Greeting, Fellow Seedsters and Other Earth-Walking Entities!
Doing it for the first time at the age of Too Many Years, I am thrilled to be sharing this season's first growth since the beginning. I have the opportunity to be tracking some progress week by week and I have somewhere to upload it to. A great place for that, a great place for morale this Hive community.
And so, Lavender came out first. On the Saturday of the previous week, I shared with you my initiative to create some tiny greenhouse-like environments on my urban balcony, since the village garden I talked about yesterday Over Here lies some thirteen miles/twenty kilometres away and I need to start a car and spend one hour travelling in order to just take a look at what's happening there...
...and visiting the balcony is much easier than that, more convenient, so at this point, I am testing some stuff there.
And on Day 9...
The Chocolate Box Sample that I kept inside the room.
But a room with almost no additional heating touching it during the past five days or so.
Well, yeah, the stuff that did develop first was the sample I put into the plastic box but i also kept inside. Where it's warmer. No growth out of the three pots and one box, all covered in nylon stretch foil, not yet. Carrot and more lavender seeds there. But it's perhaps too early. I remember a fellow plant grower here on Hive talking about two to four weeks.
So, nine days only is an exception, isn't it?
Worried about the seeds being too close to the surface and the plants having no good grab at the soil, no solid base to speak of. Look at that one that seems drunk and just sleeping on the floor. Plants usually have enormous power when growing up. If they have firm ground beneath their feet, that is.
And let's suppose it is indeed on the surface. Will it be able to purchase some solid ground on its own?
I shall wait and see. I would help if I knew what the right thing to do was. This time i might not. Next time I will.
Truth be told, when I first saw this green stuff I was not yet sure if that was the lavender or something else that might have been in the soil previously.
It might still be an alien, for all I know. Time shall tell. I shall be tracking its progress.
And, oh, heck! Some of the seeds from the same package are still unplanted. I might have harmed them. I will have to look for a refuge for them in the evening when I get back from some duties elsewhere.
The plants ain't going nowhere. Yet.
Peace and Parsley!
Manol