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I'm doing a test with the soil I made. 4 Parts Peat Moss, 1 Part vermiculite. We'll see how it compares to the Jiffy seed starting soil
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Well…. Obvious results already...
The 4 O'Clocks emerged in just 4-5 days with the Jiffy seed starting mix and only 2 from the starting mix I made. Apparently I may need to adjust my soil mix. We'll see how it does as we go forward.
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More 4 OClocks emerged with my soil mix but notice the growth difference with the Jiffy seed starting mix.
I transplanted the 4Oclocks into cups and when I pulled them out of the seed starting cells it was obvious my soil mix was missing something.
Nice root ball with the Jiffy Seed Starting soil vs VERY loose and VERY little roots with mine
THIS IS WHY I TEST THINGS and don't just listen to people on the internet. I saw the soil mix ratios I used on YouTube. That's ok though, I like these challenges and learning new things. Keeps things interesting.
24 4 O Clocks transferred. The 7 on the right are from my soil mixture.
Wow, what a huge difference! And THANK YOU for giving us so much detail on your garden stuff -- it is very helpful for those of us who keep saying (year after year after year ) that SOON we will be starting our OWN garden!
Wow, what a huge difference! And THANK YOU for giving us so much detail on your garden stuff -- it is very helpful for those of us who keep saying (year after year after year ) that SOON we will be starting our OWN garden!
No problem.. Hope you start one soon. What is holding you back?
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Some people recommend adding lime and perlite to the peat moss/vermiculite.
The guy I got the idea from on YouTube didn't, but according to Jiffy... looks like you are right!
THANKS!
"Specially formulated" is just a catchy sales pitch. I didn't add Lime in mine though and the Peat may have been too acidic for the seeds. Makes sense.
No problem.. Hope you start one soon. What is holding you back?
Well, even though I am technically retired now (ha!), through mid-December (as in, 3 months ago), I was still working more than full time (this past fall I taught a double overload and barely had time to breathe!). So last year was insane. This semester my teaching load went WAY down (by choice) so I actually have TIME to think about gardening again (and in the fall it will be the same or an even smaller load, just 1 class). I think this year's gardening project will be to get my front yard heuchera bed back in shape (I LOVE heucheras ) -- it got out of control with weird things growing in it last year and I just had no time to deal with it.
I did get a bit demoralized when the workers who re-did my sewer line in 2020 basically destroyed my OTHER front yard flower/plant bed, including throwing out all the pavers I'd surrounded the large bed with (I had no idea they were going to have to tear up that area of my front lawn or I would have collected all the pavers in advance!). But I do have a big back yard (my lot is 1.29 acres and probably 60% of that is my back yard, with a perimeter of tall trees all around) so I do have plenty of room to plan some veggie beds back there -- it's a Southern exposure and I get full sun for many hours a day (well, when we HAVE sunny days here in New Hampshire, LOL!). I will likely go back through all your threads again and take notes!
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How can I resist that price for a 50 Quart????????
Is that Lowe's or Home Depot or somewhere else? That looks like a great price! I wonder if it would help the heucheras too?
Well, even though I am technically retired now (ha!)
Is that Lowe's or Home Depot or somewhere else? That looks like a great price! I wonder if it would help the heucheras too?
Costco. Congrats on retirement! My Dad was a Professor of Economics and Political Science at a College. His biggest appreciation about retirement was that he didn't have to commute anymore.
Quick update today then a fuller weekly update tomorrow
My Decade old seeds update. I only transplanted a couple of them just because I have enough already and was just doing it for a test. The Chinese 5 Color decided to start germinating yesterday.
So 90% germination rate on the 2013 Dr Martin Carrot Red. 25% on the Chinese 5 Color
9 year old Tomato seeds doing well.
Aces from 2014.
Farmstead from 2014.
I was taking a picture and didn't realize something. See it??
4.83" of rain past 4 weeks but nothing is outside yet. Things are starting to bud though.
Back inside... It's always a nail biter when you chop off the top of a young plant/seedling. But incredible what you see afterwards.. See where I cut the stem off? Look at the new growth on both sides of it now. It will be bushier.
Note I didn't chop off the top on the one on the right.
Tomato seedlings from this....
To this. I should just start them in cups instead of dealing with the transfer
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That's ok though, I like these challenges and learning new things. Keeps things interesting. 
) that SOON we will be starting our OWN garden! 
) -- it got out of control with weird things growing in it last year and I just had no time to deal with it.
