Experiment! If you eat something and like it, save the seeds, dry them out, and try to plant them.Use something to indicate which seedlings are which. Once you transplant the mold should go away. It seems to work to keep the mold from spreading. I apply a little turmeric powder (a natural antiseptic) with a Q-tip to cover the mold. But it can be a sign of over-watering, so remember to water from the bottom. Mold may appear on your seed starts, and it does not hurt them. Don’t bother with plants that are high-maintenance until you gain more skills. I have a practical philosophy about growing things: pick what you want to grow, try it, and hope it lives. Do improve your practices to improve your yield, but don’t kick yourself over some of your plants’ untimely demise. Some seeds will germinate faster than others, and some will live and some will die, and you may never know exactly why. So if you have a problem, look it up and chances are very high you will find help troubleshooting it. Online gardeners seem to me a particularly helpful and practical lot. And unlike in so many fields of endeavor, the desire to share this knowledge is apparently much stronger than the desire to be a troll or idiot. A lot of it comes from home gardeners who face all the same challenges you do. The Internet is an amazingly helpful source of information about gardening. There is lots of free, helpful information.There is a basic human joy in seeing things grow that transcends culture, geography, class and the cynicism of the contemporary knowledge worker. If you need an emotional pick-me-up, gardening is excellent. Considering those constraints, here are my suggestions for creating your own victory garden. If you want some useful information about plant hardiness zones, take a look at this article from Tree Triage.) I prefer useful plants (edible or otherwise useful) to ornamentals. (Most of my state is Zone 9 - no frost and moderate temperatures. I live in California, where one can grow just about anything. I live in a fairly urban neighborhood, in a house with little outside space, so my growing is mostly limited to pots. So I am writing down my best practices, calculated for those who don’t have any particular talent for growing things. And it’s spring, after all - the time to sow. Now as we face this global COVID pandemic, and the resulting stir-craziness of shelter-in-place orders, growing plants is a therapeutic and interesting project. But as with any project of self-improvement, success is not about being talented so much as setting realistic goals and not lamenting the limits to one’s talent. I have known people who are truly good with plants, and they clearly have some ineffable talent I don’t have. My COVID 19 Victory Garden - tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, and a few bee-attracting flowers I am a technology lover, and agriculture is the first, and most quintessential, technology. So, I figured, anyone the the ability to read and take notes, like me, can certainly grow plants.
#Transplanting seedlings from peat pellets trial
Growing plants is mostly a question of trial and error to find best practices, and many of those practices are older than civilization itself. I decided to change myself from bad-with-plants to OK-with-plants. But last year, I decided I was done with that mind-set.
For most of my life, I have thought myself “bad with plants.” Over the years, I have been able to kill just about any flora with a combination of neglect and ignorance.
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