Rudbeckia germination experiment has…. Results. The first and third picture are of seeds that weren’t stratified, and the second and fourth are of seeds that were cold stratified for about a month. Growth rate seems about equal?
My raised bed is popping! German Queen tomatoes from Walmart, cucumber starts from Home Depot, just 3 of the 14 (14?!?!?!?!) roma tomato seedlings I got from a 6 cell pack at Home Depot, a bunch of peas and carrots I started from seed, all thriving! Also a spaghetti squash seedling and some nasturtium seedlings! I planted green onion seeds in there ages ago but have no idea if thats whats coming up or if its just grass/weeds.
The zucchini bins of eras past. Never have they successfully grown a zucchini but may this year be the first of many zucchini triumphs!!! I found out I can. Start zucchini seedlings WAY earlier than I had been in my zone so hopefully thats’s my breakthrough! Also planted nasturtiums and borage into the bins, fingers crossed they grow in! Some nasturtiums are already starting, but no signs of the borage to my knowledge. Borage is one of those plants I’ve wanted to grow for a long time but have never been successful with.
Also the first bin has 2 more of the 14 (14 YALL!!!!) roma tomato seedlings
I went to my first plant swap and man. It was WILD.
Keep in mind I heard about the plant swap a little over 24 hours before it was happening. I have no plants to exchange, I barely even have seedlings yet. But I do have a bunch of seeds so I decide to roll up and see what I can do.
Its from 2 to 5. I show up at 2:12 and its mostly houseplants. But the local library branch has a tent and they’re letting people check out some gardening books they brought if they have a library card on them!
So I checked out “Seedswap: The gardener’s guide to saving and swapping seeds” by Josie Jeffery!
Woohoo!
(They also told me that if I want the library to set up seed libraries I should email showing interest because a lot of librarians have suggested it but public interest is needed 👀 special reminder to email/contact your local library about adding seed libraries if you haven’t got one already!)
I considered leaving but I decide to hang around and see if anyone else comes around with stuff that’s more my fancy (no disrespect to people who like houseplants but I have a 99% killrate with them and they’re just not my vibe) and
Y’all
I obtained a Boxcar tomato, a Blackberry Lily, a variegated pepper, a hibiscus cutting, loofah seeds, okra seeds, and FOUR (4!!!!) peach tree seedlings!!!
HELLO??????
I spent like 6 bucks total (1 on a peach tree seedling, 5 on the pepper) and the rest was just seed trades (or the peach tree lady just… giving me more peach trees for being nice. Be nice to the elderly you might get peach trees out of it.) I was there for like an hour and a half TOPS.
(I had to pot up the peach tree seedlings myself but this is still a W in my book lets see if they survive)
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