The weather has been quite nice these past few days.
I have seedlings doing their thing in the kitchen. Some of these have their second set of leaves - their true leaves. So I suppose it is time they are put out into the vege beds.
There is pumpkin, zucchini, tomato, capsicum, cantaloupe and sunflowers.
I made my own 'pots' by cutting the local newspaper in half, wrapping the cut paper around a glass and taping it into a cylinder. I then taped the bottom over to make a pot, filled them with potting mix and popped in the seeds. I also wrote a bit of a code on the 'pots' so I would know what I had.
The first lot of seeds were put into my mini greenhouse tray.
It took a few weeks to do the second lot. They went into a disused cat litter tray. I came up with the idea of using a couple of store shopping bags taped together to make a cover for this lot. It worked well I think.
Since the seeds were kept in the kitchen, and we have indoor cats, I had to have all the potting mix covered to keep the cats out. It worked.
Kept under the bench in the east facing kitchen the seeds.....
...have mostly all sprouted and are doing well.
Not everything has come up. Only some of the sunflowers have sprouted and so have some of the cantaloupes. Certainly worth the experiment.
Now to put the bigger ones into the vege beds and hope the snails don't get them.....
