay to move them out and just put row cover over them #i should dig the earthbox with the strawberries out of its bank of straw at the same time (the peppermint will stay put for another month)#there are certain types of seed that i cannot get to germinate for me including pretty much all alliums plus parsnips and poppies #i keep trying because it seems like other people have little trouble but there seems to be a trick to it that i haven't cracked yet #i did crack a few other things that kept giving me trouble—the secret was to sow them as transplants instead of directly #even if the seed packet and all the experienced gardeners said only to direct sow #either it's an issue with my soil or more likely seed predation but as long as you're careful you can transplant most things #oh that reminds me #i got some mixed birdseed last month and wanted to do a germ test on the black oil sunflower seeds in it #that's one thing i want to grow for the chickens but i can only find seed packets for the grey striped sunflower seeds locally #(ordering online is an issue for me)#they may have been treated in some fashion to prevent pests that will prevent germination but it's worth a shot #i also want to germ test my lentils and chickpeas while i'm at it #yep the season is ramping up...busy

Sometimes, when you’re in a dark place, you think you’ve been buried, but actually you’ve been planted.

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Getting to finally crack at plant handling again even if only for a little bit, but I've hit a bit of a mystery;

The nannyberry and wahoo seedlings halted thier growth under lights months ago; they were germinating/growing late spring but then just halted- this photo is on the nannyberries in October. I've never had this happen before. The pawpaw seedlings have grown moreso in comparison than either in the same space.

My only theory is that the growlight space has been too cool/cold (its in the basement by my bedroom, can't entirely be helped) and is the cause.

Should I get the heating pads out to try to warm things up and push growth or would it be too late considering it's october and these are temperate climate plants.

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Been offline for a while which is why I haven’t posted but!! Look!! New germination station I got set up :D I haven’t planted anything today, but I’m probably going to start germinating some seeds here tomorrow, because I stocked up for spring!

My garden balsam is really doing well, it just sprouted its second set of leaves. The purple opal and sweet basil I planted a little while ago just germinated the other day, which was really exciting! They’re so cute, and they’re doing so so well. Really proud of them, because we had a lot of flooding and I was scared they wouldn’t make it even with my effort of rushing out to the balcony to grab them as soon as I realized it was raining!

Anyways, probably going to start posting a bit more again, just needed a little bit of a full-time break from social media, as you could probably tell from my last post I’m already not too big a user of it haha!

- Basil 🌸

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All six apple seeds germinated, so I put them in some soil. This is my first time growing apples, and I'm pretty excited to see what I get. I don't expect them all to survive or bear fruit since I got these seeds from grocery store apples. But there's only one way to find out.