Yesterday, leeks, onions and chives were planted in flats.
After carefully spreading the seeds evenly on a flat (400-500 seeds per flat), a thin layer of soil is then gently rained onto the flat to cover the seeds.
Each flat is then "dunked" to saturate the soil with water. The flat is gently held to float for a minute or two until it almost sinks, an indication that the soil has absorbed a lot of water. It's important to make sure that water is not coming over the top of the flats as the seeds would otherwise get washed and uncovered.
Flats were placed on top of a warm compost pile
and then gently watered with a fogger.
Our first three flats were then covered with a small hoop house. Temperature will be monitored to make sure the flats don't get too hot.
All our plants are doing well. Several bags of greens were harvested yesterday.
Organic donuts courtesy of Whoo's Donuts. Thanks Tia for the delivery!
NEXT GARDEN PARTY
Sat. Feb. 25
1:00-4:00pm
No comments:
Post a Comment